The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-25
BIBLE STUDY
Y. w. c. A.-Menninger Course
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Published Every Saturday in The Topeka State Jour

Syria to Withstand Tiglath-Pileser of
Assyria The murder of Pekah resulted in
while that sovereign lived things seemed
well with Israel. When he was succeeded
by Shalmanezer ", Hoshea Joined Egypt
and rebelled against Assyria. For three
years brave little Samaria stood. During
the siege: ShalmaneZer died and Sargon
ture OF Samaria, 10 r. c. Thousands of
people were taken to Assyria and the Ten
Tribes" disappear from history.
The main lesson of the History of Israel
is that righteousness eNalteth a nation
had called Israel from Egypt and given
them pleasant land Israel had sinned and
They had failed in fulfilling the very pur-
pose for which they had been set apart
To uplift among the nations the banner
or righteousness" Instead Of this they
decked out alien institutions and set up
raise gods They went after vain things
and became vain. Beginning with the two
calves they proceeded to lewd and orgiastic
idolatries. Ahab and Jezebel seduced them
into the worship of Baal From the As
alteration Of the hosts of heaven. From
Moab and Ammon they borrowed the
abominable rites of Molech.
In the days OF David, of Uzziah. of
JerobOam II, Judah and Israel had shown
they could achieve. Had they been strong
in faithfulness to Jehovah and the right
eousness which that faith REQUIRED. thew
would have shown invincible strength
amid the moral enervation of the sur
the Northern Kingdom that: Shecem was
the first capital: Tirzah the second; Sa-
maria built by Omri. the third. Dan was
the northern limit, Bethel, the southern.
TtrZah had a sanctuary OF 400 prophets.
Samarla one with $50. Mt. Carmel was the
place where Elijah won a victory over
Baal. the SD god; Horeb, the refuge for
Elijah; Jezreel, the queen mothers home
The principal characters were Jezebel.
fierce, stern. reckless, Hcentious; Ahab,
generous, gentle weak, yielding; Elisha
n. original hermit
Monk, the Puritan He had simplicity of
faith, sternness of spirit. fearless of action.
he was severe, lofty, bold. unflinching-
We must remember that the kings were
an bad; that Amos and Hosea were espe-
cially called to Israel: that Amos came
prophecy; that Hosea was from Israel and
the only Northerner to leave a written
prophecy.
Israel's sins seemed greater than those
OF Judah and judgment came 123 years
earlier In Israel the kings walked in the
ways OF Jeroboam? who made Israel to
SIN Not one served the Lord or wor-
shipped in His Temple, while in Judah
their piety-Asa. Jehoshaphat. UzZiah.
LOTHIAN and Hezekiah: among the others.
two. Joash and Amaziah, continued for a
considerable period, and one, Rehoboam.
for little while in the religion Of their
fathers. True Joram introduced BaaI wor-
snip into Judah, AhaZiah and Athaliah
their iniquity full Sanctuary was
closed and Idol worship set up in the
Temple But idolatry struck its roots
deep in Judah, first because of the con-
at Jerusalem; second because the idola-
Jrous Kings were always succeeded by
t s.s alsungulsheu LOT Ihelr pletyt VINO
destroyed the work OF their predecessor;
third, because the reign of the bad king
was uniformly brief compared with that
Of the good king.