Simple, because Babylonish domination over Judah only
lasted until the Jews were released from servitude to Babylon under the new
King of Babylon, King Cyrus in 537 BCE
If the Babylon’s domination
over Judah ended in 537 when did it begin?
Did it begin in Jehoiakim’s
time?
Did it begin in Jehoiachin’s
time?
Did it begin in Zedekiah’s time?
[2 Kings 24:1 In Je·hoiʹa·kim’s days King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar+ of Babylon came against him, and
Je·hoiʹa·kim became his servant for three years. However, he turned against him
and rebelled. 2 Then Jehovah began to send against him
marauder bands of Chal·deʹans,+ Syrians, Moʹab·ites, and Amʹmon·ites. He
kept sending them against Judah to destroy it, according to Jehovah’s word+ that he had spoken through his servants
the prophets…
King
Je·hoiʹa·chin of Judah went out to the king of Babylon,+ along with his mother, his servants, his
princes, and his court officials;+ and the king of Babylon took him captive
in the eighth year of his reign.+ 13 Then he took out from there all the
treasures of the house of Jehovah and the treasures of the king’s house.*+He cut into pieces all the gold utensils that
Solʹo·mon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah.+ This happened just as Jehovah had
foretold. 14 He took into exile all Jerusalem, all
the princes,+ all the mighty warriors, and every
craftsman and metalworker*+—he took 10,000 into exile. No one was left
behind except the poorest people of the land.+ 15 Thus he took Je·hoiʹa·chin+ into exile to Babylon;+ he also led away the king’s mother, the
king’s wives, his court officials, and the foremost men of the land, taking
them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 The king of Babylon also took into exile
to Babylon all the warriors, 7,000, as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metalworkers,* all of them mighty men and trained for
war….
17 The king of Babylon made Mat·ta·niʹah,
Je·hoiʹa·chin’s uncle,+ king in his place and changed his name to
Zed·e·kiʹah.+ 18 Zed·e·kiʹah was 21 years old when he
became king, and he reigned for 11 years in Jerusalem.]
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Also the following from the WTS makes clear that
the 70 years of the Babylonia’s greatest domination ended in 539 when it fell.
[Isaiah’s Prophesy 1 p.
253-254 par. 21-23 - Evidently, the 70 years represents the period of
Babylonia’s greatest domination— …But at the end of 70 years, that
domination will crumble.]
[w65
1/1 p. 30 - Thus the stage was set. For, after Nebuchadnezzar,
Babylon had a brief and tempestuous history of rulership that extended only as
far as the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, falling to Medo-Persia in
539 B.C.E. So, although Babylon felt highly exalted over the downfall of
Judah, with much rejoicing, yet this rejoicing turned out to be very
short-lived, for the One who sets the times and seasons and who “is doing
according to his own will among the army of the heavens and the inhabitants of
the earth” had decreed a cutting off of Babylon’s domination.—Dan. 4:35.]
