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These killed their young men with the sword around their holy temple, and did not spare young man or young woman, old man or child, for he gave them all into their hands.
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They took all the holy vessels of the Lord, great and small, the treasure chests of the Lord, and the royal stores, and carried them away to Babylon.
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They burned the house of the Lord, broke down the walls of Jerusalem, burned their towers with fire,
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and utterly destroyed all its glorious things. The survivors he led away to Babylon with the sword,
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and they were servants to him and to his sons until the Persians began to reign, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,
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saying, "Until the land has enjoyed its sabbaths, it shall keep sabbath all the time of its desolation until the completion of seventy years."