The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, and God handed them over to the men of Judah.

Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace there.

He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; 300 measures of gold were used for each of those shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.

The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.