1 Esdras 1:52-58

52 until in his anger against his people because of their ungodly acts he gave command to bring against them the kings of the Chaldeans.

53 These slew their young men with the sword around their holy temple, and did not spare young man or virgin, old man or child, for he gave them all into their hands.

54 And all the holy vessels of the Lord, great and small, and the treasure chests of the Lord, and the royal stores, they took and carried away to Babylon.

55 And they burned the house of the Lord and broke down the walls of Jerusalem and burned their towers with fire,

56 and utterly destroyed all its glorious things. The survivors he led away to Babylon with the sword,

57 and they were servants to him and to his sons until the Persians began to reign, in fulfilment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah:

58 "Until the land has enjoyed its sabbaths, it shall keep sabbath all the time of its desolation until the completion of seventy years."

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