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Ezekiel 21. God Uses the Babylonians to Judge Israel. 1 A message from the Lord came to me. The Lord said, 2 “Son of man, turn your attention to Jerusalem. Preach against the temple. Prophesy against the land of Israel. 3 Tell them, ‘The Lord says, “I am against you. I will pull out my sword.
Preach against the temple. Prophesy against the land of Israel. 3 Tell them, ‘The Lord says, “I am against you. I will pull out my sword. I will remove from you godly people and sinful people alike. 4 Because I am going to remove them, my sword will be ready to use.
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Jan 4, 2022 · Jerusalem fell in July 587 or 586 BC, and Zedekiah was taken captive to Babylon after seeing his sons killed before him and then having his eyes plucked out ( 2 Kings 25 ). At this time Jerusalem was laid to waste, the temple destroyed and all the houses burned.
Aug 20, 2023 · Two more deportations took place: one in 586 B.C.E., when Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed, and another in 582 B.C.E. Jeremiah 52:28–30 claims that a total of 4,600 Judahites were displaced in the Babylonian Exile.
- What Languages Did The Judeans Speak in Babylonia?
- Shelamyah Ben Nedavyah Owes Barley
- Urban Scribal Training
- Did Judeans Practice Jewish Ritual/Cult in Babylonia?
- Yahwistic Names
- The Social/Economic Standing of The Judeans in Babylonia
- Judean Marriages
- Inferences from Documents
Subsequent to Nebuchadnezzar’s predations, Judeans who remained in the small villages of Judah probably continued to speak the local Hebrew dialects. However, as Aramaic served as the language of imperial administration, many Judeans would have learnt Aramaic.Certainly, those who were deported to Babylonia would have learned to speak Aramaic, but d...
The promissory note reads: On the left edge of this tablet, five incised letters Š-L-M-Y-H spell the Hebrew name שלמיה, Šelamyah, rendered Šalam-Yāma (=Yawa=Yahweh)in the Akkadian text. Some of these letters present features distinctive to paleo-Hebrew script. This mid-sixth century transaction (549B.C.E.) belongs to a watershed period in the histo...
The idiosyncratic evidence of Shelamya’s training in Paleo-Hebrew writing comes from a text written in the countryside, where administrative records were produced by local or itinerant scribes working for the imperial administration. Judeans in the countryside would have had little opportunity for exposure to Babylonian scribal training. The situat...
As the ample documentation of cultic life in Babylonian administrative and ritual texts are the artifacts of activity conducted in the sphere of the urban elite, unsurprisingly, they include no explicit statement of Judean cultic practice. Even so, written expression of Judean religious texts or practice may have been produced within the Judean com...
Diagnostic Yahwistic names have long been considered to reflect attachment to tradition, or to be markers of theological speculation. Yet Yahwistic names appear in contexts that also reflect Judean integration into the Babylonian administrative organization. The Babylonian onomasticon (pool of names) of the first millenniumB.C.E. includes “official...
Social and economic integration of Judeans amenable to adopting Babylonian name patterns and to act in ways that were contrary to religious commands can be tracked in the cuneiform records of their participation in commercial and entrepreneurial activity.
Surviving details related to Judean family life derive from two texts in the corpus of Neo-Babylonian marriage documents. Part of marriage in this period was a contractual obligation involving transfer of goods and property between families. Babylonian families recorded marriages in cuneiform on clay tablets, and the names of bride and groom, famil...
We do not have texts that chronicle the experience of Judeans in Babylonia after the exile, nor has archaeology uncovered any documents written in Hebrew from this period. This lack of documentation limits our ability to draw a comprehensive picture of the personal lives of Judeans living in Babylonia and of the community as a whole. Even so, infor...
New King James Version. The Utter Destruction of Babylon. 51 Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, Against those who dwell in [ a]Leb Kamai, A destroying wind. 2 And I will send winnowers to Babylon, Who shall winnow her and empty her land. For in the day of doom.
The sovereignty of the Judean kingdom in the land of Israel came to an abrupt end with the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the leading citizens to Babylon in 586 B.C.E. Nebuchadnezzar II, the crown prince of Babylon, had defeated Pharoah Neco and the Egyptians at the battle of Carchemish in 605, and attempted to conquer Egypt.
