A fact that seems to have escaped the Jews for all their not wisdom. You read it here just this week in that stolen tablet thread, the Jews were not exiled out of the promised land by God, Neb needed their help in getting his empire running a tad smoother rather than the Jews being punted like the OT promotes.
De:4:24-28:
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire,
even a jealous God.
When thou shalt beget children,
and children's children,
and ye shall have remained long in the land,
and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make a graven image,
or the likeness of any thing,
and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God,
to provoke him to anger:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it;
ye shall not prolong your days upon it,
but shall utterly be destroyed.
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations,
and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen,
whither the LORD shall lead you.
And there ye shall serve gods,
the work of men's hands,
wood and stone,
which neither see,
nor hear,
nor eat,
nor smell.
De:4:24-28:
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire,
even a jealous God.
When thou shalt beget children,
and children's children,
and ye shall have remained long in the land,
and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make a graven image,
or the likeness of any thing,
and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God,
to provoke him to anger:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it;
ye shall not prolong your days upon it,
but shall utterly be destroyed.
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations,
and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen,
whither the LORD shall lead you.
And there ye shall serve gods,
the work of men's hands,
wood and stone,
which neither see,
nor hear,
nor eat,
nor smell.
Jer:25:2-13:
The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah,
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
saying,
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah,
even unto this day,
that is the three and twentieth year,
the word of the LORD hath come unto me,
and I have spoken unto you,
rising early and speaking;
but ye have not hearkened.
And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them;
but ye have not hearkened,
nor inclined your ear to hear.
They said,
Turn ye again now every one from his evil way,
and from the evil of your doings,
and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
And go not after other gods to serve them,
and to worship them,
and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands;
and I will do you no hurt.
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me,
saith the LORD;
that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Because ye have not heard my words,
Behold,
I will send and take all the families of the north,
saith the LORD,
and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant,
and will bring them against this land,
and against the inhabitants thereof,
and against all these nations round about,
and will utterly destroy them,
and make them an astonishment,
and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth,
and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride,
the sound of the millstones,
and the light of the candle.
And this whole land shall be a desolation,
and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
And it shall come to pass,
when seventy years are accomplished,
that I will punish the king of Babylon,
and that nation,
saith the LORD,
for their iniquity,
and the land of the Chaldeans,
and will make it perpetual desolations.
And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it,
even all that is written in this book,
which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.