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'He abolished festival and Sabbath'

Lamentations mourns that God ended festival and Sabbath in Zion and spurned king and priest.

The old Sabbath died with the temple.

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For the Sabbath to survive conquest, it had to be reinvented as a weekly day independent of the land and temple.

Bible reference: Lamentations 2:6

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 163

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