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Seventy Years of Exile

25 1-2 (A) In the fourth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah,[a] which was the first year that Nebuchadnezzar[b] was king of Babylonia, the Lord told me to speak to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. So I told them:

For 23 years now, ever since the thirteenth year that Josiah[c] was king, I have been telling you what the Lord has told me. But you have not listened.

The Lord has sent prophets to you time after time, but you refused to listen.

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Footnotes

  1. 25.1,2 Jehoiakim … Judah: See the note at 1.3.
  2. 25.1,2 Nebuchadnezzar: See the note at 21.2.
  3. 25.3 Josiah: Hebrew “Josiah son of Amon”; Josiah ruled 640–609 b.c.

So Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah(A) and to all those living in Jerusalem: For twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of Josiah(B) son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again,(C) but you have not listened.(D)

And though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets(E) to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.(F)

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