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Evil Bible Quote of the Day for Sept. 30, 2003 from www.EvilBible.com:

God Kills the People of Judah (2 Chronicles 36:15-21 NLT)

"The LORD, the God of their ancestors, repeatedly sent his

to

warn them, for he had compassion on his people and his Temple. But

people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They
scoffed at the prophets until the LORD's anger could no longer be

restrained

and there was no remedy. So the LORD brought the king of Babylon

against

them. The Babylonians killed Judah's young men, even chasing after

into the Temple. They had no pity on the people, killing both young

old, men and women, healthy and sick. God handed them all over to
Nebuchadnezzar. The king also took home to Babylon all the utensils,

large

and small, used in the Temple of God, and the treasures from both the

LORD's

Temple and the royal palace. He also took with him all the royal

princes.

Then his army set fire to the Temple of God, broke down the walls of
Jerusalem, burned all the palaces, and completely destroyed everything

of

value. The few who survived were taken away to Babylon, and they

servants to the king and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to

power.

So the message of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The

land

finally enjoyed its Sabbath rest, lying desolate for seventy years,

as

the prophet had said."

------------ Commentary:
13-16 At the instigation of Hophra, a new Pharaoh (589-570 B.C.) of the
Twenty-Sixth Dynasty in Egypt (cf. Jer 37:5; Eze 17:15), Zedekiah

"rebelled

against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God's

Zedekiah had been bound as a vassal to the Babylonian monarch; and it

his faithlessness that became his own undoing (Eze 17:13-19).

C. The exile (36:17-23)

Unlike the book of Kings, with its central message of stern moral

judgments,

Chronicles exists essentially as a book of hope, grounded on the grace

our sovereign Lord. The chapters on Judah's rulers (12:1-36:16) describe
some great military victories and reforms, which sprang out of faith in

God,

even in the midst of the nation's overall spiritual deterioration. Then
after having demonstrated that the Lord could, and did, reject his

for their disobedience (36:17-21), the Chronicler moves on to identify

groundwork by which Judah's postexilic restoration was effectuated,

through

the Persian king Cyrus's decree of 538 B.C. (vv.22-23). Thus, in a
repopulated land with a rebuilt temple--that still depicted God's

changeless

way of salvation--a nation refined by its trials could more adequately
celebrate the Lord's continuing providence together with his anticipated
triumph in the messianic kingdom that yet must come into being. History

a

process, not of disintegration, but of sifting, of selection, and of
development. When decades of exile had removed the dross, a remnant of

purer

gold would respond to the appeal for return to the Promised Land: "The

LORD

his God be with him . . . let him go up" (2Ch 36:23)

17 On January 15, 588, the Lord "brought up" against Judah "the king of

the

Babylonians"; and on July 28, 586, Jerusalem fell. For greater detail on

the

city's capture and pillage, see 2Ki 25:1-21; Jer 39:1-10; 52:4-27. This
destruction of Judah is also the subject of the biblical prediction that
involves more verses than any other direct prophecy that is to be found
within Scripture--608, distributed among seventeen different books of

Bible.

Would you please provide eight of those 608 verses, and identify those
seventeen different books? Thank you,