Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-27

UoIuen Text. righteousness eX'
altetll nation; but sin is reproach
to any people,
Josiah has the distinction of being
the most unique king of Judah In
many respects. In the first place he
was one of the most pious kings. Be-
ginning his reign when he was only
eight = Sars of age, even then, he
instituted reforms that lasted for
years. Cleaning up the temple and
putting it in repair the book of
deuteronomy was discovered and
brought to him; and when he had
read it he set about further reforms
that issued in the greatest passover
least since the days of Samuel
Another point of distinction-and
this is unusual in view of what has
just been said-he was the son of
the most wicked King Judah had
ever known, King Manasseh. And
a en1rd point of distinction is that
ne was the father of three kings,
, all of whom were wicked and all
of whom were carried into captivity.
No other king had two sons to be
acknowledge as king. But he had
three
Josiah was succeeded by his son,
: Jehoahaz, who was % years old
when his father died at 80. He was
the peoples choice. He reigned only
three months when the king of
AEgypt conquered him, carried him
into captivity and put the land un-
DER heavy tax. And here came in
the reason for second son of
Joslah's being made king; for the
egyptian king put the older son of
JOSIAH on the throne as one who was
favorable to the Egyptian party.
his name was Eliakim, but the
rharoah changed it to Jehoiakim.
he was 20 years old and reigned II
years. Then Nebuchadnezzar. the
hlnd OF Babylon, came against him
ana pound him in feters to carry
iiiIi 70 Babylon. He was slain and
Uurled with the burial OF an ass
win those Who were taken to Babv.
ION a1 TINS time, however, were mum.
oers OF the royal Observation-Disclosures
ana MS friends. He was sue ceeded
10y MS son, Jehoichin or Jeconiah
talso called Coniah). He was inst q
poy OF eight years and reigned onIv
enree months and ten DAYS. when
Neouchadnezzar had him denorted
70 Babylon. We will refer again tn
Inns deportation as it was in MANY
respects the most important of ali
oeholachin's captivity left no one
al Inc direct line to be placed on the
,Hlone or David, for he was onlv .
10y VI elSht years and had no chill.
uIen' or course. Therefore. Neh.
uucnadnezzar took his uncle tho
.4lrd son of Josiah, whose name was
Mdttanlah, and placed him on tbe
tnrone. He was favorab le to +be
odoylonlan party and therefore u,os
@acGeptable to the Babylonian king
>eouchadnezzar changed his name
10 Zedekiah. Honle
zedekiah was Fl years old whom ho
oeSan to reign, and he reipned ~
liars saIs' For eight years he was
i ,oyal subject to the BahvIonior
ring, but then the Egyptian nartv
necaIhe so strong that he was in.
nuenced by it. The princes thonob+
.,idt thelr only hope was in Eov,t
therefore, they ust throw off tho
Daoylonlan yoke. We learnod 10 ~
week now jeremiah did all he could
70 prevent this, and was imnrisoned
because he kept saying it was Cod
VIII Tor them not to do it. But Zed.
ehiah was weak and wicked kline
ana yielded to the influence of the
princes, and rebelled against Rahv,
ION. Nebuchadnezzar therefore s,r.
rounded the city of Jerusalem and
Desleged it for three years until IL
iinally fell. The city was DESTROYED
me walls We're broken down. everI,'
LING lnIlammable was burned the
temple OF Solomon was RACED to the
ground, and everything of value in
II taken to Babylon.
.Aedeklah's sons were slain before
ms eyes and then his ewes ware
burned out with red-hot irons and
ne himself was carried to BabvIof
captive, where he died A few wears
petore this, Ezekiel Chimself then =
captive in Babylon) had prophesied
oy the word of the Lord that Zed.
eklah should be brought a captive
TO Babylon, but should not see If
with his eyes. This was fulfilled
to the letter.
Inc largest part of the people who
remained after the seige and the
slaughter were carried to BABYLON.
Many OF the best had been deported
IL years before, but now only a few
remained. Among these were Jere.
miah. as we learned last week, and
the kings daughters, who in some
way escaped the swords of the in
vaders. These were soon carried to
Egypt.
Nebuchadnezzar peopled the land
with Babylonians who intermarried
Ptth the scum of the Israelites who
sre left and gave rise to the Sa.
with whom until after the
time of Christ the Jews therefore
had no dealings. While this was
true of the other cities, it was not
true of Jerusalem, for it was moth
ing but a mass of ruins and re-
manned so for 20 years.
The Last Davidic King
The most disastrous deportation
was that referred to above, when
Jeconiah was taken away. Jere-
miah had said of him by the word
Of the Lord: write We this man
childless, for none of his sons shall
sit upon the throne" All of Zede-
kiah's sons had been slain, and vet
God had promised that David's son