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1 Esdras 1:38-40 Common English Bible (CEB)

38. Then Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar went up against him, bound him with bronze chains, and took him away to Babylon.

39. Nebuchadnezzar also seized some of the Lord’s holy equipment, carried it off to Babylon, and placed it in his temple.

40. But the things reported about Jehoiakim, his impurity and godlessness, have been written in the scroll about the times of the kings.

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