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- Jeremiah
- Chapter 52
- Verse 26
Jeremiah 52:26
So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
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Gill's Exposition
And the king of Babylon smote them,.... Or ordered them to be smitten with the sword; to have their heads cut off, according to Josephus (l):
and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath;…
We have here a very melancholy account, 1. Of the slaughter of some great men, in cold blood, at Riblah, seventy-two in number (according to the number of the elders of Israel, Num 11:24, Num 11:25),…