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The News of Jerusalem's Fall

21 (A) Twelve years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, a refugee who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me on the fifth day of the tenth month.[a] He told me that the city had fallen.

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Footnotes

  1. 33.21 Twelve years … tenth month: Probably December of 586 b.c.

Jerusalem’s Fall Explained

21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped(A) from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!(B)

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