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- first named
- Jeremiah 39:3
- last named
- Jeremiah 39:3
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- Divided Monarchy
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Description
Who was Samgar?
Samgar is mentioned in Jer.39.3 as one of the Babylonian officials who were present at the fall of Jerusalem during the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah. The context of this passage describes the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem, which occurred after a prolonged siege (Jer.39.1-2). When the city wall was breached, the Babylonian officials entered the city and took up positions at the Middle Gate (Jer.39.3). Samgar is listed among these officials, along with Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and other officials of the king of Babylon. The exact role or position of Samgar within the Babylonian hierarchy is not specified in the text. However, his presence among the officials at the fall of Jerusalem indicates that he was a person of some importance in the Babylonian administration. The fall of Jerusalem and the subsequent exile of the Judahites to Babylon was a significant event in the history of Israel, marking the end of the Davidic monarchy and the beginning of the Babylonian captivity, which lasted for 70 years (Jer.25.11-12).
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A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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