Jeremiah 52:1-34
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Nine year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They camped outside the city and built siege works around it. Eleven year of King Zedekiah, by the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. Zedekiah was captured by Babylonian.
Three times there were 4,00 people of Jews from Jerusalem carried in to exile.
Why?
This chapter fills out the account of the fall of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Tempe, and the deportation of the people given in Jeremiah 39. It is almost identical to the story in 2 Kings 25.
The captive were deported in 597,587 and 581. 2 Kings says 10,000 were taken; 2 Chronicles 36 says it was all the survivors.
With the accession of Nebuchadnezzar's son, things improved for Jehoiachin, a token of new hope for the nation.
All of the prophets from the Lord through Jeremiah were come true. The Lord is faithfulness and righteousness.
How?
The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right. Proverbs 21:7
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