...fact, the neglect of it, for four hundred and ninety years, occasioned the transportation to Babylon, " until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths ; for as long...desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years."80 Connected closely with the sabbatical year was the Jubilee, or year of release. It bore the...

...them that escaped the sword carried he away to Babylon ; where they were servants to him and his sons, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah the prophet, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths ; for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath,...

...captive into Babylon, because of their transgressions, "until the land," as it is strikingly written, "had enjoyed her Sabbaths; for as long as she lay...kept Sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years." [II Chronicles xxxvi. 21]. And this, probably, was the very amount of time of which her fields had...

...when ye dwelt upon it." With this passage we compare the following of 2 Chronicles xxxvi. 21 : — " To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah...long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil three score and ten years." The special object of the captivity of Babylon had been attained by the...

...when ye dwelt upon it." With this passage we compare the following of 2 Chronicles xxxvi. 21 : — " To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah...long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil three score and ten years." The special object of the captivity of Babylon had been attained by the...

...the books, but to a fact therein recorded. J * 2Chron. xxxvi. 20-23; comp. 2 Kings xxv. 22-30.—"To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,...she kept Sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years " (21) ; from this, it would seem, we are to infer that, in the opinion of the writer, the institution...

...prophesied by himself, and we have seen, by Moses. The records of Israel observe that this was fulfilled, for as long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath to fulfil threescore and ten years. 2 Ch. xxxvi. 21. Now, Nebuchadnezzar, second of Babylon, carried Jechoniah of Judah captive, AM 3408....

...Babylon ; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia : 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah,...kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. 22 If Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth...

...servants to him and his sons until the rise of the kingdom of Persia, "in fulfilment of the word of Yahwfe by the mouth of Jeremiah, 'until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths; all the days that she lay waste she rested, to the completion of seventy years.' Ezr. i:iu 1' BU*-...

...they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years. "Now in the...