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The final chapter of the Book of Jeremiah expounds on in further detail, a moment that secular history ignores, but is covered in Israel's history a total of (counting this chapter) four times, making it a detail that is important to acknowledge, considering its repetition. Whenever anything is repeated in the Bible, it is to emphasize the importance of a theme or event. This chapter revisits the moment where King Zedekiah was confronted by King Nebuchadnezzar, who murdered his sons in front of him, gouged out his eyes, and took him prisoner in Babylon till the day he died. This event would be recorded in 2 Chronicles 36:11-19, 2 Kings 24:18-25:30, and Jeremiah chapter 39. This assembly of facts was to show the sober reality of Jeremiah's warnings and prophecy to King Zedekiah (warned about in Jeremiah chapter 32) would be fulfilled and that fulfillment would ultimately obliterate anything, and everything said by the false prophets at that time. Also, chapter 52 gives further details regarding Nebuzaradan, who was the captain of the guard of Babylon's military. Such details, when taken into account, reveal God's power and hand in the details of history. And finally, in this Bible Study, our panel discusses key takeaways and life changing truths that they learned in thoroughly studying the Book of Jeremiah.