Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-03
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph
The ProVidences of God.

We pass from the miraculous entrance
of the people of Israel into the promised
land, leaving the student Of history to
ponder over the various incidents ot
| Providence, which attended the nation
period of some nine hundred years,
from Joshua, past the Judges, Samuel,
| Saul, David, Solomon, with all of their
wisdom and prosperity, until the people
Of Israel, in consequence Of their wick.
edness, are taken captives to Babylon
bv the armies of Nebuchadnezzar.
This Ngbucha dnezzar, king of Baby
lon, appears yisibly governed by a
Providence to which he himself is an
entire stranger, although it presldes
over all his deliberations, and deter
mines all his actions.
Being come, at the head of his army,
to two high ways, the one of which led
to Jerusalem, and the other to Rabbah,
the chief city of the Ammonites, the
king, not knowing which would be best
for him to strike into, debates with
himself for sometime, and, at last, casts
lots. God makes the lot fall on Jeru-
salem, to fulfill the menaces he had
pronounced against that city; (Ezek
iel, 2lst chapter, goth to 22d verses
viz: to destroy it, to burn the temple
and lead its Inhabitants into captivity
One would imagine, at first sight,
that this king had been prompted to be-
seige Tyre from political view, viz:
that he might not leave behind him so
powerful and we'll fortified city; new
ertheless, a superior will had decreed
the seige of Tyre, Goth, 9th, 2sth
chapters of Ezekiel)
God designed, on one side, to hum
bic the pride of Ithobal, its king, who,
fancying himself wiser than Daniel,
whose fame was spread over the whole
east; and ascribing to his rare and un-
common prudence, the extent of his do
minions, and the greatness Of his riches,
persuaded himself that he was God,
ana satin the seatof God. ezekiel, 2Sth
chapter.)
On the other side, he also designed
to chastise the luxury, the voluptuous
ness, and the pride of those naughty
merchants, who thought themselves
kings Of the sea, and sovereigns over
crowned heads; and especially that in
human JOY of the Tyrians, who looked
upon the fall of Jerusalem (the rival Of
Tyre) as their own aggrandizement.-
These were the m olives which prompted
God himself to lead Nebuchadnezzar
to Tyre, and to make him execute,
though unknowingly, his commands.
To recompense this monarch, whose
army the Almighty had caused to SERGE
great serOice against Tyre, (these are
Gods own words,) and to compensate
the Babylonish troops for a thirteen
years seige, ,oiH give, saith the Lord
God, the land Of Egypt unto Nebuchad-
nezzar, king Of Babylon, end he shall
take her multitude, a1sd tGke her spoil,
and take her prey, and 1t skaN Be the
aoages for his army. ezekiel, 10Th
chapter, 18th to Goth verse;
The same Nebuchadnezzar, eager to
imm mortalize his name. by the granduer
of his exploits, was determined to
highten the glory of his conquests, by
his splendor and magnifcence, in en-
bellishing the capital of his empire
with the pompous edifces and most
sumptuous ornaments. But at the in
slant that Eebuchadnezzar, walking in
his palace, and revolving, with secret