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    RABMAG

    (Rabʹmag).

    The title of a major official of the Babylonian Empire at the time that Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 B.C.E. The title has been identified on excavated inscriptions. Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag was one of the men in the special tribunal of high Babylonian princes who sat in judgment in Jerusalem’s Middle Gate after the city fell to Nebuchadnezzar and who is mentioned in connection with Jeremiah’s being released to go to Gedaliah.​—Jer 39:3, 13, 14.