<p class="bodytext">At that time the generals<n id="1" /> of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.<n id="2" />

So Edom has remained free from Judah&#8217;s control to this very day.<n id="1" /> At that same time Libnah also rebelled.p>

At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and from the posts which he had plated<n id="1" /> and gave them to the king of Assyria.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time Merodach-Baladan<n id="1" /> son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was ill.

(At that time King Rezin of Syria<n id="1" /> recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there.<n id="2" /> Syrians<n id="3" /> arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.)