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This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
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Reconciling the Numbers
Commentators note an apparent discrepancy between this verse (3,023 captives in the 7th year of Nebuchadnezzar) and 2 Kings 24 (10,000 in the 8th year). Scholars offer solutions, such as the 3,023 referring specifically to men from Judah, while the larger number included other tribes. This shows that many supposed 'contradictions' have reasonable historical and textual explanations.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Seventh year - The suggestion is now generally received that the word "ten" has dropped out before "seven," and that the deportations mentio…
19th Century
Anglican
This is the people ... — Here the parallelism with 2 Kings 25:0 (which provides a brief summary of the history of Geda…
16th Century
Protestant
Laus Deo
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LECTURES OF JOHN CALVIN
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This [is] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captivein the seventh year That…
The leaders of the Jews caused them to err; but now they are, in particular, made monuments of Divine justice. Here is an account of two earlier ca…
