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2 Kings 24:11

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Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.
The Assyrian and Babylonian ExileThe kingdoms of Judah and Israel with the routes of the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities.

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Babylon (Chaldea), centered on the Euphrates in Mesopotamia, was the empire whose king Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem, Judah’s capital. Ammon, Moab, Syria, and Egypt—including the Brook of Egypt boundary—mark the surrounding territories from which Judah’s former dominion had been stripped under Babylonian pressure.

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2 Kings 24:11 mentions Ammon, Babylon, Brook of Egypt, Chaldea, Egypt, Euphrates, Jerusalem, Moab and Syria.

Ammon · Berthold Werner
Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Brook of Egypt · اسماء البيك
Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.

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