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2 Chronicles 36:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans,  who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.

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Our guilt has been terrible from the days of our ancestors until the present. Because of our iniquities we have been handed over, along with our kings and priests, to the surrounding kings, and to the sword, captivity, plundering, and open shame,  as it is today.


and the Lord has fulfilled it. He has done just what he decreed. Because you people have sinned against the Lord   and have not obeyed him, this thing has happened.


So the Lord kept the disaster in mind and brought it on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all he has done. But we have not obeyed him.


‘For this is what the Lord says: Just as I have brought all this terrible disaster on these people,  so am I about to bring on them all the good I am promising them.


Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.


So he brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.


But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.


I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not prolong your days in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan.


But since our ancestors angered the God of the heavens, he handed them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.


Their bows will cut young men to pieces. They will have no compassion on offspring; they will not look with pity on children.


for Death  has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets, young men from the squares.


Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.


‘Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or  shave his head for them.


This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent Pashhur  son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah  son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah, asking,


Afterwards #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #King Zedekiah of Judah, his officers, and the people #– #those in this city who survive the plague, the sword, and the famine #– #I will hand over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,  to their enemies, yes, to those who intend to take their lives. He will put them to the sword; he won’t spare them or show pity or compassion.”


Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the Chaldeans,  to Babylon’s king Nebuchadnezzar, and he will capture it.


With you I will smash man and woman; with you I will smash the old man and the youth; with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.


“This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants,  fulfilling  all the curses written in the book that they read in the presence of the king of Judah,


So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.


I was angry with my people; I profaned my possession, and I handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.


They will bring a mob against you  to stone you and to cut you to pieces with their swords.


‘Now you, son of man, prophesy, and say, “This is what the Lord God says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt.” You are to proclaim, “A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume,  to flash like lightning.


But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? ” ’ So the people repented and said, ‘As the Lord of Armies decided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.’





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