Him, and his son, and his son's son] meaning simply that there was to be no speedy riddance. In point of fact, Nebuchadnezzar had three successors, Evil-Merodach, Neriglissar, and Nabonidus, in whose seventeenth year Babylon was taken by Cyrus. The very time] the appointed end.

Great kings] Persia and Media became masters of Babylon.

9-11. Rebellion will entail exile. Therefore let them submit.

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