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Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
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A Deliberate Desecration
Commentators explain this was not just theft, but a profound act of religious desecration. Nebuchadnezzar placed the sacred vessels from Jehovah's house into the temple of his chief god, Merodach (also called Bel). This was a symbolic declaration of his god's supposed victory over the God of Israel, making the judgment on Judah even more humiliating.
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2 Chronicles
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In his temple - Compare this to the house of his god in Daniel 1:2. Nebuchadnezzar's inscriptions show him to have been the special…
19th Century
Anglican
Nebuchadnezzar also carried. — And of the vessels of the house ... did Nebuchadnezzar bring. Not mentioned in Ki…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 36:1)
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