Lamentations 1:1 References

1 How alonely sits the city That was bfull of people! She has become like a cwidow Who was once dgreat among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces Has become a eforced laborer!

e 2 Kings 23:35, Jeremiah 40:9


2 Kings 23

35 So Jehoiakim agave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

Jeremiah 40

9 Then Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, aswore to them and to their men, saying, "bDo not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans; stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, that it may go well with you.

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