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Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Psalm 127:1
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Psalm 127:1
Daily Meditation
17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
Today’s Reading
Jeremiah 39
The City Was Broken
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1 In the ninth year
of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the
eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the
city was broken up. 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and
sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim,
Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the
king of Babylon.
4 And it came to
pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war,
then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the
king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of
the plain. 5 But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah
in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave
judgment upon him. 6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in
Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him
to Babylon.
8 And the Chaldeans
burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake
down the walls of Jerusalem. 9 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard
carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in
the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the
people that remained. 10 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the
poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them
vineyards and fields at the same time.
11 Now
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan
the captain of the guard, saying, 12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him
no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. 13 So Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer,
Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes; 14 even they sent, and took
Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt
among the people.
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