Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one book in the Hebrew text, because they tell the three-part story of Israel’s return from captivity in Persia. When the Hebrew text was translated into Greek (the Septuagint), this was retained as one book, called Esdras B (or 2 Esdras). It was not until Origen and, finally, Jerome in […]
Chapters fifty and fifty-one, appropriately, deal with Babylon, the great empire of that time. Although they were considered invincible in Jeremiah’s day, God promised that they, too, would face invasion, captivity, and humiliation at the hands of another nation. The “nation from the north” (Jeremiah 50:3) was Medo-Persia, which executed a surprise attack in 539
Chapter twenty-seven records another demonstration God told Jeremiah to perform in order to illustrate his message. This time he was to construct a yoke, that would tie animals together, and wear it to represent how God was binding the nations to Nebuchadnezzar. كازينو العرب 888 This took place at the beginning of Zedekiah’s reign, between
