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Understanding the People of the Biblical World
One of God’s “Rosetta Stones”
for Understanding God’s Word
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The Babylonians
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d An Oversimplified Timeline of the Bible
(+ or - 100 years)
2000 BC
Abraham
1500 BC
Moses
1000 BC
David
500 BC
Babylonian Captivity
4 BC
Birth of Jesus
The Babylonians
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The United Monarchy• King Saul• King David• King Solomon• King Rehoboam
1050 – 931 B.C. (119 years)
Phoenicians
Philistines
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d Divided Monarchy
The two kingdoms function
independently until the Fall of Israel to the Assyrians in
721 B.C.
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d Divided Monarchy• In 690 B.C. Hezekiah
extends control over part of Northern Kingdom.
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Were all the people of
the 10 Lost Tribes lost?
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d Out of a population of 500,000• 40,820 went into exile in Assyria. • Some were killed in the invasion. • Some remained in the land of Israel.• 90,000 – 100,000 joined the refugee
train South and became part of the Kingdom of Judah.
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The Babylonians
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d Genesis 10NoahHamCushNimrod
8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
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d10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
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Genesis 11
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
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d6 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
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d 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
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d 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11
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d Assyrian vs. BabyloniaAssyria
• Military State which drafted it’s citizens.
Babylonia• Land of Farmers
and Merchants.
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d Assyrian vs. BabyloniaAssyria
• King as Supreme Ruler and General of the Armies.
Babylonia• Priests of Marduk
are the highest authorities. The King was a priest.
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The Cylinder of Nabopolassar
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d “But I—the weak one, the powerless one, the one who constantly seeks the Lord of lords—removed them from Akkad and caused (the Babylonians) to throw off their yoke with the mighty power of Nabu and Marduk, my patrons.”
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The Battle of Nineveh
612 B.C.
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dThe Nebuchadnezzar Cylinder
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King Nebuchadnezzar II
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The Battle of
Carchemish605 BC
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The Battle of Carchemish
605 B.C.
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d Jeremiah prophesies the Battle of Carchemish – Jeremiah 46
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, said: “Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
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d Jeremiah 46
26 I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the LORD.
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The First Babylonian
InvasionNebuchadnezzar
(605 B.C.)
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d 2 Kings 241 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
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d 2 Kings 242 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servants the prophets.
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The Second Babylonian
InvasionNebuchadnezzar
(597 B.C.)
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d 2 Kings 2410 At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it, 11 and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it.
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d 2 Kings 2412 Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
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d 2 Kings 2413 As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed all the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and took away all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD.
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d 2 Kings 2414 He carried into exile all Jerusalem: all the officers and fighting men, and all the craftsmen and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest people of the land were left.
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d The Second Babylonian Invasion
The prophet Ezekiel is deported at this
time.
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The Third Babylonian
InvasionNebuchadnezzar
(589 B.C.)
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Jeremiah 5212 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
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dJeremiah 52
13 He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. 14 The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
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dJeremiah 52
15 Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen and those who had gone over to the king of Babylon.
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dJeremiah 52
16 But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
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dThe Benefits of the Babylonian Captivity
1. The Jews were cured of idolatry.
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dThe Benefits of the Babylonian Captivity
2. The Scribes and the copying of Scripture.
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dThe Benefits of the Babylonian Captivity
3. The rise of the Synagogue.
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dThe Benefits of the Babylonian Captivity
4. The unification of the Jewish people.
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d 4 Practical Lessons
1. Don’t fight in the “Quick Sand” of God’s correction!
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2. Look for opportunity in the tough times!
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3. Growing in your understanding of God’s Word breaks many chains and leads to true freedom.
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d 4 Practical Lessons
4. Don’t confuse wealth and God’s Blessing.
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