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Jeremías 52

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1 Era Sedequías de edad de veintiún años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó once años en Jerusalén. Su madre se llamaba Hamutal, hija de Jeremías, de Libna.

2 E hizo lo malo en los ojos del SEÑOR, conforme a todo lo que hizo Joacim.

3 Porque a causa de la ira del SEÑOR contra Jerusalén y Judá, hasta echarlos de su presencia, Sedequías se rebeló contra el rey de Babilonia.

4 Aconteció por tanto a los nueve años de su reinado, en el mes décimo, a los diez días del mes, que vino Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia, él y todo su ejército, contra Jerusalén, y asentaron sobre ella campo, y de todas partes edificaron sobre ella baluartes en todas partes.

5 Y estuvo cercada la ciudad hasta el undécimo año del rey Sedequías.

6 En el mes cuarto, a los nueve del mes, prevaleció el hambre en la ciudad, hasta no haber pan para el pueblo de la tierra.

7 Y fue entrada la ciudad, y todos los hombres de guerra huyeron, y se salieron de la ciudad de noche por el camino del postigo que está entre los dos muros, que estaban cerca del jardín del rey, y se fueron por el camino del desierto, estando aún los caldeos junto a la ciudad alrededor.

8 Y el ejército de los caldeos siguió al rey, y prendieron a Sedequías en los llanos de Jericó; y se esparció de él todo su ejército.

9 Prendieron pues, al rey, y le hicieron venir al rey de Babilonia, a Ribla en tierra de Hamat, y pronunció contra él sentencia.

10 Y degolló el rey de Babilonia a los hijos de Sedequías delante de sus ojos, y también degolló a todos los príncipes de Judá en Ribla.

11 Pero a Sedequías le sacó los ojos, y le puso en grillos, y el rey de Babilonia lo hizo llevar a Babilonia; y lo puso en la casa de la cárcel hasta el día en que murió.

12 Y en el mes quinto, a los diez del mes, que era el año diecinueve del reinado de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, vino a Jerusalén Nabuzaradán, capitán de la guardia, que solía estar delante del rey de Babilonia.

13 Y encendió a fuego la Casa del SEÑOR, y la Casa del rey, y todas las casas de Jerusalén; y toda Casa grande quemó con fuego.

14 Y todo el ejército de los caldeos, que venía con el capitán de la guardia, destruyó todos los muros de Jerusalén en derredor.

15 E hizo transportar Nabuzaradán, capitán de la guardia, a los pobres del pueblo, y a toda la otra gente vulgar que en la ciudad habían quedado, y a los fugitivos que habían huido al rey de Babilonia, y a todo el resto de la multitud vulgar.

16 Mas de los pobres del país dejó Nabuzaradán, capitán de la guardia, para viñadores y labradores.

17 Y los caldeos quebraron las columnas de bronce que estaban en la Casa del SEÑOR, y las basas, y el mar de bronce que estaba en la Casa del SEÑOR, y llevaron todo el bronce a Babilonia.

18 Se llevaron también los calderos, y los badiles, y los salterios, y las bacines, y los cucharros, y todos los vasos de bronce con que se servían.

19 Y las copas, e incensarios, y bacines, y ollas, y candeleros, y escudillas, y tazas; lo que de oro de oro, y lo que de plata de plata, llevó el capitán de la guardia.

20 Dos columnas, un mar, y doce bueyes de bronce que estaban debajo de las basas, que hizo el rey Salomón en la Casa del SEÑOR; no se podía pesar el bronce de todos estos vasos.

21 En cuanto a las columnas, la altura de una columna era de dieciocho codos, y un hilo de doce codos la rodeaba; y su grueso era de cuatro dedos, de vaciadizo.

22 Y el capitel de bronce que estaba sobre ella, era de altura de cinco codos, con una red y granadas en el capitel alrededor, todo de bronce; y lo mismo era lo de la segunda columna con sus granadas.

23 Había noventa y seis granadas en cada orden; todas ellas eran cien sobre la red alrededor.

24 Tomó también el capitán de la guardia a Seraías principal sacerdote, y a Sofonías segundo sacerdote, y tres guardas de la puerta.

25 Y de la ciudad tomó un eunuco que era capitán sobre los hombres de guerra, y siete hombres de los continuos del rey, que se hallaron en la ciudad; y al principal escribano de la guerra, que ponía por lista el pueblo de la tierra para la guerra; y sesenta hombres del vulgo de la tierra, que se hallaron dentro de la ciudad.

26 Los tomó Nabuzaradán, capitán de la guardia, y los llevó al rey de Babilonia a Ribla.

27 Y el rey de Babilonia los hirió, y los mató en Ribla en tierra de Hamat; y Judá fue transportado de su tierra.

28 Este es el pueblo que Nabucodonosor hizo transportar: En el año séptimo, tres mil veintitrés judíos:

29 En el año dieciocho hizo Nabucodonosor, transportar de Jerusalén ochocientas treinta y dos personas.

30 El año veintitrés de Nabucodonosor, transportó Nabuzaradán capitán de la guardia, setecientas cuarenta y cinco personas de los judíos; todas las personas son cuatro mil seiscientas.

31 Y acaeció que en el año treinta y siete de la cautividad de Joaquín rey de Judá, en el mes duodécimo, a los veinticinco del mes, Evil-merodac, rey de Babilonia, en el año primero de su reinado, alzó la cabeza de Joaquín rey de Judá y lo sacó de la casa de la cárcel;

32 y habló con él amigablemente, e hizo poner su silla sobre las sillas de los reyes que estaban con él en Babilonia.

33 Y le hizo mudar las ropas de su cárcel, y comía pan delante de él siempre todos los días de su vida.

34 Y continuamente se le daba ración por el rey de Babilonia, cada cosa en su día por todos los de su vida, hasta el día que murió.

   

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"Samson Captured by the Philistines" by Guercino

War in the Word represents the combat of temptation when good loves are assaulted by evil loves or false ideas. The evil that attacks comes from one of the many societies of hell, and it operates by arousing a selfish love in our mind that is contrary to what we know is right. Then our selfish love attacks the love that nourishes the wish to be a good person, and there is war in our minds. This is represented by wars that the children of Israel fought in and around the land of Canaan, of which there is a long history in the old testament. The selfish loves abound in our minds from our heredity, and the good loves come along with our conscience as it develops. If we had no conscience we couldn't be tempted; we would immediately follow the wishes of our selfishness and give in. But then the end result is that we are in slavery to the hells and will do whatever they want.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 1659 [3], 1664, 1683, 1788 [2])

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1664. That the wars in this chapter mean in the internal sense nothing other than spiritual conflicts, which are temptations, has been stated already in the preliminary section. 1 Nor do the wars in the rest of the Word, especially in the Prophets, have any other meaning. Wars waged by men can have no place whatever in the internal parts of the Word, for such things as wars are not the spiritual and celestial things which alone constitute the Word. That 'wars' in the Word means conflicts with the devil, or what amounts to the same, with hell, becomes clear from the following places besides many others: In John,

They are spirits of demons, performing signs, to go out to the kings of the land and of the whole earth, to assemble them for the war of that great day of God Almighty. Revelation 16:14.

Here anyone may see that no other kind of war on the great day of God Almighty is meant.

[2] In the same book,

The beast that comes up from the Abyss will make war. Revelation 11:7.

Here 'the Abyss' is hell. In the same book,

The dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her seed, who kept the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17.

It 2 was allowed to make war on the saints. Revelation 13:7.

All these wars are conflicts such as constitute temptations. Nor are the wars of the kings of the south and of the north, and the other wars of Daniel 8, 11, and also those involving Michael, Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1; Revelation 12:7, anything different.

[3] That wars have no other meaning is clear from the rest of the Prophets as well, as in Ezekiel,

You have not gone up into the breaches and made a hedge for the house of Israel, to stand in war on the day of Jehovah. Ezekiel 13:5.

This refers to the prophets. In Isaiah,

They will beat their swords into hoes, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4.

Clearly no other wars [than spiritual wars] are meant here, and therefore instruments of war, such as swords, spears, shields, and many others, mean nothing else in the Word than things that belong to such wars.

[4] In the same prophet,

To the thirsty bring water; O inhabitants of the land of Tema, meet with his bread the fugitive, 3 for they will flee 4 before the swords, before the drawn sword, and before the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. Isaiah 21:14-15.

In Jeremiah,

Shepherds and their flocks will come against the daughter of Zion, they will pitch their tents against her round about; they will graze, each off his own space. Declare a sacred war against her; arise and let us go up at noon. Jeremiah 6:3-5.

Here, since it is waged against 'the daughter of Zion', that is, the Church, no other kind of war is meant.

[5] In the same prophet,

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of My joy? Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut down on that day. Jeremiah 49:25-26.

'The city of praise and of joy' stands for the things that belong to the Church, 'the men of war' for those who fight.

[6] In Hosea,

I will make for them a covenant on that day, with the wild animals of the field, and with the birds of the air, 5 and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish 6 the bow, and the sword, and war from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety. Hosea 2:18.

Here similarly 'war' stands for conflicts, and the various instruments of war stand for the things belonging to spiritual conflict which are 'broken' when a person comes into the calmness of peace as evil desires and falsities come to an end.

[7] In David,

Behold the works of Jehovah who makes solitary places in the earth, making wars cease even to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and snaps the spear, He burns the chariots with fire. Psalms 46:8-9.

Here too the meaning is similar. In the same author,

In Salem is the dwelling-place of God, and His habitation in Zion. There He broke the bow's fiery arrows, the shield and the sword, and war. Psalms 76:2-3.

Because the priests represented the Lord who alone fights on man's behalf, their duties are called military service, Numbers 4:23, 35, 39, 43, 47.

[8] It is a constant truth that Jehovah alone, that is, the Lord, fights and overcomes the devil present with a person when he is involved in the conflicts brought by temptations, even though to that person this does not appear to be so. For evil spirits have no power at all to exert the slightest influence on man unless they are permitted to do so, and angels cannot act to avert anything at all unless enabled to do so by the Lord. Thus it is the Lord alone who endures every conflict and overcomes, something that was also represented at various times by the wars that the children of Israel waged against the nations. That He alone does so is also stated in Moses,

Jehovah your God is going 7 before you, He Himself will fight for you. Deuteronomy 1:30.

In the same book,

Jehovah your God is going 7 with you to fight for you with your enemies, to save you. Deuteronomy 20:4.

[9] So too in Joshua, such as 23:3, 5. For all the wars that were being waged at that time against the idolatrous inhabitants of the land of Canaan represented the Lord's conflicts with hell, and consequently the conflicts of His Church, and of members of the Church. This also accords with the following statements in Isaiah,

As the lion roars, and the young lion, over its prey (when a multitude of shepherds run towards him he is not dismayed by their voice nor daunted by the tumult they make) so Jehovah Zebaoth will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. Isaiah 31:4.

[10] For the same reasons also Jehovah, or the Lord, is called 'a Man of War', as in Moses,

Jehovah is a Man of War, Jehovah is His name. Exodus 15:3.

In Isaiah,

Jehovah will go forth as a Mighty Man, as a Man of Wars. He will stir up zeal; He will cry out, yes, He will shout aloud, He will prevail over His enemies. Isaiah 42:13.

This also is why many things that war entails are attributed to the Lord, such as 'crying out', and 'shouting aloud' here.

[11] Spirits and angels also appear as men of war, when a representation is being made, as in Joshua,

Joshua lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a man was standing before him, with his sword drawn in his hand. He said to Joshua, I am the Prince of the army of Jehovah; and Joshua fell on his face 8 to the earth. Joshua 5:13-14.

These things were seen taking the form they did because they were representative, and this also is why descendants of Jacob called their wars the Wars of ]Jehovah.

It was similar in the Ancient Churches among whom there were books which also were called The Wars of Jehovah, as is clear in Moses.

It is said in the Book of the Wars of Jehovah. Numbers 21:14-15.

These were written about in a way not unlike the wars described in this chapter; but wars involving the Church were meant. Such a manner of writing was common in those times, for they were interior men and their thoughts were of more exalted things.

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1. i.e. in 1659

2. i.e. the beast

3. literally, the wanderer

4. literally, they will wander

5. literally,. bird of the heavens (or the skies)

6. literally, break

7. literally, walking

8. literally, faces

  
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