2 Kings 20:17-18
Good News Translation
17 (A)a time is coming when everything in your palace, everything that your ancestors have stored up to this day, will be carried off to Babylonia. Nothing will be left. 18 (B)Some of your own direct descendants will be taken away and made eunuchs to serve in the palace of the king of Babylonia.”
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2 Kings 20:17-18
New International Version
17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon.(A) Nothing will be left, says the Lord. 18 And some of your descendants,(B) your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”(C)
2 Chronicles 36:10
Good News Translation
10 (A)When spring came, King Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylonia as a prisoner and carried off the treasures of the Temple. Then Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiachin's uncle[a] Zedekiah king of Judah and Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 36:10 Some ancient translations (and see 2 K 24.17) uncle; Hebrew brother.
2 Chronicles 36:10
New International Version
10 In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon,(A) together with articles of value from the temple of the Lord, and he made Jehoiachin’s uncle,[a] Zedekiah, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 36:10 Hebrew brother, that is, relative (see 2 Kings 24:17)
Isaiah 39:7-8
Good News Translation
7 (A)Some of your own direct descendants will be taken away and made eunuchs to serve in the palace of the king of Babylonia.”
8 King Hezekiah understood this to mean that there would be peace and security during his lifetime, so he replied, “The message you have given me from the Lord is good.”
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Isaiah 39:7-8
New International Version
7 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.(A)”
8 “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,(B)” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.(C)”
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