19 (A)And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels. 20 He (B)took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, (C)and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had (D)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate (E)it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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