2 Chronicles 36:11–20

^11mZedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹²And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before ⁿJeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord. ¹³And he also ^orebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, ^pwho had made him swear by God: but he ^qstiffened his neck, and ^rhardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁴Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, ^stransgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen: and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. ¹⁵And the Lord God of their fathers ^tsent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: ¹⁶but they ^umocked the messengers of God, and ^xdespised his words, and ^ymisused his prophets, until ^zthe wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. ^17aTherefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who ^bslew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or ^chim that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. ¹⁸And ^dall 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. ^19eAnd they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the ^fpalaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the ^ggoodly vessels thereof. ²⁰And ^hthem that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where ⁱthey were servants to him and his sons until ^kthe reign of the kingdom of Persia: