tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post7826740436376700541..comments2024-03-28T15:08:14.799+08:00Comments on From the Narrow Desert: Living in the reign of ZedekiahWm Jas Tychonievichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-64828793579594590152020-06-16T09:17:08.159+08:002020-06-16T09:17:08.159+08:00By the way, it's worth noting that the second ...By the way, it's worth noting that the second Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, 11 years later, when the Temple was destroyed and the Davidic dynasty brought to an end -- the calamity prophesied by Lehi and the others -- doesn't even merit a mention in the Babylon Chronicles. As far as Babylon was concerned, Jerusalem was defeated at the first siege.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-12212023550209471502020-06-16T00:42:03.677+08:002020-06-16T00:42:03.677+08:00Karl, it's tablet ABC 5 in the Babylon Chronic...Karl, it's tablet ABC 5 in the Babylon Chronicles. You can read an English translation at https://www.livius.org/sources/content/mesopotamian-chronicles-content/abc-5-jerusalem-chronicle/<br /><br />The relevant passage is Rev.11'-13':<br /><br />"In the seventh year [598/597 BC], the month of Kislîmu, the king of Akkad [Nebuchadnezzar] mustered his troops, marched to the Hatti-land [Palestine], and besieged the city of Judah [Jerusalem] and on the second day of the month of Addaru he seized the city and captured the king [Jehoiachin]. He appointed there a king of his own choice [Zedekiah], received its heavy tribute and sent to Babylon."Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-39049572909759948342020-06-15T23:12:33.158+08:002020-06-15T23:12:33.158+08:00What is the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle that you cite...What is the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle that you cite as backing up the account in 2 Kings 24?Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06030980000235824571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-49314114862247103542020-06-15T16:59:20.356+08:002020-06-15T16:59:20.356+08:00Right, it's the Big Lie logic. We find it hard...Right, it's the Big Lie logic. We find it hard to believe that everyone could fall for an obvious lie -- and therefore, everyone falls for an obvious lie.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-34653920866804620212020-06-15T15:33:32.321+08:002020-06-15T15:33:32.321+08:00"it does provide some food for thought."..."it does provide some food for thought."<br /><br />@Yes it does. <br /><br />When I was young and read such things (although not this specifci thing), in a sense I could not believe that people could behave like that - i.e. that almost nobody would notice a world (or even national) takeover. <br /><br />But also, I could not believe that there could be a takeover that nobody would notice - if you get the distinction. <br /><br />What I mean is that it is precisely Because we do not believe that there could be a takeover that nobody would notice that it is in fact possible for there to be a takeover that nobody would notice! <br /><br />The fact we have not noticed it, becomes the primary evidence that it has not happened. <br /><br />Because we think it ridiculous to imagine that such a big thing could happen unnoticed: it did. <br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.com