Or Tiglath-Pileser III, another one of the
Assyrian kings, he received tribute from Jehoahaz
and Menahem and also overthrew Pekah, references
to kings in the Bible, which kings in the
Bible said they had contact with them.
And the same event is being talked about in
an external form.
Even another one came and said, “I shut
up Hezekiah like a bird in cage and took 46
cities.”
Well, that event is also recorded in the Bible.
And so on and on they go.
Jehoiachin or Jechoniah was taken off into
Babylon.
At the famous Ishtar Gate in Babylon which
has now been recreated, by the way, to half
its size on that big processional street.
This Babylon covers 25 acres.
The mighty Euphrates River used to go right
through the center of town, 600 feet across.
With a suspension bridge with chains going
across the whole river with two piers on opposite
shore, 30 foot lane to go across the center
of the city so that you could get to both
sides of the city, and with ferries in the
north and ferries in the south.
An enormously beautiful city.
No wonder they talked about the Hanging Gardens
which they’re trying to recreate again as
being one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
What was there in the Ishtar gate?
Guess what we found?
We found a tablet naming Jehoiachin king of
Judah with his five sons and their daily rations.
That’s exactly what 2 Kings 24:12-15 talked
about.
And again, almost a carbon copy but buried
in the very famous Ishtar Gate.
And the same thing, too, about the Lachish
letters.
We were there digging at the site in south
Judah and here is Lachish and their letters.
Letters about “we can’t see the fire anymore
from Azekah.
That must have been taken now, too.
Things are bad.
And there’s a prophet here who weakens the
hands of the men of war.”
Weakens the hands of the men of war?
Oops.
Wait a minute.
Jeremiah 38:4.
“Jeremiah, you weaken the hands of the men
of war.”
Same phrase.
Same phrase.
Is that prophet, though he doesn’t name
him, he gives the same phrase about that one.
Well, are you convinced yet or shall I keep
on boring you to death?
It flows, folks, it really does.
And I didn’t invent this stuff.
This is straight dirt, and I want you to know
that it came right out of the ground.
So this is the ground of all being here and
this particular subject.
