1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Chronicles 36:10

And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, carrying away, at the same time, the most precious vessels of the house of the Lord: *and he made Sedecias, his uncle, king over Juda and Jerusalem.

4 Kings 24:1.; Jeremias 37:1.

Year, in spring, when kings go out to war. (Calmet) --- Uncle. Septuagint, "brother of his father," which comes to the same sense, and was certainly the case. Hebrew, "his brother." Abraham indeed gives the title to his nephew, Genesis 13:8. (Calmet)