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Inner Aim - Though God punishes those who reject Him, He preserves His children and keeps His promises. Your Turn - Write the names of the Kings of Judah in order from the story.
• Nebuchadnezzar’s actions: he invaded Judah and took captive some youth and utensils from the temple (Dan 1:1-2); he invaded Judah a second time and emptied the treasures of the temple and the palace and carried into exile Judah’s leaders and skilled craftsmen.
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Zedekiah was the last King of Jud ah, in whose reign it collapsed under the onslaught of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, on the Ninth Day of Ab in the year 586 BCE. We may gain some better understanding of this disaster if we summarize the cataclysmic events that preceded it.
The 70 years of God being indignant with Jerusalem (Zech. 1:12) may be the period from the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 to the completion of the rebuilding of the temple in 516, rather than a reference to the 70 years of captivity, since at that time the Jews had already returned to the land.
The sovereignty that the kingdom of Judah enjoyed after the death of Ashurbanipal was brief. The Assyrian cities were sacked and burned by Median raiders, Assur falling in 614 and Nineveh in 612 BC, and in place of the Assyrian empire arose a Chaldaean empire based in Babylon.
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17 “Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on Judah and on everyone living in Jerusalem every disaster I pronounced against them. I spoke to them, but they did not listen; I called to them, but they did not answer.’”.
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Important dates in the chronology of Judah’s return from Babylon to Jerusalem. 536 B.C. Cyrus the Great permitted the return. 49,897 Jews returned from Babylon to Jerusalem. 536 B.C. Built an altar and offered sacrifice in the 7th month.
