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The chief of
the priests,and the people transgressed very much after
all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the
house of YHWH which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And
YHWH Elohim of their fathers sent to them by his messengers,
rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion
on his people, and on his dwelling place; But they mocked
the messengers of Elohim, and despised his words and
misused his prophets until the wrath of YHWH arose against
his people til there was no remedy.
Therefore, YHWH brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans,
who slew their young men with the sword in the house
of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young
man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age;
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And
all the vessels of the house of Elohim, great and small, and
the treasures of the house of YHWH, and the treasures of the
king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon;
and they burnt the house of Elohim, and brake down the wall
of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire,
and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to
Babylon; where they were servants to him (Nebuchadnezzar)
and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia; to
fulfill the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the
land had enjoyed her Sabbaths; for as long as she lay desolate
she kept Sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years (70
years).” (II Chr. 36:14-21, Jer. 25:9-11)
The House of Israel was colonized by the Assyrians, but the
House of Judah survived for more than a century later until
it fell in 587 BC to the Babylonian ruler, Nebuchadnezzar.
For 70 years, Jerusalem would enjoy her holy Sabbaths, and
for the first time in mass, the children of Judah would go
into captivity (II Chron. 36:5-20, Jer. 25: )! This was the
beginning of the end for the royal house of Judah.
They produced no more kings of the lineage of David, until
the Messiah, the Prince, the son of YHWH, the Lion of the
tribe of Judah who will instruct the people in the way of
righteousness. Under the reign of Solomon’s son Rehoboam,
the Kingdom of Israel was split into two separate kingdoms
— the Northern kingdom of Samaria, known as the House
of Israel — and the Southern Kingdom of Jerusalem, known
as the House of Judah. This was the beginning of the end of
the ancient Hebrew Israelite nation.
By the time of the Messiah in the first Century A.D., many
evils fell on the Children of Israel just as YHWH had foretold.
They had undergone several major captivities in foreign lands
that included the deportation of the House of Israel by the
Assyrians in 721 B.C; and the 70 year captivity of the House
of Judah by the Babylonians in 607 B.C. During the reign of
Cyrus The Great of the Medo-Persian empire in 539 B.C., Judah
was allowed to return to Jerusalem to rebuild their city and
temple to YHWH.
(End)
Next Page: Medo-Persian Empire
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"Surely at the commandment of the LORD
this came upon Judah, to remove them from
His sight because of the sins of Manasseh,
according to all that he had done, and also
because of the innocent blood that he had
shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent
blood, which the LORD would not pardon."
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