“Who had been exiled from Jerusalem with the exile that was exiled with Yekhonya king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylonia exiled” (Esther 2:6).“Who had been exiled from Jerusalem” – Rabbi Berekhya, and Rabbi Yirmeya, and Rabbi Ḥiyya in the name of Rabbi Yosei said: When Rabbi Yonatan and the Rabbis would reach this verse: “…whom Nebuchadnezzar [king of Babylon] exiled,” they would say: Nebuchadnezzar, may his bones be crushed. Why didn’t they say so in the book of Jeremiah? It is only because in every mention of Nebuchadnezzar in Jeremiah, he was alive; here however, he was dead.
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