Message Take Aways: 

1. The people of Judah were carried away into Babylonian captivity due to their stubborn rebellion against God’s word, just as the Lord had continually forewarned them—“And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.” Deuteronomy 28:63

2. The kingdom of Judah suffered a violent collapse as the Babylonians destroyed the temple, burned the city, pillaged the treasures, and killed their leaders—“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” Matthew 7:26-27

3. The Lord showed compassion toward His people by bestowing favor upon King Jehoiachin even in the midst of the Babylonian captivity—“For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.” Jeremiah 29:10