Immerse: Prophets - Flipbook - Page 322
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IMMERSE
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PROPHETS
52:33-34
there at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon had them all
put to death. So the people of Judah were sent into exile from their land.
The number of captives taken to Babylon in the seventh year of Nebu
chadnezzar’s reign was 3,023. Then in Nebuc hadnezzar’s eighteenth year
he took 832 more. In Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year he sent Nebu
zaradan, the captain of the guard, who took 745 more—a total of 4,600
captives in all.
In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evilmerodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin
and released him from prison on March 31 of that year. He spoke kindly
to Jehoiachin and gave him a higher place than all the other exiled kings
in Babylon. He supplied Jehoiachin with new clothes to replace his prison
garb and allowed him to dine in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.
So the Babylonian king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he
lived. This continued until the day of his death.
