"The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, / Was caught in their pits, / Of whom we said, “Under his shadow / We shall live among the nations.”"
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Zedekiah
Zedekiah (618 BC – after 586 BC) was the twentieth and final King of Judah before the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.
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