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. ¹⁷^aTherefore 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. ¹⁹^eAnd 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:

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sSee ch. 33. 23 marg.
t ch. 24. 19. Neh. 9. 30.
uSo ch. 30. 10.
xSee Num. 15. 31.
ySo Gen. 27. 12 (Heb.). Comp. Jer. 32. 3. & 38. 6. Matt. 23. 34–37.
zSo Ezra 5. 12.
a 2 Kin. 25. 1, &c. So Deut. 28. 49. Ezra 9. 7.
b Ps. 78. 63. & 79. 2, 3.
cSo Job 12. 12. & 15. 10. & 29. 8. & 32. 6, in the Heb.
d 2 Kin. 25. 13–15. Comp. ver. 7, 10.
e 2 Kin. 25. 9. Ps. 74. 6, 7. & 79. 1.
f 2 Kin. 15. 25.
gSee ch. 32. 27.
h 2 Kin. 25. 11.
i Jer. 27. 7.
k ver. 22.

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