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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 4, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 1.

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1595.—From Babylon to Christ. Matt. 1:17.

Please explain Matt. 1:17. How many years was it from going away into Babylon to Christ? Z. J. M.
The first great captivity of the Jews to Babylon occurred in B.C. 606. Here began the seventy years’ captivity. Jerusalem was destroyed and many taken to Babylon B.C. 586. See 2 Chronicles 36. As Christ was born four years before, the first captivity was 602 years before Christ.