1Zedekiah was a son of twenty-one years when he first began to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.

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2 Kings 24:18, Joshua 10:29, 2 Kings 24:18, Joshua 10:29, 2 Chronicles 36:11

2And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, in accord with all that Jehoiakim had done.

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1 Kings 14:22, 1 Kings 14:22, Jeremiah 26:21, Jeremiah 26:23, Jeremiah 36:29

3And so the fury of the Lord was toward Jerusalem, and toward Judah, even until he cast them away from his face. And Zedekiah drew away from the king of Babylon.

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2 Chronicles 36:13, Isaiah 3:4, Isaiah 3:5, Isaiah 3:1, 2 Chronicles 36:13

4And it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, he and his entire army, came against Jerusalem. And they besieged it, and they built fortifications against it, on every side.

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Jeremiah 39:1, Jeremiah 39:1, Zechariah 8:19, Ezekiel 24:1, Ezekiel 24:2

5And the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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6Then, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, a famine gripped the city. And there was no nourishment for the people of the land.

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Jeremiah 39:2, Isaiah 3:1, Jeremiah 39:2, Isaiah 3:1, 2 Kings 25:3

7And the city was broken, and all the men of war fled, and they departed from the city at night by way of the gate which is between the two walls, and which leads to the king’s garden, while the Chaldeans were besieging the city all around, and they went away by the road that leads to the wilderness.

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Jeremiah 51:32, Jeremiah 39:4, Jeremiah 39:7, 2 Kings 25:4, Jeremiah 51:32

8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king. And they overtook Zedekiah in the desert which is near Jericho. And all of his companions fled away from him.

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Jeremiah 34:21, Jeremiah 38:23, Jeremiah 32:4, Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 34:21

9And when they had captured the king, they led him away to the king of Babylon at Riblah, which is in the land of Hamath. And he spoke a judgment against him.

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Jeremiah 39:5, Numbers 13:21, Jeremiah 39:5, Numbers 13:21, Joshua 13:5

10And the king of Babylon cut the throats of the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the leaders of Judah at Riblah.

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Jeremiah 22:30, Jeremiah 22:30, 2 Kings 25:7, 2 Kings 25:7, 2 Kings 25:18

11And he plucked out the eyes of Zedekiah, and he bound him with shackles, and the king of Babylon led him away to Babylon, and he placed him in the prison house, even until the day of his death.

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Ezekiel 12:13, Ezekiel 12:13, Jeremiah 34:3, Jeremiah 34:5, Jeremiah 34:3

12Then, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, which is the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, arrived. And he was standing before the king of Babylon at Jerusalem.

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2 Kings 25:8, 2 Kings 25:8, Zechariah 8:19, Jeremiah 39:9, Jeremiah 52:29

13And he set fire to the house of the Lord, and to the house of the king, and to all the houses of Jerusalem. And every great house he burned with fire.

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Micah 3:12, Psalms 79:1, 2 Chronicles 36:19, Micah 3:12, Psalms 79:1

14And the entire army of the Chaldeans, who were with the chief of the military, destroyed the entire wall all around Jerusalem.

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Nehemiah 1:3, Nehemiah 1:3, 2 Kings 25:10, 2 Kings 25:10

15Then Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, took away some of the poor people, and some of the rest of the common people, who had remained in the city, and some of the fugitives, who had fled over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

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Zechariah 14:2, Jeremiah 15:1, Jeremiah 15:2, Zechariah 14:2, Jeremiah 15:1

16Yet truly, some of the poor of the land, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, left behind as vinedressers and farmers.

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2 Kings 25:12, 2 Kings 25:12, Ezekiel 33:24, Jeremiah 40:5, Jeremiah 40:7

17The Chaldeans also broke apart the bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was in the house of the Lord. And they took all the brass of these things to Babylon.

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Jeremiah 27:19, Jeremiah 27:22, Jeremiah 27:19, Jeremiah 27:22, 2 Chronicles 4:12

18And they took the cooking pots, and the hooks, and the psalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all the bronze vessels that had been used in the ministry.

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Exodus 27:3, Numbers 4:14, 1 Kings 7:45, Exodus 27:3, Numbers 4:14

19And the chief of the military took the water pots, and the censers, and the pitchers, and the basins, and the lampstands, and the mortars, and the little cups, whatever was gold, for the gold, and whatever was silver, for the silver,

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1 Kings 7:49, 1 Kings 7:50, 1 Kings 7:49, 1 Kings 7:50, Exodus 25:31

20as well as the two pillars, and the one brass sea, and the twelve oxen of brass that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord. There was no weight of brass left behind out of all these vessels.

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1 Kings 7:47, 1 Kings 7:47, 2 Kings 25:16, 2 Kings 25:16, 1 Chronicles 22:14

21Now concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a cord of twelve cubits encircled it. Moreover, its thickness was four fingers, and the interior was hollow.

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2 Kings 25:17, 2 Kings 25:17, 1 Kings 7:15, 1 Kings 7:21, 2 Chronicles 3:15

22And heads of brass were upon both. And the height of one head was five cubits. And little nets with pomegranates were upon the heads all around, all of brass. The second pillar was similar, and the pomegranates.

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Exodus 39:15, Exodus 39:18, Exodus 28:14, Exodus 28:22, 2 Kings 25:17

23And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down; and there were one hundred pomegranates in all, surrounded by the little nets.

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1 Kings 7:20, 1 Kings 7:20

24And the chief of the military took Seraiah, the first priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three keepers of the vestibule.

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2 Kings 25:18, 2 Kings 25:18, Jeremiah 35:4, Jeremiah 37:3, Jeremiah 29:25

25He also took from the city one eunuch who was in charge of the men of war, and seven men among those who served before the face of the king, who were found in the city, and a scribe, a leader of the military, who tested the new recruits, and sixty men from the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

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2 Kings 25:19, 2 Kings 25:19, Esther 1:14, Esther 1:14, Matthew 18:10

26Then Nebuzaradan, the chief of the military, took them, and he led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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27And the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah, in the land of Hamath. And Judah was carried away from his land.

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Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:11, Isaiah 27:10, Isaiah 6:11, Isaiah 6:12

28This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

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2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 24:3, Daniel 1:1, Daniel 1:3, 2 Kings 24:12

29in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred thirty-two souls from Jerusalem;

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Genesis 12:5, Jeremiah 52:12, Genesis 12:5, Jeremiah 52:12, 2 Chronicles 36:20

30in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the chief of the military, carried away of the Jews seven hundred forty-five souls. Therefore, all the souls were four thousand six hundred.

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Jeremiah 52:15, Jeremiah 6:9, Jeremiah 52:15, Jeremiah 6:9

31And it happened that, in the thirty-seventh year of the transmigration of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evilmerodach, the king of Babylon, in the very first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and he brought him out of the prison house.

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2 Kings 25:27, 2 Kings 25:30, 2 Kings 25:27, 2 Kings 25:30, Psalms 3:3

32And he spoke with him for good, and he set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were after him in Babylon.

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Proverbs 12:25, Proverbs 12:25, Daniel 5:18, Daniel 5:19, Jeremiah 27:6

33And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread in his sight always, all the days of his life.

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2 Samuel 9:7, 2 Samuel 9:7, Genesis 41:42, 2 Samuel 9:13, Genesis 41:14

34And for his meals, a continual provision was allotted to him by the king of Babylon, a measure for every single day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

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2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Samuel 9:10, Matthew 6:11, Luke 11:3, Matthew 6:11