Now viewing scripture range from the book of 1 Esdras chapter 1:40 through chapter 1:43...
40 Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon.
41 Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them in his own temple at Babylon.
42 But those things that are recorded of him, and of his uncleaness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.
43 And Joacim his son reigned in his stead: he was made king being eighteen years old;
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