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And Joachin his son reigned in his stead. </p> <a name="9" id="9"></a><p class="hdg">Jehoiachin's Evil Reign in Judah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_kings/24.htm#6">2 Kings 24:6-9</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most precious vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his uncle king over Juda and Jerusalem. </p> <a name="11" id="11"></a><p class="hdg">Zedekiah King of Judah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_kings/24.htm#18">2 Kings 24:18-20</a>; <a href="../jeremiah/1.htm">Jeremiah 1:1-3</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God, and did not reverence the face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to him from the mouth of the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Re also revolted from king Nabuchodonosor, who had made him swear by God: and he hardened his neck and his heart, from returning to the Lord the God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem. </p> <a name="15" id="15"></a><p class="hdg">The Fall of Jerusalem<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_kings/25.htm">2 Kings 25:1-7</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no compassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for age, but he delivered them all into his hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And all the vessels of the house of the Lord, great and small, and the treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he carried away to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and whatsoever was precious they destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into Babylon, and there served the king and his sons till the reign of the king of Persia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired. </p> <a name="22" id="22"></a><p class="hdg">The Proclamation of Cyrus<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../ezra/1.htm">Ezra 1:1-4</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But in the first year d of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfil the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus king of the Persians who commanded it to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God of heaven given to me, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea: who is there among you of all his people? 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