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A sober Judahite elder addresses anxious townspeople beside intact Jerusalem walls while a raid's smoke rises far away; no living Manasseh or visible deity.
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2 Kings 24:3

Judah's reckoning

Jerusalem Besieged and Carried Away · 2 Kings 24

Story guide: The account connects the calamity to Manasseh's long record of wrong.

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3Surely this came upon Judah at the command of Yahweh, to remove them from before his face because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.

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