55
And they burned the house of the Lord and broke down the walls of Jerusalem and burned their towers with fire,
56
and utterly destroyed all its glorious things. The survivors he led away to Babylon with the sword,
57
and they were servants to him and to his sons until the Persians began to reign, in fulfilment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah:
58
"Until the land has enjoyed its sabbaths, it shall keep sabbath all the time of its desolation until the completion of seventy years."
1Esdr.2
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