The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-08-17
Jehoiakirn Burns
the Word Of God
suaday School Lesson for Ass. 20. 1895
specially Prepared iov This Pspsr.

LESSON TEXT. Jeremiah 3s .21-3s Mem
ory Verses 22-A
GOLDEN TExT.-"Amead your way,
and your doings, and obey the voice OF tn,
Lord your Cod."-Jer 1913
TiME.-The fourth year Of Jehoialim',
reign, b. &. sos
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES. Method
OF Jeremiah's preaching: Jer. 13:1-H; 17:1
"a; IS1-R; 1s:1-l6. etc. Character Of IA,
ruch: Jer. 81: $50; 45:1-5. Fulfillment OF Jere
miah's prophecy. 2Kings "a, rs. New Testa
ment references to jeremiah: Matt. 2:1s
1928; u :13; 23:3s: Mark 1876; Rom. s:2i Cor
lo:17; Heb. s:S-12; 1915, H. Compare will
Jer. a15: 2l7; 7:11: 22:5; e:s; 1876; 9:A
31:5l-a; 3l:S3, "a.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
V. Il. "So:" Because King Jehoia
kim was interested, or at leas
aroused, by what some Of his coun
seIors had just told him. They hat
found him In the inner court of th
palace, and had reported how Barucf
had just read In public the words Of
the prophet jeremiah. Sent
to fetch the roll:" The roll of parch
ment on which the prophecy was writ
ten had been left in the chamber o
Elishama the scribe, where the STATE
documents were kept. The princes
evidently thought that verbal report
Of its contents would satisfy the king
but he decided that he would hear II
for himself.
v. %. "Winterhouse: The lower
apartment of the palace. This wa.
rooted and sheltered, and was com
monty used in cold weather, while tn,
upper apartments. being more open
were used In summer. "On the hearth. >
Better in Rev. Yer, "in the brazier:" 8
fre-pan holding burning charcoal ts
warm the room. Modern stoves witt
hearths were unknown at that date.
v. %. Leaves" A manuscript was
divided into columns, here spoken Of
as leaves. HE cut It with the pen
knife" The king took the roll from
Jehudi. and also took the knife which
this scribe carried for sharpening his
reed pens. He cut the roll into bits
throwing the pieces deliberately into
the fire until the whole was consumed
v. "a. yet they were not afraid:
jeremiah, who writes these words
cannot refrain from expressing his as
tonisliment at the hardness Of thell
hearts. Nor rent their garments
AS King Josiah had done (see Lessor
y. Nor any Of his servants" Tn,
kings personal attendants, like him
self. were unmoved BY what the,
heard.
v. 26. "Elnathan. Delaiah and Ge
mariah:" Princes who had reporte'
the reading to the king.
v. 26. ITO take Baruch an,
jeremiah" To arrest and imprisol
them. This is what the princes ha,
foressen would happen II the king
heart was not touched by the warning
They had oOunseled Baruch and Jere
miah to hide. "The Lord hid them:
Perhaps He used human friends to d
this. jeremiah Is not heard of for Sc,
eral years after this date. 1t is CON
monty supposed that 1t was at thi
time he was guided to the Euphrate.
more than 200 miles distant, to hid
the linen girdle (Jer. 13).
v. 27. THE word of the Lord cam
to jeremiah" Though the prophe
was, in a sense, exiled from home an
friends, the Lord was still with him.
v. 2S. Write the former words:
The book, Of which no copy existed
and which no human memory cOul
reproduce. was preserved by Gods il
spring the prophet to rewrite 1t.
v. 20. Say to Jehoiakim:" Th
prophet was not directed to come int
the presence of the king who sougf
his life. but merely to add 30 hi
prophecy these words concernin
him. "Come and Destroy" Babylon
king had once visited Jerusalem as II
conqueror and he will come again q
its destroyer.
v. 80. "None to sit upon the thror
|, Of David" On the death Of Jehoi
. kim, his son Jshoiachn was nomin'
king Of Judah for three months. the
|. was deposed by Nebuchadnezzar ar
carried to spend the remainder Of b
,. life In Babylon. Body cast out;
|, (See Jer. 22:19.) We have no recol
!. Of the fulhllment OF this prophec
but It seems that Jehoiakim was slal
: either by his subjects, or by Bah
. lonians.
v. 81. "Will punish him." TT
I literal reading. II will visit upc
him." gives . better idea Of God
|, mode of dealing with His sinful CHI