2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 168
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their
great
ungodliness,
commanded the kings of the
Chaldees to come up against
Babylon.
them.
53 Who flew their young men
with the sword, yes even within
the compass of their holy
Temple, and spared neither
young man nor maid, old man
nor child among them, for he
delivered all into their hands.
54 And they took all the holy
vessels of Yahuah, both great
and small, with the vessels of
the Ark of Elohim, and the
king’s treasures, and carried
them away into Babylon.
55 As for the house of Yahuah
they burnt it, broke down the
T H E
F I R S T
T E M P L E
walls of Yerusalem, set fire
upon her towers.
56 And as for her glorious
things, they never ceased
til they had consumed and
brought them all to nothing,
and the people that were
not slain with the sword, he
carried unto Babylon:
57 Who became servants to
him and his children, til the
Persians reigned, to fulfill the
word of Yahuah spoken by
the mouth of YirmiYahu:
58 Until the land had enjoyed
her Sabbaths, the whole time
of her desolation shall she rest,
until the full term of seventy
years.
Cf. Jer. 25:11
and 29:10.
Or, Keep
Sabbath.
Yerusalem ruins. Babylon sacks the city and the Temple.
55 As for the house of Yahuah
they burnt it,
broke down the walls of Yerusalem,
set fire upon her towers.
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