The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-17
Note and Comm emit

Tme-Jerusalem destroyed in the sum-
mer of B. @. $50, thirty-six years after the
last lesson.
Place-Jerusalem Riblah, seventy-fve
miles north of Damascus; Babylon.
Rulers-Zedekiah, twenth-tirst and last
king of judah, son of Josiah; Nebuchad-
nezzar, king of Babylon. nineteenth year.
Prophets Jeremiah, in Jerusalem 1927
5S2;) Ezekiel, in Babylonia (598-573; J
Daniel, in Babylon (6O6-5S6;) Obadiah
(5S5.l
Parallel Accounts-Jer. lii, 4-16; II
Chron, xxxvi. 11-21; Jer. xxx, Is.
Biblical Literature of the Period-Jer.,
chaps. xxi-xxiii, xxviii-xxxiii, xxxviii,
xxx Ps. "a and 70 give pictures of the
siege. Obadiah belongs to the early part
OF the captivity.
Jeremiah's book of Lamentations"
consists OF five poems or dirges, written
about this captivity. Four of them are
alphabetical poems, the twenty-five stan
zas commencing with the letters OF the
Hebrew alphabet. They are supposed to
have been written in the Grotto Of Jere-
miah, on the west side of Jerusalem.
Approaches to the Final Doom-The
first captivity when the seventy years
captivity referred to in Jer. xxx, 10 begins)
Daniel was among these captives. The
second captivity took place six years later,
B. G. sos, by Nebuchadnezzar; 10000 peo-
pie and great treasures were carried to
Babylon (II Kings xiv, l0-l6.) Ezekiel was
among these captives (Ezek. /, l, p Ten
years later began the third captivity,
which is the subject of today's lesson.
Helps Over Hard Places-(D Ninth
year of his: Zedekiah's reign. Tenth
month: Thebet, which includes from mid
die Of December to middle OF January.
Built forts: high wooden towers from
which to fling darts, fire-brands, or to
thrust battering-rams. q, 81 Eleventh
year, fourth month: July B. G. $50. A
year and half after the siege began. Here
belong the 3,023 captives OF Jer. Iii, IS
where eth" should be "17th.") (4) BY
way OF the gate: at the south of the city.
The besiegers entered on the north. To
ward the plain: of Jericho. (6) Riblah :
seyenty-five miles north OF Damascus.
Here Nebuchadnezzar was overseeing two
sieges, one at Jerusalem and one at Tyre.
III Remnant of the multitude those
outside of the city. (12.) The poor OF the
land: these had now some compensation
for their poverty. They had been OPP
pressed by the rich and great, as Jere-
miah tells us and now their oppressors
are ruined captives, and the poor have
full opportunity in the country. Among
those who remained was the prophet
Jeremiah.
Remarkable Prophecies Fulflled-God
spoke by the tongue of Ezekiel one OF the
most mysterious and most curious pre-
dictions in the entire bible. He declared
that King Zedekiah should be led into
Babylon a captive, should there i've and
there die, and yet he should never see the
city. So singular is this record that we
must read the verses just as he wrote
them out (Ezek. xii, 1913. Now put
with this parallel passage. Jeremiah
was thrown into prison by his monarch.
While there under bonds, he in like man.
ner predicted the downfall OF Jerusalem
and he said that Zedekiah should speak
with Nebuchadnezzar mouth to mouth,
and see his eyes. Find the exact words
(Jer. xxi, 3-5).