[646] Jerem. xxxvii. 5. Ezekiel prophesies the ruin of the Egyptians in the tenth month of the tenth year of his captivity, _i.e._ in the year 587 B.C.; in this year, no doubt, the march of the Egyptians took place. [647] Jerem. xxxvii. 6-10. [648] Jerem. xxxvii. 11-21. [649] Joseph. "Antiq." 10, 7, 1. Ezek. xvii. 17. At the beginning of the eleventh year of Zedekiah (586 B.C.), Ezekiel says: "I have broken the arm of Pharaoh," xxx. 21; cf. xxxi. 1. [650] 2 Kings xxv. 1-3. Jerem. lii. 4, 5. Cf. Ezek. iv. 2; xvii. 17; xxi. 21. [651] Jerem. xxxiii. 4. [652] Jerem. xxxviii. 4. [653] Jerem. xxxvii. 21; xxxviii. 28. [654] Jerem. xix. 9. Ezek. iv. 16, 17; v. 11, 12. Lamentations i. 19, 20; ii. 20; iv. 9, 10; ii. 11, 12. [655] Vol. II., p. 186. Jerem. xxxix. 3; lii. 6, 7. 2 Kings xxv. 3, 4. It was this outer wall of which the western front had to be pulled down for 400 cubits under Amaziah. Vol. II., p. 261. [656] The capture took place in the fourth month of the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, in the nineteenth of Nebuchadnezzar. Cf. Ideler, "Handbuch der Chronologie," 1, 529. Ezekiel, chap. xii. [657] Jerem. xxxix. 6, 7; lii. 11. 2 Kings xxv. 7. [658] Jerem. xxxix. 6, where the statement is quite general, "all the nobles of Judah also the king of Babylon slew;" and lii. 16, "all the princes of Judah also he slew at Riblah." [659] 2 Kings xxv. 13-17. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 18. Jerem. lii. 12-28. The ark of the covenant was not mentioned separately; it may have been already taken away in 597 B.C. [660] 2 Kings xxv. 8-11, 18-21. Jerem. xxxix. 9, 10. [661] Jerem. xl. 5-10. [662] Lamentations iv. 12; ii. 7; iv. 1. [663] Lamentations ii. 14-18; i. 12. [664] Lamentations v. 1-14. [665] Lamentations iv. 6. [666] Lamentations i. 7, 21, 22. [667] Lamentations v. 7, 21, 22. [668] Jerem. xl. 9. [669] Jerem. xl. 6. [670] Jerem. xl. 8. [671] Jerem. xxiv. 1, 8; chaps. xl.-xliv. Ezek. i. 1-3, &c. [672] The announcements of Ezekiel, chaps, xxix.-xxxii., belong to the period from the tenth to the twelfth year of the captivity, _i.e._ to the years 587 to 585 B.C. [673] Daphne in Herod. 2, 30, 107. [674] Jerem. xliii. 8-13; xliv. 30.