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Because of the sins which you have committed before God, you will be led away captives to Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.
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Verse 2. Seven generations; that is, seventy years. Challoner.—A generation sometimes consisted of seven, ten, fifteen, thirty, thirty-five, fifty, or a hundred years. A. Lap. Menage.—Eighteen years of the seventy had already elapsed. Calmet.—Seven is often put for many, ( Bible.) or a general number, ( Worthington.) because so many days form a week. Bible.—Grotius substitutes δεκαδων for γενεων, “seven decads,” very properly. Houbigant.
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