1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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

2He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to 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

3For through the anger of the Lord it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against 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

4It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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

5So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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6In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread 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

7Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around;) and they went toward the Arabah.

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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 after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

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

9Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.

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

10The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

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

11He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison 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

12Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:

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

13and he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

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

14All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

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

15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

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

16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers 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 broke the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

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

18They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

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

19The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.

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

20They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of the Lord. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.

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

21As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It 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

22A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.

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

23There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.

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1 Kings 7:20, 1 Kings 7:20

24The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

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

25and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of 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

26Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

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27The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of 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 captive: in the seventh year three thousand 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 he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;

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

30in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

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

31It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;

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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 kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

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

33and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually 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 allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion 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