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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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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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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:10 Some ancient translations (and see 2 K 24.17) uncle; Hebrew brother.

(A)Some of your own direct descendants will be taken away and made eunuchs to serve in the palace of the king of Babylonia.”

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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