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2 Kings 25:21

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The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

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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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Riblah, in Hamath on the Orontes River, was Nebuchadnezzar’s military headquarters, where Judah’s leaders were executed after Jerusalem’s fall. Babylon and Chaldea identify the imperial power behind the judgment, while Jerusalem, Jericho, Mizpah, Egypt, and the Arabah mark Judah’s shattered political and geographic setting.

Places in this passage

2 Kings 25:21 mentions Arabah, Babylon, Chaldea, Egypt, Hamath, Jericho, Jerusalem, Mizpah and Riblah.

Arabah · Anastasia Pozdnyakova
Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.
Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

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