Reasons why it cannot be admitted that the Captivity of Judah (alias the 70 years Captivity) began in the third year of Jehoiakim.Reasons why it cannot be admitted that the Captivity of Judah (alias the 70 yeeres Captivity) began in the third yeere of Iehoiakim.

Reasons why it cannot be admitted that the Captivity of Judah (alias the 70 years Captivity) began in the third year of Jehoiakim.

Reasons why it cannot be admitted that the Captivity of Judah (alias the 70 yeeres Captivity) began in the third yeere of Iehoiakim.

First, because the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar; How then could Nebuchadnezzar ¹come up in the third of Jehoiakim? And to say that Nebuchadnezzar began to reign and came up in the end of the third of Jehoiakim, is contrary to the Text alleged, and also against reason; For what man can imagine, that Nebuchadnezzar should receive his Crown, raise immediately a mighty ⟨p. 23⟩host, subdue all Syria, march afterwards with an ²Army into Judea: (which is near 400. miles from Babylon) the very sight whereof caused Jehoiakim to become his servant, and all this to be done in the very ³end of the third of Jehoiakim?

First, because the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim was the first yeere of Nebuchadnezzar; How then could Nebuchadnezzar ¹come up in the third of Iehoiakim? And to say that Nebuchadnezzar began to reign and came up in the end of the third of Iehoiakim, is contrary to the Text alleadged, and also against reason; For what man can imagine, that Nebuchadnezzar should receive his Crowne, raise immediately a mighty ⟨p. 23⟩host, subdue all Syria, march afterwards with an ²