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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel covers the Old Testament books of Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Amos, Hosea and Jeremiah. Study the ways in which God cares for his chosen people in good times and in bad, as they turn away from God in rebellion and then turn back to him in repentance. Part of the Come and See Catholic Bible Study series, this volume presents the rich...

ò Shephatiah the son of Mattan ò Gedaliah the son of Pashhur ò Jucal the son of Shelemiah ò Pashhur the son of Malchiah Historicity of the Bible—Jeremiah mentions a Babylonian official named Nebo-Sarsechim (Jeremiah 39:3) sitting in judgment in the Middle Gate of Jerusalem after the fall of the city in 587 BC. The historicity of this figure was recently verified in a cuneiform tablet from 595 BC, found in the 1870s in ancient Sippar, near Baghdad, and acquired by the British Museum in 1920. On July
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