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• But the people do not believe Jeremiah. Just as Hezekiah had withstood the might of the Assyrian army a few generations earlier, the people assume that God will vanquish the Babylonians this time round as well. But the people were mistaken. Jeremiah was right, because Jeremiah was a faithful prophet of the living God.
• Ezekiel the prophet is also sent to plead with the people. At the command of God, he turns himself into a living parable, faithfully portraying all the terrifying events that would happen to Jerusalem, and how the Babylonians would conquer Israel and take the people captive. But the people would not believe.
• And so, the inevitable happened. The Babylonians came against Jerusalem, they laid siege against it, and they conquered it. The prophets were vindicated. Daniel, being of the royal household, is taken captive to Babylon, just as Jeremiah and Ezekiel had said would happen.