Sep 7, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
\# 237 - Nebuchadnezer Attacks - In this episode of The Chosen People, As Judah unravels after Josiah, Jehoahaz is seized, Jehoiakim bows to Egypt, Jeremiah’s scroll burns—and a new name rises from…
Previously on The Chosen People
This judgment is not the rage of a tyrant.
It is the heartbreak of a father whose children have thrown themselves into danger.
You call it wrath.
But what is wrath if not love betrayed? If not justice for the oppressed, for the children who screamed as they burned? Then I will burn their gods before they burn my people.
Lord Necho of Egypt declares, What quarrel is there, King of Judah, between you and me? I do not come against you today, but against the house with which I am at war.
God has commanded me to hurry.
Stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will destroy you.
The battlefield was loud, which made Josiah's silence all the louder.
Horses screamed, chariots thundered, bronze clashed against bone.
And then it happened.
No trumpet, no flash, no divine sign.
Just the cold, stupid reality of war.
An archer, Egyptian, probably not even aiming, let fly.
The arrow soared unnoticed until it buried itself in the king's side.
Josiah gasped.
Sigh.
He tried with all his heart, but no man can save Judah, not yet.
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