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treasures of the house of the LORD and the And that a foolish people has
treasures of the king’s house, and he cut in blasphemed Your name.
pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon 19 Oh, do not deliver the life of Your
king of Israel had made in the temple of the turtledove to the wild beast!
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LORD, as the LORD had said. Also he carried Do not forget the life of Your poor
into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains forever.
and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand 20 Have respect to the covenant;
captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. For the dark places of the earth are full
None remained except the poorest people of of the haunts of cruelty.
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the land. And he carried Jehoiachin captive to 21 Oh, do not let the oppressed return
Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, ashamed!
his officers, and the mighty of the land he car- Let the poor and needy praise Your
ried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. name.
16 All the valiant men, seven thousand, and 22
craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man
were strong and fit for war, these the king of reproaches You daily.
Babylon brought captive to Babylon. 23 Do not forget the voice of Your
enemies;
The tumult of those who rise up
against You increases continually.
24:14–16 In 597 B.C.,Nebuchadnezzar took an Proverbs 19:3
additional 10,000 Judeans as captives to
Babylon, in particular the leaders of the 3 The foolishness of a man twists his
nation. This included the leaders of the mili- way,
tary and those whose skills would support the And his heart frets against the LORD.
military. Included in this deportation was the
prophet Ezekiel (Ezek. 1:1–3). Only the lower Acts 2:22–47
classes remained behind in Jerusalem. The 22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of
Babylonian policy of captivity was different Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by
from that of the Assyrians, who took most of miracles, wonders, and signs which God did
the people into exile and resettled the land of through Him in your midst, as you yourselves
Israel with foreigners (17:24).The Babylonians also know— Him, being delivered by the
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took only the leaders and the strong, while determined purpose and foreknowledge of
leaving the weak and poor,elevating those left God, you have taken by lawless hands, have
to leadership and thereby earning their loyalty. crucified, and put to death; whom God raised
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Those taken to Babylon were allowed to work
and live in the mainstream of society.This kept up, having loosed the pains of death, because
the captive Jews together, so it would be pos- it was not possible that He should be held by
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sible for them to return, as recorded in Ezra. it. For David says concerning Him:
‘I foresaw the LORD always before my
face,
17 Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah,
Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and For He is at my right hand, that I may
not be shaken.
changed his name to Zedekiah. 26
18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my
tongue was glad;
he became king, and he reigned eleven years Moreover my flesh also will rest in
in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal hope.
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the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. He also 27 For You will not leave my soul in
did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to Hades,
all that Jehoiakim had done. For because of Nor will You allow Your Holy One to
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the anger of the LORD this happened in Jerusa- see corruption.
lem and Judah, that He finally cast them out 28 You have made known to me the ways
from His presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled of life;
against the king of Babylon.
You will make me full of joy in Your
Psalm 74:18–23 presence.’
18 Remember this, that the enemy has 29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to
reproached, O LORD, you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead

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