2 Chronicles 36:16-18

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¹⁶But they made fun of God’s prophets and refused to listen to them. They hated God’s messages. Finally, the Lord could not hold his anger any longer. He became angry with his people and there was nothing that could be done to stop it. ¹⁷So God brought the king of Babylon to attack the people of Judah and Jerusalem.^[a] The king of Babylon killed the young men even when they were in the Temple. He didn’t have mercy on the people of Judah and Jerusalem. The king of Babylon killed young and old people. He killed men and women. He killed sick and healthy people. God permitted Nebuchadnezzar to punish the people of Judah and Jerusalem. ¹⁸Nebuchadnezzar carried all the things in God’s Temple away to Babylon. He took all the valuable things from the Lord’s Temple, from the king, and from the king’s officials.

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 36:17 This happened in the year 586 B.C., when Jerusalem was finally destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar from Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:16-18

New International Version

¹⁶But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed^(A) at his prophets until the wrath^(B) of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.^(C) ¹⁷He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,^[a]^(D) who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men^(E) or young women, the elderly or the infirm.^(F) God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.^(G) ¹⁸He carried to Babylon all the articles^(H) 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.