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Zedekiah Reigns in Judah

11 aZedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.  
12 He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and adid not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.  
13 And he also arebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God; but he bstiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord God of Israel.  
14 Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the Lord which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

The Fall of Jerusalem

15 aAnd the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.  
16 But athey mocked the messengers of God, bdespised His words, and cscoffed at His prophets, until the dwrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.  
17 aTherefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who bkilled their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.  
18 aAnd all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon.  
19 aThen they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.  
20 And athose who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, bwhere they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,  
21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of aJeremiah, until the land bhad enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate cshe kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.  

The Proclamation of Cyrus

22 aNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of bJeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of cCyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying, 
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I & II Chronicles

THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF CHRONICLES were also considered as one by the ancient Jews, who called them "words of days," that is, diaries or journals, being probably compiled from those registers that were kept by the king's historiographers of passing occurrences. In the Septuagint the title given them is Paraleipomenon, "of things omitted," that is, the books are supplementary because many things unnoticed in the former books are here recorded; and not only the omissions are supplied, but some narratives extended while others are added. The authorship is commonly ascribed to Ezra, whose leading object seems to have been to show the division of families, possessions, etc., before the captivity, with a view to the exact restoration of the same order after the return from Babylon. Although many things are restated and others are exact repetitions of what is contained in Kings, there is so much new and important information that, as JEROME has well said, the Chronicles furnish the means of comprehending parts of the New Testament, which must have been unintelligible without them. They are frequently referred to by Christ and the Apostles as forming part of "the Word of God" (see the genealogies in Mat. 1:1-16; Luk. 3:23-38; compare II Chronicles 19:7 with I Peter 1:17; II Chronicles 24:19-21 with Matthew 23:32-35).

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