15-17 God, the God of their ancestors, repeatedly sent warning messages to them. Out of compassion for both his people and his Temple he wanted to give them every chance possible. But they wouldn’t listen; they poked fun at God’s messengers, despised the message itself, and in general treated the prophets like idiots. God became more and more angry until there was no turning back—God called in Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who came and killed indiscriminately—and right in The Temple itself; it was a ruthless massacre: young men and virgins, the elderly and weak—they were all the same to him.
18-20 And then he plundered The Temple of everything valuable, cleaned it out completely; he emptied the treasuries of The Temple of God, the treasuries of the king and his officials, and hauled it all, people and possessions, off to Babylon. He burned The Temple of God to the ground, knocked down the wall of Jerusalem, and set fire to all the buildings—everything valuable was burned up. Any survivor was taken prisoner into exile in Babylon and made a slave to Nebuchadnezzar and his family. The exile and slavery lasted until the kingdom of Persia took over.
21 This is exactly the message of God that Jeremiah had preached: the desolate land put to an extended sabbath rest, a seventy-year Sabbath rest making up for all the unkept Sabbaths.
Nebuchadnezzar
נְבוּכַדְרֶאצּוֹרnəbukhadəretsor
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, burned the temple, and took the people of Judah into exile (2 Kings 25:8).
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Babylon
Hoje: Al-Hillah (Babylon), Iraq
בָּבֶ֫לbavelΒαβυλώνBabulōn
Babylon is the city whose king went to Jerusalem, carried off Jerusalem’s king and nobles, and brought them back with him to Babylon (Ezekiel 17:12).
32,54° N, 44,42° L
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Babylon
Hoje: Al-Hillah (Babylon), Iraq
בָּבֶ֫לbavelΒαβυλώνBabulōn
Babylon is the city whose king went to Jerusalem, carried off Jerusalem’s king and nobles, and brought them back with him to Babylon (Ezekiel 17:12).
32,54° N, 44,42° L
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Jerusalem
Hoje: Jerusalem, Israel
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫םyerushalaimἹερουσαλήμHierousalēm
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
31,78° N, 35,23° L
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Babylon
Hoje: Al-Hillah (Babylon), Iraq
בָּבֶ֫לbavelΒαβυλώνBabulōn
Babylon is the city whose king went to Jerusalem, carried off Jerusalem’s king and nobles, and brought them back with him to Babylon (Ezekiel 17:12).
32,54° N, 44,42° L
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Persia
Hoje: Iran (Ancient Persia)
פָּרַסparas
Persia is the kingdom of Cyrus, the king who said that the Lord, the God of heaven, had given him all the kingdoms of the earth and the task of building a temple in Jerusalem (Ezra 1:2).
34,81° N, 48,52° L
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Jeremiah
יִרְמְיָהוּyirəmyahuΙερεμιουIeremiou
Jeremiah, a priest from Anathoth, prophesied to Judah in the final days of the kingdom, announced the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon, and was persecuted and imprisoned for this (Jeremiah 1:1).
Significado: “The LORD exalts / establishes”