1 Nephi 1: 13

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THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI
HIS REIGN AND MINISTRY

CHAPTER 1

13 And he read, saying: Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem, for I have seen thine ^aabominations! Yea, and many things did my father read concerning ^bJerusalem—that it should be destroyed, and the inhabitants thereof; many should perish by the sword, and many should be ^ccarried away captive into Babylon.

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13a	2 Kgs. 24: 19. 19 And he did that which was ^aevil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 2 Chr. 36: 14. 14 ¶ Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the ^aabominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. Jer. 13: 27. 27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine ^aabominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made ^bclean? when shall it once be?
b	2 Kgs. 23: 27. 27 And the Lord said, I will ^aremove Judah also out of my sight, as I have ^bremoved Israel, and will cast off this city ^cJerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there. 2 Kgs. 24: 2. 2 And the Lord sent ^aagainst him bands of the ^bChaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to ^cdestroy it, according to the ^dword of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets. Jer. 13: 14. 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but ^adestroy them. Ezek. 15: 6 (6-8). 6 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As the ^avine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of ^bJerusalem. 1 Ne. 2: 13. 13 Neither did they ^abelieve that Jerusalem, that great city, could be ^bdestroyed according to the words of the prophets. And they were like unto the Jews who were at Jerusalem, who sought to take away the life of my father. 1 Ne. 3: 17. 17 For he knew that Jerusalem must be ^adestroyed, because of the wickedness of the people.
c	2 Kgs. 20: 17 (17-18). 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be ^acarried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. Jer. 52: 15 (3-15). 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard ^acarried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that ^bfell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. 2 Ne. 25: 10. 10 Wherefore, it hath been told them concerning the destruction which should come upon them, immediately after my father left ^aJerusalem; nevertheless, they ^bhardened their hearts; and according to my prophecy they have been destroyed, save it be those which are ^ccarried away ^dcaptive into Babylon. Omni 1: 15. 15 Behold, it came to pass that Mosiah discovered that the people of ^aZarahemla came out from Jerusalem at the time that ^bZedekiah, king of Judah, was carried away captive into Babylon. TG Babylon.