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C. Jeremiah 52.

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twelve brasen bulls that were under] the bases, which [king] Solomon had made for the house of the LORD: the brass of all these 21 vessels was without weight1. [And as for the pillars,] the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; [and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was 22 hollow.] And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of the [one] chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass and the second pillar also had like unto these, and 23 pomegranates. [And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were an hundred upon the network round about.]

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And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the high priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 25 and out of the city he took an

officer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw the king's face, which were found in the city; and the scribe [of] the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in [the 26 midst of] the city. And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.

B. 2 Chron. 36.
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carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his 21 sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: to fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

11 Kings 7. 15, &c., with which C. agrees.

A. N. C. 7.

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Now when all the captains of 40 7 Now when all the captains of

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the forces [which were in the fields, even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah [the son of Ahikam] governor [in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of them that were not carried away 8 captive to Babylon; then] they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan [and Jonathan] the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, [and the sons of Ephai] the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maaca9 thite, they and their men. And Gedaliah [the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan] sware to them and to their men, saying, Fear not to the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

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§ 55.-NOTE. C. is extracted from the personal narrative in Jer. 40 and 41, on which A. bases the closing part of his history.

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C. Jeremiah 41.

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Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, [and one of the chief officers of the king,] and ten men with him, came [unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in 2 Mizpah. Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him,] and smote Gedaliah [the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword,] and slew him, [whom the king of Babylon had made go3 vernor over the land.] Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, [and the Chaldeans that were found there, even the men 16 of war.] Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon: 17 and they departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into 18 Egypt, because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.

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A. 2 Kings 25.

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And it came to pass in the 31 seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 28 and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in 29 Babylon. And he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually all 30 the days of his life. And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion,

the days of his life.

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C. Jeremiah 52.

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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, [and brought him forth] out of prison; and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in 33 Babylon. And he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually all 34 the days of his life. And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king [of Babylon], every day a portion [until the day of his death], all the days of his life.

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§ 57.-NOTE. In this short section A. is the compiler of the Chronicles, and B. the writer of the first part of Ezra. The books overlap, and may be by the same hand, but the variations are noteworthy.

a Koresh (Cyrus) in the fuller form we find once and in twice. form in A. and in the shorter form in B.

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B. Nehem. 7.

5 [And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and I found written therein :]

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These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away

and that returned unto Jerusalem and [to] Judah, every 7 one unto his city; who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, [Nahamani,] Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.

The number of the men of the people of Israel :

8 The children of Parosh, 2,172.

LXX agrees with B.

CA. . B. 7. § 58.-NOTE. The extract from A. which Nehemiah makes, runs rather beyond the actual list of names, and gives us the first words of the third chapter of Ezra. From this we may gather that the genealogy lay embedded in the history which is in the first six chapters of Ezra, and which is wholly distinct from the second (and much later) part of the book. Copies of all such historical documents, whether written by prophetic men or not, would naturally be deposited in places of safe keeping, but Nehemiah does not tell us what the place was.

.הבאים .B .אשר באו .a A

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