1.54 The Babylonian Conquest of Judah

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 April 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Egyptians kill Josiah, who is acting on behalf of Babylon against Egypt. They remove his pro-Babylonian son Jehoahaz from the throne, replacing him with the pro-Egyptian Jehoiakim. After the Egyptians are defeated, the Babylonians capture Jehoiakim and the city of Jerusalem, placing on the throne Jeconiah. King Nebuchadnezzar soon tosses him aside, settling on Zedekiah as the Babylonian puppet king. In a bad move, Zedekiah rebels. Nebuchadnezzar destroys Judah. The Jewish exile has begun.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.
0:46.7	Thank you. Episode 1.54. The Babylonian conquest of Judah.
0:54.8	First, just a note, that if you ever get confused about all the kings and dates I mention here,
0:59.1	you can find handy-dandy charts and timelines at my site.
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1:06.9	That's all one word, history in the Bible.
1:13.5	In the last episode of the History in the Bible, we left King Josiah of Judah,
1:22.0	triumphantly celebrating Passover. Josiah met his inglorious end shortly after his great national Passover. In 610 BC, the last holdouts of the Assyrian army were in dire straits at Haran, in their great struggle against, well, just about everyone.
1:36.3	Assyria's good friend, Pharaoh Neco II, sent a great relief force to their aid.
1:43.3	But the Assyrians were punched drunk and on their last legs.
1:48.4	Really, Neko could do little to help them.
1:51.8	The Egyptians had been exploiting Assyrian weakness in the Levant for a decade,
1:57.0	all the while pretending otherwise.
2:00.2	Neco's northern march was a cover to enable him to re-establish
2:04.6	Egypt's dominion over its long-lost provinces in the Levant.
2:09.4	It was also a side bet, just in case the Assyrians prevailed,
2:14.3	as they had done so so often before.
2:21.0	From the account in kings, pro-Babolonian Josiah met Neko at the strategically important site of Megito, located in the middle of the
2:28.2	old northern kingdom of Israel. Kings then simply and cryptically records that Neko killed him.
2:37.0	In Chronicles, the confrontation is a military one.
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