Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-20
CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH.
LESSON XII, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATIONAL SERIES, JUNE Fl.

y came, he and all his host, against Jeru
salem, and pitched against it,"
As we saw in the last lesson .Josiahi
turning TO God and great revival reached
S1t fey caa2paratiyeig, while the nation
as whole continued in sin.
According to the Word Of the Lord"
2, And the city was besieged unto tn,
eleventh year of Zcdekiah"
Jeremiah had at this time been prophet
forty years, for ho began in the thirteenth
year OF Josiah, after which Josiah contin
ued eighteen years. and the eleventh Of
Iedekiah was twenty-five years later DER
~; ii Kings xxi, |; xiii, 81, 80; xiv, 3
lS). The thirty-1lve years which elapsed
between Josiah's great passover in the
eighteenth year Of his reign Oh Chron
xXXv, I'D and tho destruction of the city
Is suggestive and perhaps typical of about
the same period which elapsed between
the greatest Of all passovers, when Christ
our passover was sacrificed for us q Cor.
Y, y and the last destruction of Jerusalem
by Titus
g. "The famine prevailed in the city, and
there was no bread for the people of the
land"
a. "And the city was broken up, and all
the men of war fled by night; and the king
went the way toward the plain"
And yet this was the city which God had
chosen to put His name there-the city OF
the Great King, beautiful for situation the
joy of the whole earth
8. "And the army of the Chaldees pur-
sued after the king and overlook him in
the plains of Jericho, andall his army were
scattered from him"
This also was made known TO the caDtives
at Babylon by the prophet Ezekiel Geek.
xii, 49, (. c.) Contrast the safety of IIcze-
kiah when besiegcd by the great army of
b Sennacherib, and the wonderful doliverance
God wrought for him In answer to the
prayer OF himself and Isaiih I'll Chrun.
xxi, 1922; Isa. XxXvii 3G). Sec also the
peace and safety of Eli jahw besieged by
the Syrians Oh Kings vi, 10. ~, and con
slider what God did for Abiiah and Asa be
cause they relied on him I'll Chron. xiii, 1S;
xiv, IL, l2).
0. $50 they took the king and brought
him up to the king Of Babylon to Riblah;
and they gave Judgment upon him"
AT the same place, just twenty-five years
before the king Of Egypt had put bands
npops his brother Johoahaz and took him
to Egypt, whore he died Oh Kings xXiiD.
z "And they slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes, and put out the eyes of
Zedekiah, and bound him with letters of
brass, and carried him to Babylon"
Jeremiah had said, Chime eyes shall be
hold the eyes of the king of Babylon. and
:, he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth,
anu S n ail"l' Z" 70 i'',yioh Yer AANlV,
% ine S'inu SplriC uau shiu CnrouBh
hHeklel, VIII DrlnS MN 10 b1Dyioh' TO
INC anu Oh inc Chalicths, yet snail ne not
see ~ Vhotign he shail dlo thefe, Ihzek'
XII, 10y see now CneSe somewhat oillcu!t'
anu III measure seemingly cohCraulc,
Cury' propilocles "erel ''e''lly luiiiiiou' ana
~ ih''ue 'eIietoly Iltlh ~ INC iu'illitilenI,
ZIG 81" Iho kils u h"pyloll' they lookeu
apoh each other una spoke TO e'lch other'
aie alSo Weho 10 I''pyio ouG ne never sa"
DapSioL, LOT hltcr seeing Iile King Oh Dapy
ION at hlDial' anu al.er Deihg compelled 10
WITNESS Uhe aeauh oi ms sons nus eyes were
Pun oup' iioW ivtrl"ty N1u bnp conSo
@nehees Oh nnocileiI o,C what Is al present
physical suffering WI II coniParet Win
inc endless torment Oh l'eV' XIV V-llf
Q, 'Nebuzar adah' captain OF inc guard
servant OF the KING OIL BaDylon'
Inc llCeral meaning OF inc hebrew phrase
mere TRANSLATED captain Oh tine Suard IS
chiel Oh inc slangh'erlneh OF execution
'ers' Nsec one margin OF Ven NNANli, oo)
y, ana nc purht tine mousse OF the LORD.
afn1 the Kings mouse, ana an Che houses Oh
gerasaleih' una every BreaO ihal mousse
Durh1 nc Win hre,
Inc people coula no" Vruly say ~ "oa'
inc heatheh are como INTO Ihlhe lnherlt'
ahce, tny npy Uellple nave they olenie'i' Ihey
have land Jerusalem on heaps IS lXXlx'
H. our Dolg ana our pctutllul mousse,
where our fHheis praised lhee' Is burned
up Win llre' ana an our pheasant IhlhgS
are lalu waste LISA INV, w. rms mag
iniiicent building, coshGg hUhuredS oil mil
aons OF dollars, ana Whlch Stoou less IMAM
1thtrty-lour years III us original splchdor
Mugs MY, - 90 ~ now coLil'lcIGly 'Ie-
stroyed and al the city burned with IRE;
and sin qua II an
~ Anu a. Wv "i'ly VI Wv, 40. ''''l., iS1
thnt We're WIN tho captain Oh inc Ruhrd,
brake down tie walls OF Jerusalem round
about"
And thus thCv continued until the re-
tnrn of Nehemiah. manv ycars after the
-, - ~ sn ooo ,,rdn,, 2orrLbobnl lNoI,
y, wv -
l. o. anu "'u," Vl'o Tl'i'.15 ~. anu
Ahhtrcd was inc wall rcDullt NNeh' ~, VIZ
IL. Nov the rest of the people that were
left in the city did Ncbular adam, the cap
tain of the guard, carry away.r
Some ,vcro slain Tvs 1SzaN Mt tbroo DIFF.
,.'4 t., 4 cnn ,,or, ,,,;,1 o.,,ti,,o Tor
weren't Ili'lcs fiooo Ne'o e'' NV " yer,
w. SS-ool' Nh'le So'ic were .elO 'u tiie i""o'
some Wero carried oaptlNe lor thelf Eoou,
that lie might bring them again, and build
them and plant them in their own land,
and Give them a heart To know Him: while
|. 'tLors ,ho war. ,lisnbodinrt wore talnn Ia
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