KJV King James Version
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
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2 Chronicles 36:6
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
WEB World English Bible
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
ASV American Standard Version
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
against him hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon come up, and bindeth him in brazen fetters to take him away to Babylon.
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 36
3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
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 the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
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: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
9 Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
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עָלָ֣יוH5921 · aluponעָלָ֔הH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseנְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖רH5019 · ne.vu.khad.nets.tsarNebuchadnezzarמֶ֣לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingבָּבֶ֑לH894 · ba.velBabylonוַיַּֽאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙H631 · a.sarto bindבַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִםH5178 · ne.cho.shetbronzeלְהֹלִיכ֖וֹH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentבָּבֶֽלָה׃H894 · ba.velBabylon
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 33:11Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.2 Kings 24:1-2In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.Jeremiah 25:9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.2 Kings 24:13-20And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, 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 the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.Ezekiel 19:5-9Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.Daniel 1:1-2In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.Habakkuk 1:5-10Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you].2 Kings 24:5-6Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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