Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 10, 2001
                    
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I wonder how we would feel if we were standing in the shoes of those exiles, those ancient Jews?  What do you think God would have told us to do, if we had been His people taken by force to live in a pagan society?  
                
                    
                        MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER
RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK
(Revised: 2015)
ILL. In 597 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian army attacked Jerusalem.  The invaders took the King prisoner, plundered the temple, & carried off 10,000 captives to spend the rest of their lives in a foreign land along
                        
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