Seder Olam Zutta 7:1

Seder Olam Zutta 7:1

And in the eleventh year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon exiled him. And he died in his captivity, to fulfill what is said, "He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey" (Jeremiah 22:19). He exiled Jerusalem and all the officials, and from Benjamin and from the rest of the tribes seven thousand exiles, all of them warriors who make war. And after him reigned Jehoiachin his son three months and ten days. Seraiah was High Priest, and Jeremiah was prophet. And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon exiled him, he and eighteen thousand with him, and he made Zedekiah king, the brother of his father, son of Josiah, and he reigned eleven years. Until the year three thousand three hundred and thirty-eight from creation. Jehozadak, brother of Ezra the Scribe, was High Priest. Jeremiah and Ezekiel were prophets. In the ninth year of his reign the army of Babylon came against Jerusalem and encamped against it and built a siege-wall around it, and the city came under siege until the eleventh year of his reign. And in that year Judah was exiled from its land. That was the year eight hundred and fifty from their entry into the land, and eight hundred and ninety from their departure from the land of Egypt, and the year three thousand three hundred and thirty-eight from the creation of the world. And there remained of the house of David none but Jeconiah alone. And he begot Shealtiel and Malkiram and Pedaiah and Gemariah; they were thirty-eight families. And Nebuchadnezzar reigned until the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, until the year three thousand three hundred and sixty-four from creation. Nebuchadnezzar died and Evil-merodach his son reigned twenty-three years. In the first year of his reign he brought Jehoiachin out of the house of imprisonment. And afterward he died in Babylon, after the death of Zedekiah. Shealtiel son of Jehoiachin, the sages spoke of him in the exile. And Belshazzar reigned three years. And Shealtiel died, and after him stood Zerubbabel his son, in the fifty-second year after the destruction of the Temple, which was the seventieth year of the kingdom of Babylon. Darius the Mede reigned, and the kingdom of the Chaldeans came to an end. And Zerubbabel went up to Jerusalem, and his exiles with him, in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia. And Joshua son of Jehozadak was High Priest. And Haggai and Zechariah and Ezra were prophets. Ahasuerus arose and halted the work of the Temple and sought to uproot Israel, and the Holy One, blessed be He, uprooted him and the wicked Haman from the world. In the eighteenth year of the Mede, which was the seventieth year after the destruction of the Temple, Ezra the Scribe went up to Jerusalem and another exile with him, and he built the walls of Jerusalem and prepared the Temple, and Zerubbabel returned to Babylon and died there. And after him stood Meshullam his son. And in his days the kingdom of Greece reigned, in the fifty-second year of the Mede and Persian. And Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi died. At that time prophecy ceased from Israel. That was the year three thousand four hundred and forty-two from the creation of the world. From here onward incline your ear and hear the words of the sages.

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