Chapters
2 Chronicles (36 chapters)
2 Chronicles 36
1
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him
king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
2
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in
an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his
brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5
Jehoiakim was
twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven
years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
his God.
6
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
7
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did,
and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
9
Jehoiachin was eight
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten
days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD.
10
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to
Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his
brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem.
12
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and
humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of
the LORD.
13
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear
by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto
the LORD God of Israel.
14
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very
much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of
the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising
up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his
dwelling place:
16
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused
his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
17
Therefore he brought
upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary,
and had no compassion
upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all
into his hand.
18
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of
his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and
burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly
vessels thereof.
20
And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where
they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of
Persia:
21
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land
had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath,
to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD
spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up
the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout
all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
23
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the
LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in
Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people?
The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.