52 until he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them. (WEB) 53 They killed their young men with the sword around their holy temple, and spared neither young man or young woman, old man or child; but he delivered all of them into their hands. (WEB) 54 They took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the treasure chests of the Lord’s ark and the king’s treasures, and carried them away to Babylon. (WEB)
1 Esdras 1:52–54
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