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Harmony of Bible records in Jeremiah’s time
By Mark Morgan | Harmonies
Often the Bible reports events from the same time period in more than one book, and frequently the various books will concentrate on different details but still report overlapping information. This article presents a harmony of Bible records in Jeremiah’s time.
(Last revised 9 January 2020
The Bible passages which record events in the times around the life of Jeremiah are as follows:
The records in Kings and Chronicles interleave very easily, so they are best shown in a table by themselves from the time of Manasseh through to the events immediately after the destruction of Jerusalem. Some small sections of Jeremiah and Ezra are also included in places where they provide detail missing in one of the records.
The kings of Judah referred to in this synchronisation are:
The text is taken from the World English Bible (WEB) which has been released into the public domain.
Manasseh: 2 Kings Chapter 21 |
Manasseh: 2 Chronicles 33:1-19 |
| 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: | 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. |
| and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. | |
| 2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. | 2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. |
| 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, | 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, |
| as did Ahab king of Israel, | |
| and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them. 4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.” | and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them. 4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.” |
| 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house. | 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house. |
| 6 He made his son to pass through the fire, | 6 He also made his children to pass through the fire |
| in the valley of the son of Hinnom; | |
| and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. | and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. |
| 7 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever; | 7 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever: |
| 8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.” | 8 neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Moses.” |
| 9 But they didn’t listen: | |
| and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel. | 9 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel did. |
| 10 Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, | 10 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; |
| saying, 11 “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols; 12 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies; 15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’” | |
| but they gave no heed. | |
| 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. | |
| 11 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God. 14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. 15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 16 He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. 17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God. | |
| 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, | 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, |
| and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, | and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, |
| aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? | behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel. |
| 19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. | |
| 18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, | 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: |
| in the garden of Uzza: | |
| and Amon his son reigned in his place. | and Amon his son reigned in his place. |
Amon: 2 Kings 21:18-26 |
Amon: 2 Chronicles 33:20-25 |
| 19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: | 21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. |
| and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. | |
| 20 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father did. | 22 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; |
| 21 He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them: | and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. |
| 22 and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh. | 23 He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. |
| 23 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house. | 24 His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. |
| 24 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. | 25 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. |
| 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? | |
| 26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his place. | |
Josiah: 2 Kings 22:1-23:30 |
Josiah: 2 Chronicles 34:1-35:26 |
Chapter 22 |
Chapter 34 |
| 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: | 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. |
| and his mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. | |
| 2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left. | 2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left. |
| 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; | |
| and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherah poles, and the engraved images, and the molten images. 4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherah poles, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. | |
| 6 He did this in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins. 7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem. | |
| 3 In the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent | 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent |
| Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, | Shaphan the son of Azaliah, |
| and Maaseiah the governor of the city, | |
| and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, | |
| to Yahweh’s house, | to repair Yahweh’s house his God. |
| saying, 4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people. 5 Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in Yahweh’s house, to repair the breaches of the house, 6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house. | |
| 9 They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and the workmen who labored in Yahweh’s house gave it to mend and repair the house; 11 even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. | |
| 7 However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.” | 12 The men did the work faithfully: |
| and their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and others of the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music. 13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every kind of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters. 14 When they brought out the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house, | |
| 8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” | Hilkiah the priest found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses. 15 Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” |
| Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, | Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. |
| and he read it. | |
| 9 Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house.” | 16 Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, “All that was committed to your servants, they are doing. 17 They have emptied out the money that was found in Yahweh’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.” |
| 10 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me.” Shaphan read it before the king. | 18 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book.” Shaphan read therein before the king. |
| 11 When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. | 19 When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes. |
| 12 The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, | 20 The king commanded Hilkiah, |
| and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, | and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, |
| and Achbor the son of Micaiah, | and Abdon the son of Micah, |
| and Shaphan the scribe, | and Shaphan the scribe, |
| and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, | and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, |
| 13 “Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.” | 21 “Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.” |
| 14 So Hilkiah the priest, | 22 So Hilkiah, |
| and Ahikam, | and they whom the king had commanded, |
| and Achbor, | |
| and Shaphan, | |
| and Asaiah, | |
| went to Huldah the prophetess, | went to Huldah the prophetess, |
| the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, | the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, |
| keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her. | keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect. |
| 15 She said to them, | 23 She said to them, |
| “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: | “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: |
| ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, 16 “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.’” | ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, 24 “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah. 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.’”’ |
| 18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, | 26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, |
| “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: | ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: |
| ‘Concerning the words which you have heard, | “As touching the words which you have heard, |
| 19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, | 27 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, |
| that they should become a desolation and a curse, | |
| and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh. | and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,” says Yahweh. |
| 20 ‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, | 28 “Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, |
| neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” | neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on its inhabitants.”’” |
| They brought back this message to the king. | They brought back word to the king. |
Chapter 23 |
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| 1 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. | 29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. |
| 2 The king went up to Yahweh’s house, | 30 The king went up to Yahweh’s house, |
| and all the men of Judah | and all the men of Judah |
| and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, | and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, |
| and the priests, | and the priests, |
| and the Levites, | |
| and the prophets, | |
| and all the people, both small and great: | and all the people, both great and small: |
| and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in Yahweh’s house. | and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in Yahweh’s house. |
| 3 The king stood by the pillar, | 31 The king stood in his place, |
| and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: | and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. |
| and all the people stood to the covenant. | 32 He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. |
| 4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, | 33 Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. |
| and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5 He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. 6 He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people. 7 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. 8 He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city. 9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. 10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 11 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. 13 The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon. 14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with the bones of men. 15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah. 16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. 17 Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.” 18 He said, “Let him be! Let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. 19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. 20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem. | |
| All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers. | |
Chapter 35 |
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| 21 The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.” | Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: |
| and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of Yahweh’s house. 3 He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. There shall no more be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel. 4 Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. 5 Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites. 6 Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.” 7 Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls: these were of the king’s substance. 8 His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle. 9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock, and five hundred head of cattle. 10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment. 11 They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them. 12 They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. So they did with the cattle. 13 They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. 14 Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. 15 The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters were at every gate: they didn’t need to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them. 16 So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah. 17 The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. | |
| 22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; | 18 There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
| 23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem. | 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept. |
| 24 Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house. 25 Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. 26 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him. 27 Yahweh said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’” 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? | |
| 29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: | 20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: |
| and king Josiah went against him; | and Josiah went out against him. |
| 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.” 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, | |
| and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. | and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 23 The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!” |
| 30 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. | 24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. |
| All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. | |
| 25 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in Yahweh’s law, 27 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. | |
Jehoahaz/Joahaz/Shallum: 2 Kings 23:30-33 |
Jehoahaz/Joahaz/Shallum: 2 Chronicles 36:1-4 |
Chapter 36 |
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| The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place. | 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. |
| 31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: | 2 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. |
| and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. | |
| 32 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done. | |
| 33 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. | 3 The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. |
| 34 [Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim:] but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there. | 4 [The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim.] Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. |
Jehoiakim/Eliakim: 2 Kings 23:34-24:16 |
Jehoiakim/Eliakim: 2 Chronicles 36:5-8 |
| 34 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: | 4 The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. |
| [but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.] | [Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.] |
| 35 Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh. | |
| 36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: | 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: |
| and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. | |
| 37 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done. | and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God. |
Chapter 24 |
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| 1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, | 6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, |
| and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of Yahweh’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. | |
| and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets. 3 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon. | |
| 5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? | 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: |
| 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; | |
Jehoiachin/Jeconiah/Coniah: 2 Kings 24:6-15 |
Jehoiachin/Jeconiah/Coniah: 2 Chronicles 36:8-10 |
| and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. | and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. |
| 7 The king of Egypt didn’t come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt. | |
| 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: | 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: |
| and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. | |
| 9 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done. | and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. |
| 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it; 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. | 10 At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, |
| and brought him to Babylon, | |
| 13 He carried out there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, | with the goodly vessels of Yahweh’s house, |
| and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said. 14 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; no one remained, except the poorest sort of the people of the land. | |
| 15 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. | |
2 Kings 25:27-30 |
Jeremiah 52:31-34 |
| 27 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, | 31 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, |
| lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; | lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison; |
| 28 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, 29 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: 30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life. | 32 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, 33 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: 34 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. |
Mattaniah/Zedekiah: 2 Kings 24:17-25:21 |
Mattaniah/Zedekiah: 2 Chronicles 36:10-20 |
| 17 The king of Babylon | [10 At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of Yahweh’s house,] |
| made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. | and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. |
| 18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: | 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: |
| and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. | |
| 19 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. | 12 and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; |
| he didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of Yahweh. | |
| 20 For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. | |
| Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. | 13 He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: |
| but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel. 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem. 15 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy. | |
Chapter 25 |
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| 1 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. 2 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 6 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him. 7 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem. | 17 Therefore he brought on 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 gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand. 18 All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. |
| 9 He burnt Yahweh’s house, | 19 They burnt God’s house, |
| and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire. 10 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. | and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, |
| 11 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. 12 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields. 13 The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon. 14 They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered. 15 The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, | |
| that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver. | and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it. |
| 16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network. 18 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: 19 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city. 20 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 21 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. | |
| So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. | 20 He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: |
Gedaliah and after: 2 Kings 25:22-26 |
Gedaliah and after: Jeremiah 40:5-43:7 |
| 22 As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor. | 5 Now while he had not yet gone back, Go back then, he said, to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go. 6 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land. |
| 23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that | 7 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that |
| the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, | the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon; |
| they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, | 8 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, |
| even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, | Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, |
| and Johanan the son of Kareah, | and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, |
| and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, | and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, |
| and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, | |
| and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, | and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, |
| they and their men. | they and their men. |
| 24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, | 9 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, |
| “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.” | Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. |
| 10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken. 11 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; 12 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much. 13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, 14 and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn’t believe them. 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael. | |
Jeremiah Chapter 41 |
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| 25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed | Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah. |
| came, and ten men with him, | 2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, |
| and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, | and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. |
| and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. | 3 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war. |
| 4 The second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it, 5 men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house. 6 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and as he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.” 7 It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. 8 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers. 9 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed. 10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people who were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. 11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, 12 then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. 13 Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad. 14 So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. 15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. 16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: 17 and they departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, 18 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land. | |
Jeremiah Chapter 42 |
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| 1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near, 2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us: 3 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do. 4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you. 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us. 6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God. 7 After ten days, Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah. 8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 9 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him: 10 If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you. 11 Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don’t be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. 12 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. 13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice, 14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: 15 now therefore hear Yahweh’s word, O remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there; 16 then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall die. 17 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them. 18 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured out on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more. 19 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don’t you go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this day. 20 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it: 21 and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you. 22 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there. | |
Jeremiah Chapter 43:1-7 |
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| 1 When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words, 2 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to live there; 3 but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon. | |
| 4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn’t obey the voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah. | |
| 26 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, | 5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah; 6 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king’s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah; |
| and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans. | 7 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn’t obey the voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes. |
Epilogue: Ezra 1:1-3 |
Epilogue: 2 Chronicles 36:21-23 |
| 21 to fulfill Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. | |
| 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, | 22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, |
| 2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up | 23 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’” |
| to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem. |
| 6 April 2017 | Added an extra row for the second half of 2 Kings 23:36. Made heading for Jehoiakim/Eliakim consistent between Kings and Chronicles. Fixed synchronisation of 2 Kings 24:1-4 and 2 Chronicles 36:6-7. |
| 1 May 2017 | Synchronised 2 Kings 23:22 and 2 Chronicles 35:18. |
| 9 January 2020 | Small changes to make it easier to read in some places. |
| 16 March 2020 | Small changes to make things more consistent and easier to read in some places. |
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