2Ch 36:14-20 | NASB2020 | STEP | Furthermore , all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful , following all the abominations of the nations ; and they defiled the house of the Lord which He had sanctified in Jerusalem .

2 Chronicles 36:14-20

14 Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the Lord which He had sanctified in Jerusalem.

15 Yet the Lord, the God of their fathers, ^asent word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place; 16 but they continually ^bmocked the messengers of God, ^cdespised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, ^duntil the wrath of the Lord rose against His people, until there was no remedy. 17 ^eSo He brought up against 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 frail; He handed them all over to him. 18 ^fHe brought all the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and his officers, to Babylon. 19 Then ^gthey burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles. 20 He ^htook into exile those who had escaped from the sword to Babylon; and ⁱthey were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,