Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-22
. CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL.
LESSON VllI, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATloNAL SERIES, MAY "a.

Chron. xziv, Go--ComLlcntary by the
Rev. ID. NJ. stearps.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per-
mission OF II. Hoffman, publisher, Philadel.
phia.
O. "ln the ninth year Of Hoshen. the king
OF Assyria took 5amaria, and carried Israel
away into Assyria.n
After more than $50 years of continued
rebellion against God, during which time
nineteen kings reigncI over them, not one
~ whom did right ia the sight Of the Lord,
Shalmanezer, king of Assyria, besipged
Samaria, the capital Of Israel Il Kings xvi,
20 in the sixth year Of Hoshea, and after
three years took it and carried Israel into
captivity Tvs. 10. That God would do
this If they refused to obey Elm He had
plainly foretold by His servant Moses QIev
XVI, 1913; Deut xviii, 63, 90, and by the
prophets He had given them many "A warn
ing, so that they were without excuse.
For so it was, that the children of
Israel had sinned against the Lord their
God, which had brought them up out of
the land of Egypt, etc"
God through Moses, and through his ser
wants Hosen, Amos and jeremiah, makes
frequent reference to His bringing them out
OF Egypt as n reason why they should obey
:. And walked in the statutes Of the
heather, whom the Lord cast out from be-
@ore the children OF Israeli,
8. "And the children OF Israel did secretly
those things that were not right against
the Lord their God"
Not only publicly but secretly were they
mingled among the heather and learned
their works. Ops. cyi, 35l. In the dark they
did wickedly, saying, Tho Lord seeth us
not: the Lore hath forsakcn the earth"
10. "And they set them up images and
groves in every high hill and under every
green tree"
Even Judah did this also in the days of
the son of Solomon q Kings xiv, g. 23),
and then followed the plundering of the
temple by the king Of Egypt, only thirty
four years after its dedication q Kings vi,
3S; xiv, %, 2G). When we consider the
plain command; Of God not only not to
set up these places, but to destroy all such
things and places which the heather had
At up (Deut. xvi, 81, ~; xii, p, we are apt
NJ ask, GLOW could they thus fly in the
face Of God" But we had better ask our
own hearts,
H. "And there they burnt incense in all
the high places, as did the heather whom
the Lord carried away before them; and
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Jesus Himself uttered the same words
shortly before they eraeilied Him.
IL "And they rejected his statutes. and
his covenant. and they followed vanity and
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