- verses
- 1
- first named
- Jeremiah 39:13
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Nebushazban?
Nebushazban, also known as Nebushazban the Rabsaris, was a Babylonian official mentioned in Jer.39.13. He was one of the high-ranking officers in the army of King Nebuchadnezzar II during the siege and conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
After the Babylonian army had breached the walls of Jerusalem and captured the city, Nebushazban was among the officials who entered the city. Along with Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, and other Babylonian officers, Nebushazban was involved in the decision-making process regarding the fate of the city and its inhabitants.
According to Jer.39.13, Nebushazban, along with the other officials, sent for the prophet Jeremiah and had him released from the court of the guard where he had been confined. This action was in accordance with the instructions given by King Nebuchadnezzar, who had ordered that Jeremiah be protected and treated well (Jer.39.11-12).
Apart from this brief mention, no further information is provided about Nebushazban's background, specific role, or personal characteristics. His presence in the biblical narrative serves to highlight the involvement of high-ranking Babylonian officials in the events surrounding the fall of Jerusalem and the treatment of Jeremiah during this turbulent time.
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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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Where Nebushazban is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Jeremiah (1).
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