2 Chronicles 36:19-21

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁹ They burned the house of God and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned all its fortified buildings with fire. All its precious articles were destroyed.

²⁰ He sent those who escaped from the sword into exile in Babylon. They became servants for him and for his sons until Persia took over the kingdom.

²¹ To fulfill the word of the Lord that had come by the mouth of Jeremiah, the land completed^[a] its sabbath rests. The entire time the land was desolate, it was completing a sabbath rest, which lasted for seventy years.