are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths” (Lev. 26:34). And note that this twenty-sixth chapter of Leviticus immediately follows the twenty-fifth chapter that had initially spelled out all the sabbath laws. Thus, when the Chronicler finally tells of the carrying away of the children of Israel into the Babylonian captivity, he explains that captivity not simply as punishment but as a time for the land to make up for lost sabbath rest: “The land … enjoyed its sabbaths.