5. Other than David, and Hezekiah, and Josiah, everyone committed sin.
6. For the kings of Judah abandoned the law of the Most High, and they held contempt for the fear of God.
7. For they gave their kingdom to foreigners, and their glory to a strange people.
8. They set fire to the chosen city of sanctity, and they made its streets desolate, in accord with the hand of Jeremiah.