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CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL.
LESSON WI, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATloNAL SERIES, MAY "a.
Text of the Lesson. IL Kings xvii, G-1S.
Commit Verses, 19-1S-Cioiden Text, II
Chron. xiv, 2o-Commcntary by the
Rev. ID. NJ. Stearns.


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6. "1n the ninth year of 1Ioshea the king
OF Assyria took Sarnnria, and carried Israel
away into Assyria."
After more than 80 years of continued
rebellion against God, during which time
nineteen kings reigned over them not one
Of whom did right in the sight of the Lord,
Shalmauczer, king Of Assyria, besieged
Samnria, the capital Of Israel Il Kings xvi,
"a i'll the sixth year Of Hoshea and after
three years took it and carried Israe into
captivity Tvs. 10. That God would do
this If they refused to obey Him He had
plainly foretold by His servant Moses n.ev.
XVI, 1913; Deut xviii, G3, Cd, and Icy me
prophets He had given them many a warn
ing, 50 that they We're without excuse.
{. "For so it was, that the children Of
Israel had sinned against the Lord their
God, which had brought them up oGt Of
the land Of Egypt, etc"
God through Moses, and through his ser
wants IIosen, Amos and Jeremiah, makes
frequent reference 10 His bringing them out
of Egypt rs a reason why they should obey
$. And walked in the Statutes OF tine
heather, whom the Lord cast out from ~
fore the children of Israel. "
.. And the children of Israel did secretly
those things that were not right against
the Lord their God. ~
Not only publicly but secretly were rhcy
''minGlud among the heather and learned
their works" lps. cvi, Boz. III the dark hey
did wickcdly, saying. THE Lord secth rs
not; the lord hath iorsaiicn the cur;h."
10. And they sci them M images and
groves in every high Hill and under every
green tree"
Even Judah did this also in the UHye OF
the son e solomon Il kiu"S xiv, ~, 30,
and then followed the plunderinS Of tne
temple by the King OF Egypt, only thirty
four years att.r it, dedication Il N.u.-= vi,
IS, SiY, 70, ~. When We consider the
plain commands Of God not only Dot to
set up these place., hut 70 destroy all such
thing, anu places which the heather had
set mp Dcut. XVI. y, ~. Xii p, We nrc npt
to ask, "ltow could they thus tly in the
face Of CIodt' But we had better ask our
own hearts.
II. And there they burnt incense in all
the hiGn places, "a, did the heathen whom
the Lord carried away before them; and
wrought wicked Things 10 provoke the Lord
10 anger"
II. For they served idols, whereof the
Lord had said unto them, e shall not do
this thing
Besides the second commandment re
corded in tx. Xxx, and Deut. V, listen 70
Lev. XVI, /, "le shall make you no idols
nor graveu image, to bow down
unto it, for | am the Lord your God
Jehovah their creator and covenant keep
ing God desired to be their portion. He
wanted them all for Himself, and He would
be wholly for them He would be their
shield and their exceeding great reward, as
He said to Abram
10. yet the Lord testified against Israel,
aud against Judah, by all the prophets,
and all the seers, saying, Turn ye from
your evil ways"
See ..o,nc of His nlcadin9 with thorn in
lisa IL r7.Iv :. Ter iii 70. WV =. EzoL
iel 80. - ~, ~ ..1, 49, -
NNAHi, u, nos XIV |, nus sun" 'He 4-oru
God, the Holy one OF Israel, In returning
and rest shall ye he saved; IN quietness and
in confidence shall be your strength; and ye
would nOtr lisa. Xxx. 80
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neck OF their fathers, that dld not nele'e
III the Lord their Tod.
On the last verse we quoted from Isaiah
the snd words, And We would not" Il
was the Same all through their history. Till
| - t1i,,,aaIf ,,,tor,d IA sa,r,, ,,.ord.
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