2 Kings 20:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And your sons, the offspring of your body, they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 33:11 : 11 So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
  • 2 Kgs 24:12 : 12 Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.
  • Dan 1:3 : 3 And the king gave orders to Ashpenaz, the captain of his unsexed servants, to take in some of the children of Israel, certain of the king's family, and those of high birth;
  • 2 Kgs 25:6 : 6 And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.

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    5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies:

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    7 And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

  • 2 Kgs 20:16-17
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    16 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord.

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  • Deut 28:41
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    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

  • Deut 28:32
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    32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

  • Jer 38:22-23
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    22 See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

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  • Isa 14:22
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    22 For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

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    4 For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.

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    17 And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.

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  • Ezek 23:25-26
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