1 Esdras 1:40
“Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the King of Babylon came vp, and bound him with a chaine of brasse, and carried him vnto Babylon.”
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1 Esdras 1:40 Context
38And hee bound Ioacim and the nobles: but Zaraces his brother he apprehended, and brought him out of Egypt. 39Fiue and twentie yeere old was Ioacim when he was made king in the land of Iudea and Ierusalem, and he did euill before the Lord. 40Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the King of Babylon came vp, and bound him with a chaine of brasse, and carried him vnto Babylon. 41Nabuchodonosor also tooke of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them in his owne temple at Babylon. 42But those things that are recorded of him, and of his vncleannes, and impietie, are written in the Chronicles of the kings.
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Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon.
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