Passage: Jeremiah 39
Notes: In the midst of the low point in Jerusalem's history, the destruction by the
Babylonians, God (who had called them to carry out his judgment) saves three
(groups of) people: Ebed-melech the Ethiopian - a foreigner - "because he
trusted in the Lord," God's prophet, and the very poor whom their own countrymen
had oppressed all these years, and who now receive the vineyards and fields
their fellow Jews would not let them have. The last thing Zedekiah ever saw was
not just the slaughter of his sons but also that of the bad advisors he felt too
weak to oppose for the sake of righteousness.
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