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But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra 5:12 — KJV
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Ezra 5:12
King James Version (KJV)
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Commentary
Commentary on Ezra 5:12
Theological / DevotionalOur fathers had provoked. Chiefly, by their flagrant idolatry and the moral abominations it involved—the sacrifice of children, and licentious rites belonging to the worship of Baal. For centuries, with only short and rare intervals, “the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen,” and even “polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem” (2 Chron. 36:14).
Nebuchadnezzar. For the final siege of Jerusalem see 2 Kings 24 and 25.
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