Jeremiah – The Fall of Jerusalem

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Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 52: 1-3
  • Zedekiah
    • Last King to rein in Jerusalem
    • 21 y/o, 597 BC
    • Reined for 11 years
    • Babylon destroyed Israel
    • Did evil in sight of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 52: 4-11
  • 586 BC: Babylon’s Nebuchadnezzar sieged Jerusalem
  • Severe famine
  • Zedekiah was captured in the plains of Jericho
    • Taken to Riblah
    • Zedekiah’s sons were slaughtered before him
    • then blinded
    • remained in prison till his death
• Jeremiah 52:12-16
  • Nebuzaradan: “Chief of Staff”
    • Burned
      • House of the LORD
      • The King’s house
      • all the houses of Jerusalem
      • Every large house
    • broke down the walls around Jerusalem
    • Took
      • Some poorest of the land
      • those who where left in the city
      • deserters
    • Left the poorest of the land to live off the land
• Jeremiah 52:17-23
  • Taken to Babylon from the Temple
    • Bronze pillars,
    • Bronze Stands
    • Bronze Sea
    • Pots, Shovels, snuffers. basins, pans
    • bowls, fire pans, basins, pots, lamp stands, fine gold and silver
• Jeremiah 52:24-27
  • Taken
    • Seaiah the chief priest
    • Zephaniah the second priest
    • temple officers
    • city officials
    • All put to death
  • Judah led away to exile, as prophesied.
• Jeremiah 52: 28-30
  • Those exiled: probably/possibly a later group after  586 BC
• Jeremiah 52: 31-34
  • King served for 1 year, (Jehoiachin/Jeconiah), Babylon exiled him,
    • Life in Messiah (descendant of King David: None of Jeconiah’s descendants will sit on the throne) Mary’s genealogy is traced not through Jeconiah but through Mary – Nathan
    • Placed in prison by Evil-merodach (Nebuchadnezzar’s successor) and 20 years later Jeconiah is released from prison

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