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It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh*year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifthmonth.
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"See, I have appointed you thisdayover the nations and over the kingdoms, To pluck up and to breakdown, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant."
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"For, behold, I am callingall the families of the kingdoms of the north," declares the LORD; "and they will come and they will seteachone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and againstall its wallsroundabout and againstall the cities of Judah.
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"I will pronounce My judgments on them concerningall their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offeredsacrifices to othergods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
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"Now behold, I have made you today as a fortifiedcity and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronzeagainst the wholeland, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests and to the people of the land.