“Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will make them captives, take them, and carry them to Babylon.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.