OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 25:28

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and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

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Verse 28. Kings, who had been made captives. Adonibezec had 70. Judges 1:7. Alexander kept Porus and Taxilus at his court, as Cyrus and done Crœsus, whom he treated with great distinction. The prosperity of Joachin does not seem to have been of long continuance, as his benefactor did not reign above two (verse 27.) or three years. Daniel 8:1.

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