2 Kings 25:1 English Standard Version
Fall and Captivity of Judah
25 (A)And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, (B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. (C)And they built siegeworks all around it.
Read full chapterJeremiah 52:4-11 English Standard Version
4 (A)And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. 5 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. 10 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at (B)Riblah. 11 (C)He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison (D)till the day of his death.
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Jeremiah 43:10 English Standard Version
10 and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (A)my servant, (B)and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.
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Jeremiah 34:1-6 English Standard Version
Zedekiah to Die in Babylon
34 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when (A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army (B)and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities: 2 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go and speak to (C)Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: (D)Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. 3 (E)You shall not escape from his hand but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand. (F)You shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face. And you shall go to Babylon.’ 4 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah! (G)Thus says the Lord concerning you: (H)‘You shall not die by the sword. 5 You shall die in peace. (I)And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall (J)burn spices for you (K)and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, declares the Lord.”
6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
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- Jeremiah 34:1 : ch. 39:1; 52:4; 2 Kgs. 25:1
- Jeremiah 34:1 : ch. 1:15; [ch. 51:28]
- Jeremiah 34:2 : 2 Kgs. 25:2
- Jeremiah 34:2 : See ch. 21:10
- Jeremiah 34:3 : See ch. 32:4
- Jeremiah 34:3 : See ch. 32:4
- Jeremiah 34:4 : [ch. 38:17, 20; 39:4, 7]
- Jeremiah 34:4 : [ch. 38:17, 20; 39:4, 7]
- Jeremiah 34:5 : 1 Sam. 31:12; 2 Chr. 21:19
- Jeremiah 34:5 : 2 Chr. 16:14
- Jeremiah 34:5 : [ch. 22:18]
Isaiah 29:3 English Standard Version
3 (A)And I will encamp against you all around,
and will besiege you (B)with towers
and I will raise siegeworks against you.
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1 Chronicles 6:15 English Standard Version
15 and (A)Jehozadak went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile (B)by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
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Luke 19:43-44 English Standard Version
43 For (A)the days will come upon you, when your enemies (B)will set up a barricade around you and (C)surround you and hem you in on every side 44 (D)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (E)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (F)the time of your (G)visitation.”
Read full chapterDaniel 4:1-18 English Standard Version
Nebuchadnezzar Praises God
4 [a] King Nebuchadnezzar to all (A)peoples, nations, and languages, (B)that dwell in all the earth: (C)Peace be multiplied to you! 2 It has seemed good to me to show the (D)signs and wonders that the (E)Most High God has done for me.
3 How great are (F)his signs,
how mighty his (G)wonders!
(H)His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
(I)and his dominion endures from generation to generation.
Nebuchadnezzar's Second Dream
4 [b] I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. 5 I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and (J)the visions of my head alarmed me. 6 So (K)I made a decree that (L)all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then (M)the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but (N)they could not make known to me its interpretation. 8 At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named (O)Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is (P)the spirit of the holy gods[c]—and I told him the dream, saying, 9 “O Belteshazzar, (Q)chief of the magicians, because I know that (R)the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no (S)mystery is too difficult for you, tell me (T)the visions of my dream that I saw and their interpretation. 10 (U)The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and (V)behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great. 11 (W)The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. 12 (X)Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. (Y)The beasts of the field found shade under it, and (Z)the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.
13 “I saw in (AA)the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, (AB)a watcher, (AC)a holy one, came down from heaven. 14 He (AD)proclaimed aloud and said thus: (AE)‘Chop down the tree and (AF)lop off its branches, (AG)strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. (AH)Let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches. 15 But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven. Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth. 16 Let his mind be changed from a man's, and let a beast's mind be given to him; (AI)and let seven periods of time (AJ)pass over him. 17 The sentence is by the decree of (AK)the watchers, the decision by the word of (AL)the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High (AM)rules the kingdom of men (AN)and gives it to whom he will and (AO)sets over it the lowliest of men.’ 18 This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O (AP)Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because (AQ)all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for (AR)the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”
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- Daniel 4:1 Ch 3:31 in Aramaic
- Daniel 4:4 Ch 4:1 in Aramaic
- Daniel 4:8 Or Spirit of the holy God; also verses 9, 18
Cross references
- Daniel 4:1 : See ch. 3:4
- Daniel 4:1 : ch. 6:25
- Daniel 4:1 : 1 Pet. 1:2; 2 Pet. 1:2
- Daniel 4:2 : ch. 6:27; [John 4:48]
- Daniel 4:2 : ch. 3:26
- Daniel 4:3 : [See ver. 2 above]; ch. 6:27; [John 4:48]
- Daniel 4:3 : [See ver. 2 above]; ch. 6:27; [John 4:48]
- Daniel 4:3 : See ch. 2:44
- Daniel 4:3 : See ch. 2:44
- Daniel 4:5 : ch. 2:28; 7:15
- Daniel 4:6 : See ch. 3:10
- Daniel 4:6 : ch. 2:12
- Daniel 4:7 : See ch. 2:2
- Daniel 4:7 : [ver. 18; ch. 2:27; 5:8, 15]
- Daniel 4:8 : See ch. 1:7
- Daniel 4:8 : ver. 18; ch. 2:11; 5:11; Gen. 41:38; [Isa. 63:14]
- Daniel 4:9 : ch. 5:11; [ch. 2:48]
- Daniel 4:9 : [See ver. 8 above]; ver. 18; ch. 2:11; 5:11; Gen. 41:38; [Isa. 63:14]
- Daniel 4:9 : ch. 2:18
- Daniel 4:9 : [See ver. 5 above]; ch. 2:28; 7:15
- Daniel 4:10 : [See ver. 5 above]; ch. 2:28; 7:15
- Daniel 4:10 : [Ezek. 31:3]
- Daniel 4:11 : [Ps. 37:35]
- Daniel 4:12 : Ezek. 31:7
- Daniel 4:12 : Ezek. 31:6
- Daniel 4:12 : Ezek. 31:6
- Daniel 4:13 : [See ver. 5 above]; ch. 2:28; 7:15
- Daniel 4:13 : ver. 23
- Daniel 4:13 : [Deut. 33:2; Zech. 14:5; Jude 14]
- Daniel 4:14 : See ch. 3:4
- Daniel 4:14 : ver. 23; [Matt. 3:10; Luke 3:9]
- Daniel 4:14 : [Ezek. 31:12]
- Daniel 4:14 : [Ezek. 31:12]
- Daniel 4:14 : [Ezek. 31:12]
- Daniel 4:16 : [ver. 23, 25]
- Daniel 4:16 : [1 Chr. 29:30]
- Daniel 4:17 : [See ver. 13 above]; ver. 23
- Daniel 4:17 : [See ver. 13 above]; [Deut. 33:2; Zech. 14:5; Jude 14]
- Daniel 4:17 : ver. 25, 32; ch. 5:21
- Daniel 4:17 : Jer. 27:5
- Daniel 4:17 : See 1 Sam. 2:8
- Daniel 4:18 : See ch. 1:7
- Daniel 4:18 : [ver. 7; ch. 5:8, 15; Gen. 41:8]
- Daniel 4:18 : See ver. 8
Ezekiel 26:7 English Standard Version
7 “For thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I will bring against Tyre (B)from the north Nebuchadnezzar[a] king of Babylon, (C)king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.
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- Ezekiel 26:7 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar; so throughout Ezekiel
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Ezekiel 24:1-14 English Standard Version
The Siege of Jerusalem
24 (A)In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 (B)“Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. 3 And (C)utter a parable to (D)the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord God:
“Set on (E)the pot, set it on;
pour in water also;
4 put in it the pieces of meat,
all the good pieces, (F)the thigh and the shoulder;
fill it with choice bones.
5 Take the choicest one of the flock;
pile the logs[a] under it;
boil it well;
seethe also its bones in it.
6 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: (G)Woe to the bloody city, to (H)the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.[b] 7 For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on (I)the bare rock; (J)she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust. 8 To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered. 9 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! (K)I also will make the pile great. 10 Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices,[c] and let the bones be burned up. 11 Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, (L)that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed. 12 (M)She has wearied herself with toil;[d] its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion! 13 On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, (N)you shall not be cleansed anymore till (O)I have satisfied my fury upon you. 14 (P)I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; (Q)I will not spare; (R)I will not relent; (S)according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God.”
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- Ezekiel 24:5 Compare verse 10; Hebrew the bones
- Ezekiel 24:6 Hebrew no lot has fallen upon it
- Ezekiel 24:10 Or empty out the broth
- Ezekiel 24:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Cross references
- Ezekiel 24:1 : See ch. 20:1
- Ezekiel 24:2 : See ch. 2:1
- Ezekiel 24:3 : [ch. 17:2; 20:49]
- Ezekiel 24:3 : See ch. 2:5
- Ezekiel 24:3 : ch. 11:3, 7, 11; 2 Kgs. 4:38
- Ezekiel 24:4 : See 1 Sam. 9:24
- Ezekiel 24:6 : ch. 22:2; [Nah. 3:1]
- Ezekiel 24:6 : [See ver. 3 above]; ch. 11:3, 7, 11; 2 Kgs. 4:38
- Ezekiel 24:7 : ch. 26:4, 14
- Ezekiel 24:7 : [Lev. 17:13; Deut. 12:16, 24]
- Ezekiel 24:9 : Isa. 30:33
- Ezekiel 24:11 : ch. 22:15
- Ezekiel 24:12 : [Jer. 2:22]
- Ezekiel 24:13 : Isa. 22:14
- Ezekiel 24:13 : See ch. 5:13
- Ezekiel 24:14 : See ch. 17:24
- Ezekiel 24:14 : See ch. 5:11
- Ezekiel 24:14 : [Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 15:29]
- Ezekiel 24:14 : [ch. 20:43; 23:45]
Ezekiel 21:22-24 English Standard Version
22 Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, (A)to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, (B)to cast up mounds, to build siege towers. 23 But to them it will seem like a false divination. (C)They have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, (D)that they may be taken.
24 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, (E)you shall be taken in hand.
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Ezekiel 4:1-8 English Standard Version
The Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized
4 “And you, (A)son of man, (B)take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. 2 (C)And put siegeworks against it, (D)and build a siege wall against it, (E)and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, (F)and plant battering rams against it all around. 3 And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; (G)and set your face toward it, (H)and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is (I)a sign for the house of Israel.
4 “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment[a] of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, (J)you shall bear their punishment. 5 For I assign to you a number of days, (K)390 days, (L)equal to the number of the years of their punishment. (M)So long shall you bear (N)the punishment of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and (O)bear (P)the punishment of the house of Judah. (Q)Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. 7 (R)And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, (S)with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. 8 And behold, (T)I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed (U)the days of your siege.
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- Ezekiel 4:4 Or iniquity; also verses 5, 6, 17
Cross references
- Ezekiel 4:1 : See ch. 2:1
- Ezekiel 4:1 : [ver. 3; Jer. 13:1, 2]
- Ezekiel 4:2 : [2 Kgs. 25:1]
- Ezekiel 4:2 : ch. 17:17; 21:22; 26:8
- Ezekiel 4:2 : Luke 19:43
- Ezekiel 4:2 : ch. 21:22; 26:9
- Ezekiel 4:3 : See ch. 21:2
- Ezekiel 4:3 : [Isa. 29:3]
- Ezekiel 4:3 : ch. 12:6, 11; 24:24, 27; [Isa. 8:18; 20:3]
- Ezekiel 4:4 : ch. 44:10, 12; [Lev. 16:22; Isa. 53:11, 12]
- Ezekiel 4:5 : ver. 9
- Ezekiel 4:5 : [Num. 14:34]
- Ezekiel 4:5 : [See ver. 4 above]; ch. 44:10, 12; [Lev. 16:22; Isa. 53:11, 12]
- Ezekiel 4:5 : [ch. 23:4, 9, 10]
- Ezekiel 4:6 : ch. 44:10, 12; [Lev. 16:22; Isa. 53:11, 12]
- Ezekiel 4:6 : [ch. 23:11, 12]
- Ezekiel 4:6 : [Num. 14:34]
- Ezekiel 4:7 : See ch. 21:2
- Ezekiel 4:7 : Isa. 52:10
- Ezekiel 4:8 : ch. 3:25
- Ezekiel 4:8 : [ver. 9; ch. 5:2]; See 2 Kgs. 25:1-3; Jer. 39:1, 2; 52:4-6
Jeremiah 51:34 English Standard Version
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon (A)has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
(B)he has swallowed me like (C)a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.[a]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:34 Or he has expelled me
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Jeremiah 39:1-10 English Standard Version
The Fall of Jerusalem
39 (A)In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. 3 Then all (B)the officials of the king of Babylon came (C)and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer of Samgar, Nebu-sar-sekim (D)the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon. 4 When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward (E)the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in (F)the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at (G)Riblah, in the land of Hamath; (H)and he passed sentence on him. 6 The king of Babylon (I)slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at (J)Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon (K)slaughtered all the nobles of Judah. 7 (L)He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon. 8 (M)The Chaldeans burned the king's house and the house of the people, (N)and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. 9 Then (O)Nebuzaradan, the (P)captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, (Q)those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained. 10 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, (R)left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
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- Jeremiah 39:1 : For ver. 1-10, see ch. 52:4-16; 2 Kgs. 25:1-12
- Jeremiah 39:3 : ch. 38:17, 18, 22
- Jeremiah 39:3 : [ch. 1:15]
- Jeremiah 39:3 : ver. 13; 2 Kgs. 18:17
- Jeremiah 39:4 : See Deut. 1:1
- Jeremiah 39:5 : Josh. 5:10
- Jeremiah 39:5 : See 2 Kgs. 23:33
- Jeremiah 39:5 : [Ezek. 17:15]
- Jeremiah 39:6 : ch. 52:10
- Jeremiah 39:6 : [See ver. 5 above]; See 2 Kgs. 23:33
- Jeremiah 39:6 : ch. 52:10
- Jeremiah 39:7 : [ch. 32:4; Ezek. 12:13]
- Jeremiah 39:8 : See ch. 21:10
- Jeremiah 39:8 : Neh. 1:3; [Ps. 80:12; Isa. 5:5]
- Jeremiah 39:9 : ch. 40:1; 52:12; 2 Kgs. 25:8
- Jeremiah 39:9 : Gen. 37:36
- Jeremiah 39:9 : See ch. 37:13
- Jeremiah 39:10 : ch. 40:7; 2 Kgs. 25:12
Jeremiah 32:28 English Standard Version
28 Therefore, thus says the Lord: (A)Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it.
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Jeremiah 32:24 English Standard Version
24 Behold, (A)the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and (B)because of sword and famine and pestilence (C)the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it.
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Jeremiah 27:8 English Standard Version
8 “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, (A)and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation (B)with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand.
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2 Chronicles 36:17-21 English Standard Version
Jerusalem Captured and Burned
17 (A)Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand. 18 (B)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. 19 (C)And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels. 20 He (D)took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, (E)and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had (F)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate (G)it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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- 2 Chronicles 36:17 : For ver. 17-20, see 2 Kgs. 25:1-7; [Deut. 28:49; Ezra 9:7]
- 2 Chronicles 36:18 : 2 Kgs. 25:13-15; [ver. 7, 10]
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 : 2 Kgs. 25:9
- 2 Chronicles 36:20 : 2 Kgs. 25:11
- 2 Chronicles 36:20 : Jer. 27:7
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 : Lev. 26:34, 35, 43; [Dan. 9:2]
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 : [Lev. 25:4, 5]
2 Kings 24:10 English Standard Version
Jerusalem Captured
10 At that time the servants of (A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
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2 Kings 24:1 English Standard Version
24 (A)In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
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