“Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.”
God's explicit identification of Nebuchadnezzar as His servant demonstrates that the foreign king is an agent of divine judgment. The characterization as servant shows that Babylon's role, though destructive, is authorized and limited by God's purposes. The king is brought to accomplish devastation, which is both military and judicial. The verse establishes that judgment will be executed through concrete historical means.
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