14:036:011 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when
he began to reign,
and
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
14:036:012 And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the lord his
God,
and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet
speaking
from the mouth of the lord.
14:036:013 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar,
who had made
him
swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened
his
heart
from turning unto the lord God of Israel.
14:036:014 Moreover all the chief of the priests,
and the people,
transgressed
very much after all the abominations of the
heathen;
and polluted the house of the lord which he had
hallowed
in Jerusalem.
14:036:015 And the lord God of their fathers
sent to them by his
messengers,
rising up betimes, and sending; because he had
compassion
on his people, and on his dwelling place:
14:036:016 But they mocked the messengers of God,
and despised his words,
and
misused his prophets, until the wrath of the lord
arose
against
his people, till there was no remedy.
14:036:017 Therefore he brought upon them the king
of the Chaldees, who
slew
their young men with the sword in the house of their
sanctuary,
and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old
man,
or him that stooped for age: he gave them all
into his
hand.
14:036:018 And all the vessels of the house of God,
great and small, and
the
treasures of the house of the lord, and the treasures
of
the
king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
14:036:019 And they burnt the house of God, and brake
down the wall of
Jerusalem,
and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and
destroyed
all the goodly vessels thereof.
14:036:020 And them that had escaped from the sword
carried he away to
Babylon;
where they were servants to him and his sons until
the
reign of the kingdom of Persia:
14:036:021 To fulfil the word of the lord by
the mouth of Jeremiah, until
the
land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as
she lay
desolate
she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
14:036:022 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia, that the word
of
the lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might
be
accomplished,
the lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of
Persia,
that he made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom,
and put it also in writing, saying,


