“When you finish
Reading this scroll,
Tie a stone to it.
Throw it into
The middle
Of the Euphrates River.
Say.
‘Thus shall Babylon sink.
It will rise no more,
because of the disasters
That I am bringing on her.’”
When Seraiah had finished reading the scroll, he was to tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River. This symbolic act was to show that just as the words in this scroll sank with the stone, so would Babylon sink also. It would never rise again, because of all the disasters that Yahweh was going to bring to Babylon. Thus we have another example of biblical writings and how they were used.
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