thy rulers
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 3:1-8
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Observe this: The Lord God of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water,
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the hero and warrior, the judge and prophet, the fortune-teller and elder,
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the commander of 50 and the dignitary, the counselor, cunning magician, and necromancer.
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"I will make youths their leaders, and the unstable will govern them."
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The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the worthless toward the honorable.
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A man will even seize his brother in his father's house, [saying:] "You have a cloak-- you be our leader! This heap of rubble will be under your control."
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On that day he will cry out, saying: "I'm not a healer. I don't even have food or clothing in my house. Don't make me the leader of the people!"
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For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_12 25:4-7
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Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors [fled] by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,
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the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah's entire army was scattered from him.
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The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
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They slaughtered Zedekiah's sons before his eyes. Finally, the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him in bronze [chains], and took him to Babylon.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_12 25:18-21
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The commander of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
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From the city he took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors; five trusted royal aides found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and 60 men from the common people who were found within the city.
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Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 39:4-7
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When he saw them, Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers fled. They left the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls. They left along the route to the Arabah.
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However, the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, arrested him, and brought him to Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon's king, at Riblah in the land of Hamath. The king passed sentence on him [there].
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At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons before his eyes, and he [also] slaughtered all Judah's nobles.
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Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 52:24-27
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The commander of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
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From the city he took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and 60 men from the common people who were found within the city.
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Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah went into exile from its land.
