2Chr.36.17

2 Chronicles 36:17

KJV

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

The Fall of Jerusalem

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:25

KJV GOD

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

The Song of Moses

2 Kings 25:1

KJV

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

Nebuchadnezzar Besieges Jerusalem

Ezra 5:12

KJV

But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

Tattenai’s Letter to Darius

Psalm 79:1

KJV

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

A Prayer for Deliverance

A Psalm of Asaph.

Isaiah 13:18

KJV GOD

Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

The Burden against Babylon

Babylon Will Fall to the Medes

Jeremiah 9:21

KJV

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

A Lament over Zion

Jeremiah 11:22

KJV GOD

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

A Plot against Jeremiah

Jeremiah 16:6

KJV GOD

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

Disaster Predicted

Jeremiah 21:1

KJV

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

Jerusalem Will Fall to Babylon

Jeremiah 21:7

KJV GOD

And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

Jerusalem Will Fall to Babylon

Jeremiah 32:28

KJV GOD

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

The LORD Answers Jeremiah

Jeremiah 51:22

KJV GOD

With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

Babylon’s Punishment

Lamentations 2:21

KJV

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

God’s Anger over Jerusalem

Ezekiel 9:6

KJV GOD

Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Execution of the Idolaters

Ezekiel 9:7

KJV GOD

And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.