Finally the terrible day has come. This day seared itself into Israel’s consciousness as powerfully as the first Passover.
Zedekiah seeks advice
Jeremiah 38:14-27
Message to Ebed-Melech
Jeremiah 39:15-18
The fall of Jerusalem
Jeremiah 38:28
The famine
2 Kings 25:3, Jeremiah 52:6
Fall of Judah 587BC
The Babylonian princes
Jeremiah 39:2-3
Zedekiah’s fight and capture
2 Kings 25:4-5, Jeremiah 39:4-5, 52:7-8
The slaughter
2 Chronicles 36:17
Zedekiah’s sons slain
Jeremiah 52:9-10, 39:6
His blindness
Ezekiel 12:13-14, 2 Kings 25:6-7, Jeremiah 39:7, 52:11
Temple and walls destroyed
2 Kings 25:8-10, 2 Chronicles 36:19, Jeremiah 39:8, 52:12-14
Zedekiah is afraid. He asks Jeremiah for advice, but is too sacred to take it. Fear makes him a fool. He is forced to watch while his family are killed, and this is the last thing his eyes see, for then he is blinded and led in chains to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar gives specific orders that Jeremiah is to be spared - early evidence of God’s influence, perhaps?
Now the ultimate degradation takes place. Everything of value is stripped out of the Temple, and that fine old building, Solomon’s creation, which carried the hopes of Israel for so long, is burnt to the ground. This took place on August 17th 587BC. Here I am, reading about it almost exactly 2598 years later.
Zedekiah seeks advice
Jeremiah 38:14-27
Message to Ebed-Melech
Jeremiah 39:15-18
The fall of Jerusalem
Jeremiah 38:28
The famine
2 Kings 25:3, Jeremiah 52:6
Fall of Judah 587BC
The Babylonian princes
Jeremiah 39:2-3
Zedekiah’s fight and capture
2 Kings 25:4-5, Jeremiah 39:4-5, 52:7-8
The slaughter
2 Chronicles 36:17
Zedekiah’s sons slain
Jeremiah 52:9-10, 39:6
His blindness
Ezekiel 12:13-14, 2 Kings 25:6-7, Jeremiah 39:7, 52:11
Temple and walls destroyed
2 Kings 25:8-10, 2 Chronicles 36:19, Jeremiah 39:8, 52:12-14
Zedekiah is afraid. He asks Jeremiah for advice, but is too sacred to take it. Fear makes him a fool. He is forced to watch while his family are killed, and this is the last thing his eyes see, for then he is blinded and led in chains to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar gives specific orders that Jeremiah is to be spared - early evidence of God’s influence, perhaps?
Now the ultimate degradation takes place. Everything of value is stripped out of the Temple, and that fine old building, Solomon’s creation, which carried the hopes of Israel for so long, is burnt to the ground. This took place on August 17th 587BC. Here I am, reading about it almost exactly 2598 years later.
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