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21 Then Yahweh gave Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) a meesage when King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) sent Malkiyah’s son Pashhur and Maaseyah’s son Tsefanyah (Zephaniah) the priest to him, and they said, 2 “Please request Yahweh’s advice on our behalf, because the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar is attacking us. Perhaps Yahweh will do miracles for us like he has in the past, and will make him stop attacking us and leave.”[ref]
3 So Yirmeyah told them to tell King Tsidkiyah that 4 Yisrael’s god Yahweh says this:
Listen, I’m about to make your own weapons ineffective that you’re all using to fight the Babylonian king and the Babylonians (Heb. Kasdi = Chaldeans) who are laying siege to you from outside the wall, and I’ll gather them[fn] in the middle of this city. 5 Then I myself will fight you all with all my strength and power in my anger and rage and terrible fury, 6 and I’ll kill this city’s inhabitants—people and animals will all die in a terrible plague. 7 Then Yahweh declares that after that I’ll hand over Yehudah’s King Tsidkiya along with his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, and to their enemies who want to kill them. He’ll kill them with the sword—he won’t spare them or show pity or compassion.
8 Then you must tell this to the people:
Yahweh says that I’m about to give you the choice between the path to life and the path to death. 9 Anyone who stays in this city will die from war, famine, or plague, but anyone who goes out and falls to their knees in front of the Babylonians who’ve surrounded you all, will live They’ll escape with their lives that way 10 because I’ve already decided to harm this city rather than doing good. Yahweh declares that this city will be handed over to the Babylonian king and he’ll burn it down.
21:4 This last part of the sentence is left quite literal, as it’s ambiguous in the Hebrew, what or who the ‘them’ is referring to here.
2Ki 25:1-11:
In the ninth year of Tsidkiyah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar brought all his army to Yerushalem. They made their camp outside the city, and then built attack structures all around it 2 and besieged the city for two years. 3 The people didn’t have enough to eat and the famine became severe. 4 Then the Babylonians began breaking into the city, but the local fighters sneaked out at night through a gate between two walls near the king’s garden and escaped down to the desert plain. 5 However, the Babylonian soldiers chased after the king and they overtook him on the Yericho plains, and his army scattered. 6 King Tsidkiyah was captured and taken to the Babylonian king at Rivlah, where he was sentenced—7 He was forced to watch as his sons were slaughtered, then his eyes were gouged out and he was taken to Babylon restrained with two bronze chains.
8 On the seventh day of the fifth month of Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar’s nineteenth year as king, his servant Nevuzaradan, who was his chief bodyguard, went to Yerushalem. 9 He set fire to Yahweh’s temple and the palace, and all of Yerushalem’s houses, so no important building remained. 10 Then the army under the command of Nevuzaradan tore down the walls surrounding Yerushalem. 11 He exiled all the rest of the people from the city, all the surrendered soldiers, and the rest of the population,
2Ch 36:17-21:
17 So Yahweh sent the Chaldean king against them, and they ran their young men through with the sword, even in the temple, and they didn’t spare any of the young men or women, or even those who were older or elderly—God allowed Nebuchadnezzar to thoroughly defeat them.[ref] 18 Then he took everything valuable, big or small, from God’s temple as well as from the king and his officials. 19 They set God’s temple on fire, and tore down some of the wall surrounding Yerushalem, burnt all its palaces, and destroyed everything valuable.[ref] 20 Anyone else who was still alive was taken to Babylon where they became servants to the king and his children, until the time when the Persians came to power. 21 That fulfilled God’s message that Yirmeyah had previously proclaimed, that the land would become desolate to make up for the Rest Days that had been ignored—that took seventy years. [ref]
