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Verse 9

During the winter of 604-603 B.C., the people, not the king, declared a fast. The occasion for the fast may have been the arrival of Babylonian armies on the Philistine plain or the Babylonians’ defeat of Ashkelon then. [Note: Harrison, Jeremiah and . . ., p. 151. See also D. J. Wiseman, Chronicles of Chaldean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum, p. 69.]

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