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2 Chronicles 36:17

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

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ASV

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

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.

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20 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיַּ֨עַלvai.Ya.'aland he brought upH5927 →
עֲלֵיהֶ֜ם'a.lei.Hemon themH5921 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
מֶ֣לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428 →
כַּשְׂדִּ֗יםkas.di.yim[the] ChaldeansH3778 →
וַיַּהֲרֹ֨גvai.ya.ha.Rogand he killedH2026 →
בַּחוּרֵיהֶ֤םba.chu.rei.Hemyoung men theirH970 →
בַּחֶ֙רֶב֙ba.Che.revwith the swordH2719 →
בְּבֵ֣יתbe.Veitin [the] house ofH1004 →
מִקְדָּשָׁ֔םmik.da.Shamsanctuary theirH4720 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
חָמַ֛לcha.Malhe had compassionH2550 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
בָּח֥וּרba.Churyoung manH970 →
וּבְתוּלָ֖הu.ve.tu.Lahand young womanH1330 →
זָקֵ֣ןza.Ken[the] oldH2205 →
וְיָשֵׁ֑שׁve.ya.Sheshand [the] decrepitH3486 →
הַכֹּ֖לha.Kol<the> everyoneH3605 →
נָתַ֥ןna.Tanhe gaveH5414 →
בְּיָדֽוֹ׃be.ya.Doin hand hisH3027 →

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Jeremiah 51:22With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.Ezekiel 9:6Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.Habakkuk 1:6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.Lamentations 2:21Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.Psalms 74:20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.Ezra 9:7From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and put to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.Psalms 74:4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,Isaiah 13:18Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.Jeremiah 9:21For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.Jeremiah 40:3and now the LORD has fulfilled it; He has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, this thing has happened to you.Ezekiel 9:5–7And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!Psalms 79:1The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.Deuteronomy 28:50a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.Deuteronomy 28:36The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.Jeremiah 11:22So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.Ezekiel 9:7Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.Deuteronomy 31:16–18And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.Jeremiah 39:1–18In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.

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