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Isaiah 65:15

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65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. 1 

The sovereign Lord will kill you,

but he will give his servants another name.

Jeremiah 29:22

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29:22 And all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use them as examples when they put a curse on anyone. They will say, “May the Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted to death in the fire!” 2 
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[65:15]  1 tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”

[29:22]  2 sn Being roasted to death in the fire appears to have been a common method of execution in Babylon. See Dan 3:6, 19-21. The famous law code of the Babylonian king Hammurabi also mandated this method of execution for various crimes a thousand years earlier. There is a satirical play on words involving their fate, “roasted them to death” (קָלָם, qalam), and the fact that that fate would become a common topic of curse (קְלָלָה, qÿlalah) pronounced on others in Babylon.



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