[b-hebrew] repost of full question
Harold Holmyard
hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 18 15:20:30 EDT 2008
Dirk,
> I meant it to read:
>
> Just a side note. The seventy years could be a round. However, it is not necessary. If you take Jeremiah at face value - as 70 years of servitude for "these nations" to the "king of Babylon", then you can start with the full conquering of the ***ASSYRIAN*** empire in 609 BC.... 609-539 = 70 years exactly.
>
HH: Well, I better retract my "Fine," since you do not seem to be making
a valid point now that I look at the details. I thought you meant
Babylon's conquering of Israel, but even that may not be right
HH: The prophecy is primarily about Israel, especially in Dan 9:2 but
also in Jeremiah 25 and 29. In Jer 29:10 I would assume that it was
Babylon's 70 years of hegemony over Israel that was in view.
HH: What is more significant is that Assyria is not even mentioned by
name in the list of nations that Babylon would rule over in Jer 25:17-26.
HH: The dating is clear in Jer 25:1:
Jer. 25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of
Judah, in the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah (that
was the first year of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon),
HH: The fourth year of Jehoiakim was 606 or 605 B.C., but Jeremiah
prophesies of something that is going to happen in the future. So he is
not prophesying the destruction of Assyria earlier in 609 B.C:
Jer. 25:8 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not
obeyed my words,
Jer. 25:9 I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the
LORD, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will
bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these
nations around; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an object of
horror and of hissing, and an everlasting disgrace.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
>
>
More information about the b-hebrew
mailing list