"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 25 April 2012"
Today's Blog Title: "The Babylonian Captivity Foretold"
Today's Blog Scripture Reading: Isaiah 39:1-8
Today's Blog Verse: Isaiah 39:6 "Behold, the days are coming when all that is your house, and what your father have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left," says the LORD."
The incident in this chapter is used by Isaiah to introduce the coming Babylonian captivity. "Merodach-baladan...king of Babylon" is known in the Akkadian texts as "Mardukapal-iddina." He conquered Babylon in 721 B.C. with the help of the "Elamites" and ruled there 11 years before being driven out by Sargon II of Assyria in 710 B.C. After the death of Sargon, he reentered Babylon briefly in 703 B.C. and attempted to rally support against the new Assyrian ruler, "Sennacherib."
Scholars are divided over whether the Babylonian embassy arrived sometime before 710 B.C. or around 701 B.C., but in either case Merodach-baladan obviously sought support against the Assyrian king. Impressed by the attention of this renegade king, Hezekiah foolishly "showed them...his treasures." There is no doubt that all this was done in vanity and pride, which the king would live to regret.
Thus Isaiah predicts that "all" these royal treasures "shall be carried to Babylon" in the future, because news of these great treasures would spread throughout Babylon, provoking the Babylonians to come and take them away.
Click on the link at www.cindi-davis.blogspot.com for Today's Bible Verses from Romans 8:28-29.
Jesus Reigns!!!! May God's Love, Peace, Strength, and Grace be with you all.
Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi
Today's Blog Title: "The Babylonian Captivity Foretold"
Today's Blog Scripture Reading: Isaiah 39:1-8
Today's Blog Verse: Isaiah 39:6 "Behold, the days are coming when all that is your house, and what your father have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left," says the LORD."
The incident in this chapter is used by Isaiah to introduce the coming Babylonian captivity. "Merodach-baladan...king of Babylon" is known in the Akkadian texts as "Mardukapal-iddina." He conquered Babylon in 721 B.C. with the help of the "Elamites" and ruled there 11 years before being driven out by Sargon II of Assyria in 710 B.C. After the death of Sargon, he reentered Babylon briefly in 703 B.C. and attempted to rally support against the new Assyrian ruler, "Sennacherib."
Scholars are divided over whether the Babylonian embassy arrived sometime before 710 B.C. or around 701 B.C., but in either case Merodach-baladan obviously sought support against the Assyrian king. Impressed by the attention of this renegade king, Hezekiah foolishly "showed them...his treasures." There is no doubt that all this was done in vanity and pride, which the king would live to regret.
Thus Isaiah predicts that "all" these royal treasures "shall be carried to Babylon" in the future, because news of these great treasures would spread throughout Babylon, provoking the Babylonians to come and take them away.
Click on the link at www.cindi-davis.blogspot.com for Today's Bible Verses from Romans 8:28-29.
Jesus Reigns!!!! May God's Love, Peace, Strength, and Grace be with you all.
Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi
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