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But the things that are reported about Jehoiakim and his uncleanness and impiety are written in the chronicles of the kings.
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Jehoiachin his son became king in his stead; 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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So after a year 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 Jeremiah the prophet from the mouth of the Lord.
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And though King Nebuchadnezzar had made him swear by the name of the Lord, he broke his oath and rebelled; and 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 which had been hallowed in Jerusalem.
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So the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he would have spared them and his dwelling place.
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But they mocked his messengers, and whenever the Lord spoke, they scoffed at his prophets,
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until in his anger against his people because of their ungodly acts he gave command to bring against them the kings of the Chaldeans.