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King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up against him; he bound him with a chain of bronze and took him away to Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar also took some holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and stored them in his temple in Babylon.
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But the things that are reported about Jehoiakim, and his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the annals of the kings.
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His son Jehoiachin became king in his place; when he was made king he was eighteen years old,
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and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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A year later Nebuchadnezzar sent and removed him to Babylon, with the holy vessels of the Lord,
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and made Zedekiah king of Judea and Jerusalem. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old, and he reigned eleven years.
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He also did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not heed the words that were spoken by the prophet Jeremiah from the mouth of the Lord.
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Although King Nebuchadnezzar had made him swear by the name of the Lord, he broke his oath and rebelled; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart and transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Even the leaders of the people and of the priests committed many acts of sacrilege and lawlessness beyond all the unclean deeds of all the nations, and polluted the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem—the temple that God had made holy.
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The God of their ancestors sent his messenger to call them back, because he would have spared them and his dwelling place.