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Episode 23 - Captives of Babylon
“So they took the king
and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and
he pronounced judgment on him. Then the
king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all
the princes of Judah in Riblah. He also
put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze
fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.”
– Jeremiah 52
After eliminating the last Assyrian holdouts, King
Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon warred against Egypt over control of the Levant. Repeated Judean defiance resulted in the
sacking of Jerusalem. Cyaxares of Medea
found his Anatolian designs curtailed by the powerful kingdom of Lydia.
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Amazing episode! Are your sources from wikipedia? Do you have any other sources of info to recommend?
ReplyDeleteThanks! Wikipedia is awesome, and I use it quite a bit to cross-reference things and provide additional obscure detail. But my main sources for the Near East are Van de Mieroop's "A History of the Ancient Near East" and Roux's "Ancient Iraq." If you're interested, I have a fairly complete listing of my references (and recommended reading) at the very bottom of the right-hand column of my website. Thanks for listening!
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