He was among the eight or ten thousand able men exiled to Babylonia after the siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC (2 Kgs. 24, 14, 16). (Evidently other family members were not counted in the census.) The last dated formula in the book is March/April 571 (29, 17 ), which introduces a promise that Babylonia will plunder Egypt. The time span between the first and the last oracle is twenty-two years.
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