2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 35:20-26 (NIV) (NWT)
Key Points
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(35:20) 'Necho king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah marched out to meet him in battle'
- (35:23-24) 'Archers shot King Josiah, ... So they ... brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.'
- (36:1) 'the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.'
- (36:2) 'Jehoahaz ... reigned in Jerusalem three months. '
- (36:3-4) 'The king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem... The king of Egypt made Eliakim, a brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim.'
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(36:5) 'Jehoiakim ... reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.'
- (36:6-7) 'Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the Lord and put them in his temple there.'
- (36:8) 'Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.'
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(36:9) 'Jehoiachin ... reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days.'
- (36:10) 'In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon'
- (36:10) 'together with articles of value from the temple of the Lord'
- (36:10) 'he made Jehoiachin’s uncle Zedekiah, king over Judah and Jerusalem.'
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(36:11) 'Zedekiah ... reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.'
- (36:17) 'He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians'
- (36:18) 'He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials.'
- (36:19) 'They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem'