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Five and twenty years old was Jehoiakim when he was made king in the land of Judea and Jerusalem; and he did evil before the Lord.
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Therefore against him Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass and carried him into Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away and set them in his own temple at Babylon.
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But those things that are recorded of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.
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And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. He was made king, being eighteen years old,
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and reigned but three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and did evil before the Lord.
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So after a year Nebuchadnezzar sent and caused him to be brought into Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord,
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and made Zedekiah king of Judea and Jerusalem when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years.
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And he also did evil in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremiah from the mouth of the Lord.
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And after King Nebuchadnezzar had made him swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself and rebelled; and, hardening his neck and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.
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The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws, and surpassed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord which was sanctified in Jerusalem.