[881] See Rawlinson, Kings of Israel and Judah, p. 236.
[882] Lam. iv. 22.
[883] Psalm lxxix, 1.
[884] Obad. 14-16; Psalm cxxxvii. 7; 1 Esdras iv. 45.
[885] Comp. Esther i. 14.
[886] On these personages see 1 Chron. vi. 13, 14; 2 Kings xxii. 4; Ezra vii. 1; Jer. xxi. 1, xxxvii. 3, etc.
[887] Nebuchadrezzar had no doubt needed them for his great buildings at Babylon, and their deportation would render more difficult any attempt to refortify Jerusalem.
[888] Jer. xli. 8, xl. 12.
[889] Jer. lii. 28-30. In his seventh year, 3,023; in his eighteenth, 832 in his thirty-third, 745 = 4,600.
[890] Ramah was but five miles from Jerusalem, and at first Jeremiah may not have been identified (Jer. xl. 1-6).