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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Chronicles 36</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/36.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//2_chronicles/36-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/2_chronicles/">2 Chronicles</a> > 2 Chronicles 36</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/35.htm" title="2 Chronicles 35">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 36 <a href="../ezra/1.htm" title="Ezra 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/36.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/36.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/36.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/36.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/2_chronicles/36.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/36.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/2_chronicles/36.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jehoahaz Succeeds Josiah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/23.htm#31">2 Kings 23:31–35</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father. <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Jehoahaz<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and a talent of gold.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt. <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/23.htm#36">2 Kings 23:36–37</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> in Babylon. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Jehoiachin Reigns in Judah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/24.htm#6">2 Kings 24:6–9</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Jehoiachin was eighteen<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In the spring,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem. <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">Zedekiah Reigns in Judah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/24.htm#18">2 Kings 24:18–20</a>; <a href ="../jeremiah/52.htm">Jeremiah 52:1–3</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">The Fall of Jerusalem<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/25.htm">2 Kings 25:1–7</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Again and again<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">i</a></span> the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">j</a></span> who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">k</a></span> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">The Proclamation of Cyrus<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../ezra/1.htm">Ezra 1:1–4</a>; <a href ="../isaiah/45.htm">Isaiah 45:1–25</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: <p class="tab1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: <p class="tab1stline">‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. <p class="tab1stline"> Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’<span class="thinq"> </span>”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>Joahaz</i><span class="thin"> </span>, a variant of <i>Jehoahaz</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 4<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>100 talents</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 3.77 tons or 3.42 metric tons of silver.<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>A talent</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 75.4 pounds or 34.2 kilograms of gold.<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>palace</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> One Hebrew manuscript, some LXX manuscripts, and Syriac (see also <a href="../2_kings/24.htm#8">2 Kings 24:8</a>); most Hebrew manuscripts <i>eight</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> Literally <i>At the turn of the year</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> Or <i>brother</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>uncle</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> Or <i>made strong</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>made courageous</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">i</span> Literally <i>Rising up early and sending (it),</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">j</span> That is, the Babylonians; also clarified in verse 19<br><span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotesbot">k</span> See <a href="../jeremiah/25.htm#12">Jeremiah 25:12</a> and <a href="../jeremiah/29.htm#10">Jeremiah 29:10</a>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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