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2 Kings 25:20-22
New Catholic Bible
2 Kings 25:20-22
New Catholic Bible
20 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon in Riblah. 21 The king of Babylon struck them down and killed them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus, Judah was carried away from their land into exile.
22 Gedaliah Governs Judah.[a] As for the rest of the people who had remained in the land of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, appointed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them.
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- 2 Kings 25:22 These painful incidents are told in detail in Jeremiah (Jer 40–42). Judah is now like “a desert that no one can cross” (Jer 9:12), since Babylonia does not introduce new inhabitants as Assyria had done in the case of Israel. But the wintry silence is preparing for the germination of new seed. This will produce a new people, one that has the law written in its heart and that will come to rebuild these ruins (Jer 31:33).
