1 Esdras 1:53
“Who flew their yong men with the sword, yea euen within the compasse of their holy Temple, & spared neither yong man nor maid, old man nor child among them, for hee deliuered all into their hands.”
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1 Esdras 1:53 Context
51But they had his messengers in derision, and looke when the Lorde spake vnto them, they made a sport of his prophets, 52So farre foorth that he being wroth with his people for their great vngodlinesse, commanded the kings of the Caldees to come vp against them. 53Who flew their yong men with the sword, yea euen within the compasse of their holy Temple, & spared neither yong man nor maid, old man nor child among them, for hee deliuered all into their hands. 54And they tooke all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the Ark of God, and the kings treasures, and caried them away into Babylon. 55As for the house of the Lord they burnt it, brake downe the walles of Ierusalem, set fire vpon her towres.
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Who slew their young men with the sword, yea, even within the compass of their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child, among them; for he delivered all into their hands.
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