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II Chronicles Chapter 36

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II Chronicles

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After the death of king Uzziah, his son Jotham succeeds him but dies early of a mysterious illness, after which his son Ahaz is installed as ruler. Ahaz begins the construction of the temple and continues the work begun by his father, though his reign is marked by fear and idolatry. The chapter highlights the instability of the kingdom and the importance of faithful leadership.

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(1) Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
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II Chronicles 26:1II Chronicles 33:25II Kings 23:30II Kings 23:31II Kings 23:32II Kings 23:33II Kings 23:34II Kings 23:35II Kings 23:36II Kings 23:37I Chronicles 3:15Jeremiah 22:11

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II Kings 23:30II Kings 23:34

(2) Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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II Kings 23:31II Kings 14:2II Kings 18:2II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 25:1II Chronicles 29:1

(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.
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II Kings 23:33

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I Chronicles 29:7Ezra 8:26Exodus 38:27Matthew 25:20Exodus 38:17II Kings 5:23

(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.
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II Kings 23:34II Kings 23:35I Chronicles 3:15Jeremiah 22:10Jeremiah 22:11Jeremiah 22:12Ezekiel 19:3Ezekiel 19:4

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II Kings 23:34Esther 2:6

(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.
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II Kings 23:36II Kings 23:37Jeremiah 22:13Jeremiah 22:14Jeremiah 22:15Jeremiah 22:16Jeremiah 22:17Jeremiah 22:18Jeremiah 22:19Jeremiah 26:21Jeremiah 26:22Jeremiah 26:23

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II Kings 23:36II Chronicles 20:31I Kings 22:42II Kings 14:2II Kings 18:2II Chronicles 25:1

(6) Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
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II Kings 24:1II Kings 24:2II Kings 24:5II Kings 24:6II Kings 24:13II Kings 24:14II Kings 24:15II Kings 24:16II Kings 24:17II Kings 24:18II Kings 24:19II Kings 24:20

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Jeremiah 52:11Jeremiah 20:4II Kings 25:8II Chronicles 36:7Ezra 2:1Ezra 5:12

(7) Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
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II Kings 24:13Ezra 1:7Ezra 1:8Ezra 1:9Ezra 1:10Ezra 1:11Jeremiah 27:16Jeremiah 27:17Jeremiah 27:18Jeremiah 28:3Daniel 5:2Daniel 5:3

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Ezra 5:14Ezra 2:1Jeremiah 28:3II Kings 24:15Ezra 5:12Esther 2:6

(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.
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II Kings 24:5II Kings 24:6I Chronicles 3:16I Chronicles 3:17Jeremiah 22:24Jeremiah 22:28Matthew 1:11Matthew 1:12

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I Kings 11:41I Kings 14:19II Kings 24:5I Chronicles 29:29II Chronicles 20:34I Kings 14:29

(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.
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II Kings 24:8II Kings 24:9

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II Kings 24:8I Kings 14:21II Kings 8:17II Kings 15:17II Kings 22:1II Kings 23:31

(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.
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II Kings 24:10II Kings 24:11II Kings 24:12II Kings 24:13II Kings 24:14II Kings 24:15II Kings 24:16II Kings 24:17II Kings 25:27II Kings 25:28II Kings 25:29II Kings 25:30

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II Chronicles 36:7Ezra 5:14Jeremiah 28:3Jeremiah 29:3II Samuel 8:10II Chronicles 24:14

(11) Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
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II Kings 24:18II Kings 24:19II Kings 24:20Jeremiah 52:1Jeremiah 52:2Jeremiah 52:3

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II Kings 24:18Jeremiah 52:1II Kings 14:2II Kings 18:2II Kings 23:36II Chronicles 20:31

(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.
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II Chronicles 32:26II Chronicles 33:12II Chronicles 33:19II Chronicles 33:23Exodus 10:3Daniel 5:22Daniel 5:23James 4:10I Peter 5:6Jeremiah 21:1Jeremiah 21:2Jeremiah 21:3

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Jeremiah 28:12Jeremiah 28:5Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:15Jeremiah 38:14Jeremiah 45:1

(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.
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II Kings 24:20Jeremiah 52:2Jeremiah 52:3Ezekiel 17:11Ezekiel 17:12Ezekiel 17:13Ezekiel 17:14Ezekiel 17:15Ezekiel 17:16Ezekiel 17:17Ezekiel 17:18Ezekiel 17:19

(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.
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II Kings 16:10II Kings 16:11II Kings 16:12II Kings 16:13II Kings 16:14II Kings 16:15II Kings 16:16Ezra 9:7Jeremiah 5:5Jeremiah 37:13Jeremiah 37:14Jeremiah 37:15

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II Chronicles 28:3

(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:
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II Chronicles 24:18II Chronicles 24:19II Chronicles 24:20II Chronicles 24:21II Chronicles 33:10II Kings 17:13Jeremiah 25:3Jeremiah 25:4Jeremiah 26:5Jeremiah 35:15Jeremiah 44:4Jeremiah 44:5

(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.
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II Chronicles 30:10Psalms 35:16Isaiah 28:22Jeremiah 5:12Jeremiah 5:13Jeremiah 20:7Luke 18:32Luke 22:63Luke 22:64Luke 23:11Luke 23:36Acts 2:13

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I Samuel 19:20

(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.
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II Chronicles 33:11Deuteronomy 28:49II Kings 24:2II Kings 24:3Ezra 9:7Jeremiah 15:8Jeremiah 32:42Jeremiah 40:3Daniel 9:14II Kings 25:1II Kings 25:2II Kings 25:3

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Deuteronomy 22:6Judges 9:54Numbers 8:8Ruth 2:9I Samuel 25:5I Samuel 25:8

(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.
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II Chronicles 36:7II Chronicles 36:10II Kings 25:13II Kings 25:14II Kings 25:15II Kings 25:16II Kings 25:17Jeremiah 27:18Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 27:20Jeremiah 27:21Jeremiah 27:22

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II Kings 24:13Jeremiah 39:3Isaiah 22:24I Kings 14:26I Kings 15:18I Chronicles 26:20

(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.
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II Kings 25:9Psalms 74:4Psalms 74:5Psalms 74:6Psalms 74:7Psalms 74:8Psalms 79:1Psalms 79:7Isaiah 64:10Isaiah 64:11Jeremiah 7:4Jeremiah 7:14

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II Chronicles 26:6II Samuel 8:10II Chronicles 24:14Isaiah 22:24

(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:
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Deuteronomy 28:47Deuteronomy 28:48Jeremiah 27:7II Chronicles 36:22Ezra 1:1Ezra 1:2Ezra 1:3Ezra 1:4Ezra 1:5Ezra 1:6Ezra 1:7Ezra 1:8

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II Kings 24:15Ezra 2:1Esther 2:6II Chronicles 36:7Ezra 5:12Nehemiah 7:6

(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.
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Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:12Jeremiah 26:6Jeremiah 26:7Jeremiah 27:12Jeremiah 27:13Jeremiah 29:10Daniel 9:2Zechariah 1:4Zechariah 1:5Zechariah 1:6Leviticus 25:4

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Leviticus 26:34Zechariah 1:12Exodus 16:23Ezekiel 33:28Ezekiel 36:34Leviticus 26:35

(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,
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Ezra 1:1Ezra 1:2Ezra 1:3Isaiah 44:28Daniel 10:1II Chronicles 36:21Jeremiah 25:12Jeremiah 25:14Jeremiah 29:10Jeremiah 32:42Jeremiah 32:43Jeremiah 32:44

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Ezra 1:1Ezra 4:5II Chronicles 36:23Ezra 1:2Ezra 1:8Ezra 3:7

(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.
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Psalms 75:5Psalms 75:6Psalms 75:7Daniel 2:21Daniel 2:37Daniel 4:35Daniel 5:18Daniel 5:23Isaiah 44:26Isaiah 44:27Isaiah 44:28I Chronicles 22:16

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Ezra 1:2Ezra 4:3II Chronicles 36:22Ezra 1:1Ezra 5:13Ezra 4:5

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