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19 Then (A)they burned the house of God and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles. 20 And those who had escaped from the sword he (B)took away into exile to Babylon; and (C)they were slaves to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, 21 (D)to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until (E)the land had made up for its sabbaths. (F)All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath [a](G)until seventy years were fulfilled.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 36:21 Lit to fulfill seventy years