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remained with the poor. But a certain Ishmael, after two months, being persuaded by the king of the Ammonites, along with some others, came to Mizpah, and killed Gedaliah and the Chaldeans and Jews who were with him; among them he also killed 80 men from Samaria and the rest of Judea who were mourning the capture of the temple and bringing offerings; But a certain Johanan, taking the remnant of the Jews, though Jeremiah tried to prevent him, and Jeremiah against his will, fled with them to Vaphres, the king of the Egyptians; where again Jeremiah prophesies to them the things concerning the final capture and destruction that would come upon them along with the Egyptians by the Chaldeans, which also happened in the 28th year of Nebuchadnezzar, from which to the first year of Cyrus 40 years are completed, according to the prophecy of Ezekiel. These, having practiced idolatry in Egypt and being reproved by the great Jeremiah, stoned him. The years of this complete captivity and burning are numbered from this point, that is, from the 11th year of Zedekiah, and of the world 4003. And according to the precise account, from the 20th year of Nebuchadnezzar until the 269 1st year of the reign of Cyrus, the years are as follows: Nebuchadnezzar, the remaining 24 years; for he reigned 43 years in all over the Chaldeans, and from his 19th year he also reigned over the Jews; the remaining years are 24. After him his son, called Evil-Merodach, reigned for 2 years after the death of his father Nebuchadnezzar, as Alexander and Abydenus, who wrote the Chaldean histories, testify, whom Josephus and all others follow in these matters, with which the divine scripture also agrees. This Evil-Merodach, because of his great lawlessness and licentiousness in his affairs, was killed by Neriglissar, his brother-in-law, who succeeded him and reigned for 4 years over the Chaldeans and Jews and the rest. After him they say his son Laborosoarchod held power for 9 months, and was conspired against by his friends because of his evil ways. But the divine scriptures make no mention of him, nor do most place him in the chronological canons; others count his time together with the years of his father Neriglissar, summing them up to 5 instead of 4. After him, those who conspired against him, by common consent, gave the kingdom to one of their conspiracy, Nabonnedus, who was called Assuerus Darius and also Astyages, in whose 17th year of his reign, Cyrus, having come out of Persia with a great force and having seized all the rest of the empire by war, besieged Astyages himself, who after a fierce battle had fled to Babylon, which had been fortified by him with much baked brick and asphalt, captured him and tore down the walls, treating him humanely and giving him the land of Carmania as a dwelling place. These things, says Josephus, also have the truth in agreement with our books; for it is written in them that Nebuchadnezzar in the 18th year of his reign laid waste our temple, and it was desolate for 50 years. and in the second year of the reign of Cyrus its foundations were laid, and it was completed in the 6th of the reign of Darius. Therefore, from the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar there are 25 years. Of Evil-Merodach his son, 2 years. Of Neriglissar his son-in-law, 5 years, including the 9 months of his child. 270 Of Nabonnedus, also called Assuerus Darius and Astyages, 17 years. Of Cyrus, 1st year, in which also the first release occurred. Altogether 50 years. Eusebius, however, listed Astyages from this time of Zedekiah as having reigned over the Medes for 38 years, that is from the 12th year of Nebuchadnezzar until the 5th year of Neriglissar; counting this 5th year as the first year of the reign of Cyrus in his canon, and the 31st year of the captivity under Zedekiah, and not at all counting the 17 years of Darius Astyages, which other ecclesiastical historians have also done, then he listed 30 years for Cyrus, and after him 8 years for Cambyses, then 7 months for the 2 Magi brothers, and the 1st year of Darius Hystaspes. This makes a total of 70 years from the 4th year of Zedekiah.

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μᾶλλον τοῖς πένησι συναπέμεινεν. Ἰσμαὴλ δέ τις μετὰ δύο μῆνας ἀναπεισθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως Ἀμανιτῶν ἅμα τισὶν ἄλλοις ἐπελθὼν εἰς Μασσίφατον, Γοδολίαν ἀναιρεῖ καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ Χαλδαίους καὶ Ἰουδαίους· ἐν οἷς καὶ πʹ ἄνδρας ἀπὸ Σαμαρείας καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς Ἰουδαίας πενθοῦντας τὴν ἅλωσιν τοῦ ναοῦ καὶ προσφορὰς προσάγοντας συνανεῖλεν· Ἰωνᾶς δέ τις παραλαβὼν τοὺς καταλοίπους τῶν Ἰουδαίων, Ἱερεμίουκωλύοντος αὐτόν, καὶ Ἱερεμίαν ἄκοντα, προσφεύγει σὺν αὐτοῖς Οὐαφρεὶ τῷ Αἰγυπτίων βασιλεῖ· ἔνθα πάλιν προφητεύει Ἱερεμίας αὐτοῖς τὰ τῆς ἐσχάτης ἁλώσεως καὶ ἀπωλείας ἅμα τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις ἐσόμενα ὑπὸ Χαλδαίων, ἃ καὶ γέγονε τῷ κηʹ ἔτει Ναβουχοδονόσωρ, ἀφ' οὗ ἐπὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἔτος Κύρου πληροῦται ἔτη μʹ κατὰ τὴν προφητείαν Ἰεζεκιήλ. οὗτοι εἰδωλολατρήσαντες ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἐλεγχόμενοί τε ὑπὸ τοῦ μεγάλου Ἱερεμίου ἐλιθοβόλησαν αὐτόν. Ταύτης τελείας αἰχμαλωσίας καὶ πυρπολήσεως ἔτη ἀπ' ἐντεῦθεν ἀριθμοῦνται, ἤγουν ἀπὸ τοῦ ιαʹ ἔτους Σεδεκίου, κόσμου δὲ δγʹ. καὶ εἰσὶ κατὰ τὸν ἀκριβῆ λόγον ἀπὸ τοῦ κʹ ἔτους Ναβουχοδονόσωρ ἕως τοῦ 269 αʹ ἔτους τῆς βασιλείας Κύρου ἔτη οὕτως· Ναβουχοδονόσωρ τὰ λοιπὰ ἔτη κδʹ· μγʹ γὰρ τὰ ὅλα ἐβασίλευσε Χαλδαίων, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ιθʹ ἔτους αὐτοῦ ἐβασίλευσε καὶ τῶν Ἰουδαίων· τὰ λοιπὰ ἔτη κδʹ. μετὰ τοῦτον ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ Εὐειλὰδ Μαροδὰχ λεγόμενος ἔτη βʹ μετὰ θάνατον τοῦ πατρὸς Ναβουχοδονόσωρ ἐβασίλευσεν, ὡς μαρτυροῦσιν οἱ τὰ Χαλδαϊκὰ συγγρα ψάμενοι Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ Ἀβυδηνός, οἷς καὶ Ἰώσηππος καὶ πάντες ἐντούτοις ἕπονται, συμφωνούσης καὶ τῆς θείας γραφῆς. Τοῦτον τὸν Εὐειλὰδ Μαροδὰχ διὰ πολλὴν περὶ τὰ πράγματα παρανομίαν καὶ ἀσέλγειαν Νιριγλήσαρος γαμβρὸς αὐτοῦ ἐπ' ἀδελφῇ ἀνελὼν διεδέξατο, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη δʹ Χαλδαίων καὶ Ἰουδαίων καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν. μεθ' ὃν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Λαβοσάροχόν φασιν ἐπὶ μῆνας θʹ κρατῆσαι τῆς ἀρχῆς, καὶ διὰ τρόπων κακοήθειαν ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων ἐπιβουλευθῆναι. τούτου δὲ μνήμην αἱ θεῖαι γραφαὶ οὐ ποιοῦνται, οὐδὲ ἐν χρονικοῖς κανονίοις αὐτὸν οἱ πολλοὶ τάττουσιν· ἕτεροι τοῖς χρόνοις τοῦ πατρὸς Νιριγλησάρου συναριθμοῦσιν ἀντὶ δʹ εʹ συνάγοντες. μετὰ τοῦτον παρέθηκαν τὴν βασιλείαν οἱ ἐπιβου λεύσαντες αὐτῷ κοινῇ γνώμῃ ἑνὶ τῶν ἐκ τῆς ἐπισυστάσεως αὐτῶν Ναβοννήδῳ τῷ Ἀσσουήρῳ ∆αρείῳ καλουμένῳ τῷ καὶ Ἀστυάγει, οὗ κατὰτὸ ιζʹ ἔτος τῆς βασιλείας Κῦρος ἐκ Περσίδος μετὰ δυνάμεως πολλῆς ἐξεληλυθὼς καὶ πᾶσαν καταλαβόμενος πολέμῳ τὴν λοιπὴν ἀρχήν, αὐτόν τε τὸν Ἀστυάγην μετὰ κρατερὰν μάχην προσφυγόντα τῇ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ τει χισθείσῃ πλείονος ἐξ ὀπτῆς πλίνθου καὶ ἀσφάλτου Βαβυλῶνι πολιορκήσας ἐχειρώσατο καὶ τὰ τείχη κατέσκαψε, φιλανθρώπως αὐτῷ χρησάμενος καὶ χώραν Καρμανίαν δοὺς οἰκητήριον. Ταῦτα, φησὶν Ἰώσηππος, καὶ σύμφωνον ἔχει ταῖς ἡμετέραις βίβ λοις τὴν ἀλήθειαν· γέγραπται γὰρ ἐν αὐταῖς ὅτι Ναβουχοδονόσωρ ιηʹ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἔτει τὸν παρ' ἡμῖν ναὸν ἠρήμωσε, καὶ ἦν ἀφανὴς ἐπὶ ἔτη νʹ. δευτέρῳ δὲ τῆς Κύρου βασιλείας ἔτει τῶν θεμελίων ὑποβληθέν των, ςʹ πάλιν τῆς ∆αρείου βασιλείας ἐτελέσθη. εἰσὶν οὖν τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ ιθʹ ἔτους Ναβουχοδονόσωρ ἔτη κεʹ. Εὐειλὰδ Μαροδὰχ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτη βʹ. Νιριγλησάρου γαμβροῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτη εʹ, σὺν τοῖς θʹ μησὶ τοῦ παιδός. 270 Ναβοννήδου τοῦ καὶ Ἀσσουήρου ∆αρείου τοῦ καὶ Ἀστυάγους καλουμένου ἔτη ιζʹ. Κύρου αʹ ἔτος, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ἡ πρώτη ἄφεσις γέγονεν. ὁμοῦ ἔτη νʹ. Ὁ μέντοι Εὐσέβιος τὸν Ἀστυάγην ἀπὸ τοῦδε τοῦ Σεδεκίου ἐστοιχείωσε βασιλεύσαντα Μήδων ἔτη ληʹ, ἤτοι ἀπὸ τοῦ ιβʹ ἔτους Ναβουχοδονόσωρ ἕως τοῦ εʹ ἔτους Νιριγλησάρου· τούτου τὸ εʹ ἔτος λογισάμενος πρῶτον ἔτος τῆς Κύρου βασιλείας ἐν τῷ κανονίῳ αὐτοῦ, τῆς δὲ ἐπὶ Σεδεκίου αἰχ μαλωσίας ἔτος λαʹ, καὶ μηδ' ὅλως λογισάμενος τὰ ∆αρείου τοῦ Ἀστυά γους ἔτη ιζʹ, ὅπερ καὶ ἄλλοι τῶν ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἱστορικῶν πεποιή κασιν, εἶτα Κύρου λʹ ἐστοιχείωσε, καὶ μετ' αὐτοὺς Καμβύσου ἔτη ηʹ, ἔπειτα βʹ Μάγων ἀδελφῶν μῆνας ζʹ, καὶ ∆αρείου Ὑστάσπου ἔτος αʹ. γίνονται ὁμοῦ ἔτη οʹ ἀπὸ δʹ ἔτους Σεδεκίου.