Nebuchadnezer Attacks

The Chosen People

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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# 237 - Nebuchadnezer Attacks - In this episode of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein, As Judah unravels after Josiah, Jehoahaz is seized, Jehoiakim bows to Egypt, Jeremiah’s scroll burns—and a new name rises from the east: Nebuchadnezzar. This gripping chapter traces the slow slide toward exile and asks what happens when leaders drift, altars are replaced, and the Word refuses to stay silent.Episode 237 of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Sign up for The Chosen People devotionals at https://www.thechosenpeople.com/sign-upFor more information about Yael Eckstein and IFCJ visit https://www.ifcj.org/Today's opening prayer is inspired by Haggai 1:9, You looked for much, but behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.Listen to some of the greatest Bible stories ever told and make prayer a priority in your life by downloading the Pray.com app.Show Notes:(01:36) Intro with Yael Eckstein(02:26) Nebuchadnezer Attacks(22:57) Reflection with Yael Eckstein See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on the chosen people.
0:02.7	This judgment is not the rage of a tyrant.
0:06.5	It is the heartbreak of a father whose children have thrown themselves into danger.
0:13.1	You call it wrath.
0:14.8	But what is wrath if not love betrayed?
0:18.2	If not justice for the oppressed for the children who screamed as they burned.
0:23.6	Then I will burn their gods before they burn my people.
0:28.6	Lord Nico of Egypt declares,
0:31.6	What quarrel is there, King of Judah, between you and me?
0:36.6	I do not come against you today, but against the
0:39.5	house with which I am at war. God has commanded me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me,
0:47.9	or he will destroy you." The battlefield was loud, which made Josiah silence all the louder. Horses screamed, chariots
0:59.0	thundered, bronze clashed against bone. And then it happened. No trumpet, no flash, no divine sign,
1:09.4	just the cold, stupid reality of war. An archer, Egyptian, probably not even
1:16.6	aiming, let fly. The arrow soared unnoticed until it buried itself in the king's side.
1:24.7	Josiah gasped. He tried with all his heart,
1:30.3	but no man can save Judah.
1:32.8	Not yet.
1:36.4	This is an I-Heart podcast.
1:39.1	Guaranteed Human.
1:41.1	As a listener of the Chosen People podcast,
1:46.2	you know the power of God's Word.
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