wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. THE SAMARITANS. 2 Kings xvii, 24, 33, 34. And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment, which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel. Luke ix, 52, 53. And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jeru salem. Luke xvii, 15-18. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answer ing, said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that return ed to give glory to God, save this stranger. John iv, 9, 20-22,27...For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Our fathers worshipped in it for thy righteousness; for thou the work of their hands, saith tho 2 Kings xvii, 13, 14, 19, 21. Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 2 Kings xxiii, 26. Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. 2 Chron. Xxxvi, 14. Moreover, all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much, after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house Ps. lxxviii, 59, 60. When God Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men. Isa, ili, S. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judal is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. Jer. ii, 7. And I brought you Ezek. v, 6-8. And she hath into changed my judgments wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop, Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, Behold, I, even 1, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. Ezek. xi, 12. And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. Ezek. xxxvi, 19. And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way, and according to their doings, I judged them. Amos ii, 4. Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked. Micah i, 5, 6. For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? Thereare they not Jerusalem? this mountain; and ye say, that in into a plentiful country, to eat the fore I will make Samaria as an Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto fruit thereof, and the goodness heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour her, Woman, believe me, the hour defiled my land, and made mine down the stones thereof into the cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seckest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? VI-WICKEDNESS OF THE Deut. ix, 6. Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess heritage an abomination. Jer. v, 11. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. Jer. xxxii, 23, 30. And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law: they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do; therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them. For the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. Judges fil, 12-14. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. And he gathered unto him the children of and smote Israel, and possesssed Ammon and Amalek, and went the city of palm-trees. So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. Judges vi, 1. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. Judges x, 8. And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead. Judges xiii, 1. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delived them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. 1 Sam. xii, 9. And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them. 2 Kings x, 32. In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel. 2 Kings xv, 37. (In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.) 2 Kings xvii, 20. And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. Ps. cvi, 40-42. Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them and they were brought into subjection under their hand. Isa. xlii, 22, 23. But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them shared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none Baith, Restore. Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken, and hear for the time to come. Jer. ii, 14-16. Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he spoiled? The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burnt without inhabitant. the children of Noph and TahaAlso panes have broken the crown of thy head. Jer. xix, 7. And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. Amos vi, 14. But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation. O THE CAPTIVITY. come, that all that is in thine 2 Kings xx, 17. Behold, the days house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD, thus saith the LORD God of Israel, 2 Kings xxi, 12, 13. Therefore Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon come, that all that is in thine kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. figs, which cannot be eaten, they Jer. xxiv, 8-10. And as the evil are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, SO will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that dwell in the land of Egypt; that remain in this land, and them And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and shall drive them. And I will send a curse, in all places whither I pestilence, among them, till they the sword, the famine, and the be consumed from off the land. their fathers. that I gave unto them and to them Because ye have not heard my Jer. xxv, 8, 9, 11. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, take all the families of the north, words, Behold, I will send and servant, and rezzar the king of Babylon, my saith the LORD, and Nebuchadagainst this land, and against will bring the inhabitants thereof,and against all these nations round about, and make them an astonishment, and will utterly destroy them, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. south shall be shut up, and none tive. come to pass, if they say unto Jer. xv, 2, 4, 5, 14. And it shall thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the will cause them to be removed captivity, to the captivity. And I into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. For Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan who shall have pity upon thee, O thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? And I will thyself, shalt discontinue from 823 the hand of the Chaldeans, but Jer. xxxii, 4. And Zedekiah king shall surely be delivered into the of Judah shall not escape out of hand of the king of Babylon, and mouth, and his eyes shall behold shall speak with him mouth to his eyes. Jer. xxxiv, 1-3. The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD. (when Nebuchadnezzar king all the kingdoms of the earth of of Babylon, and all his army, and his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,) sayGod of Israel, Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell ing, Thus saith the LORD, the him, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of burn it with fire. And thou shalt the king of Babylon, and he shall into his hand; and thine eyes shall surely be taken, and delivered notescape out of his hand,but shalt behold the eyes of the king of Jer. xxxviii, 1-3. Then Shepha- Jer. xliv, 27. Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine, until there be an end of them. Ezek. v, 14. Moreover, I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. Ezek. vi, 7. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Ezek. xi, 15. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the na tions, and disperse them in the countries. Ezek. xxii, 15, 16. And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. Hosea v, 9. Ephraim shall be VII. Jer. xxxix, 9. Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained. (that is the ninth year of Hoshea, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) CAPTIVITY OF JUDAII. 2 Kings xxiv, 14-16. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorer sort of the people of the land. And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land; those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craitsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. 2 Kings xxv, 6, 7, 11, 19-21. So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblahi; and they gave judgment upon him. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah belore his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude,did Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carry away. And out of the city he took an officer, that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: And Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Kiblah: And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah, in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land. Jer. xxix, 2, 3. (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem,) By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Jer. lii, 15, 24, 25, 28-30. Then Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door. He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. This is the people whom Nebuchadiezzar carried away captive: In the seventh year three thousand Jews, and three and twenty: In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. CONDITION DURING THE Lev. xxvi, 38. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. Esther ii, 5, 6. Now, in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. Ps. lxxviii, 61, 62. And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. He gave his people over also unfo the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. Ps. cxxxvii, 1-4. By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down, we wept when we remembered sword. According to their uncleanness, and according to their transgressions, have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willow in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall weed up: now shall they be among Hosea viii, 8. Israel is swallowsing the LORD's song in a strange the Gentiles as a vessel wherein land? is no pleasure. Isa. Ixiii, 18. The people of thy holiness liave possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. Isa. Ixiv, 10. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Lam. i, 1, 3-5. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest; all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are afilicted, and she is in bitterness. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. Lam. ii, 1. How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! Lam. iv, 12. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. Ezek. xi, 15, 16. Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD; unto us is this land given in possession. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Gon, Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Ezek. xxxix, 23, 24. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies; so fell they all by the Zech. vii, 14. But I scattered the nations whom they knew not: them with a whirlwind among all them, that no man passed through thus the land was desolate after nor returned; for they laid the pleasant land desolate." THE PRESERVED REMNANT. space, grace hath been shewed Ezra ix, 8. And now, for a little from the LORD our God, to leave give us a nail in his holy place, us a remuant to escape, and to that cur God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our boudage. remnant that is escaped of the Isa. xxxvii, 31, 82. And the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. shall go forth a remnant, and they LORD said, The whole land shall those days, saith the LORD, I will thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: captains of the forces which were me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans which will shall be well with you. As for come unto us: but ye, gather ye dwell in your cities that ye have and put them in your vessels, and wine, and summer-fruits, and oil, taken. Likewise, when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in countries, heard that the king of Edom, and that were in all the them Gedaliah the son of Abikam, Judah, and that he had set over the son of Shaphan; Even all the Babylon had left a remnant of came to the land of Judah, to Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and gathered wine and summer-fruits Gedaliah, unto very much. Mizpah, and ber that escape the sword shall Jer. xliv, 28. Yet a small numreturn out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judab; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone there, shall know whose words into the land of Egypt to sojourn shall stand, mine, or theirs. for I am with thee: for I will that shall escape the sword among from the famine, and from the therein shall be left a remnant sinful kingdom, and I will destroy of the Lord GOD are upon the Amos ix, 8, 9. Behold, the eyes it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. For, lo, I will com mand, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Zech. xiil, 8, 9. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God. VIII. RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY. PREDICTED. Isa. xiv, 2. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. Isa. xliv, 26, 27. That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built; and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: That saith to the deep, Be dry; and I will dry up thy rivers. Jer. xii, 14, 15. Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out, I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. Jer. xvi, 14 15. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. Jer. xxiv, 5. Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away cap tive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. Jer. xxix, 14. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again unto the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. Jer. xxx, 3, 10. For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. Jer. xxxii,36,37. And now therofore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. Behold, I will gather them out of all countries. Jer. xxxili, 7. And I will cause the captivity of Judah, and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. Jer. xlvi, 27. But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Jer.133,34.Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong; The LORD of hosts is his name. Ezek. xx, 38..... I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Zeph. iii, 19. Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. ACCOMPLISHED UNDER CYRUS. Ezra i, 1-6. Now, in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, (that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled,) the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hathi charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah: Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusa lem, which is in Judali, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel (he is the God) which is in Jerusalem. And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the free-will-offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem. Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. And all they that were about them strengthened with gold, with goods, and with their hands with vessels of silver, besides all that was willingly ofbeasts, and with precious things, fered. Ezra 11, 70. So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. Ezra ii, 1. And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. Ezra vil, 6, 7, 13. This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a which the LORD God of Israel had ready scribe in the law of Moses, given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him. And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realin, which are minded of their own free-will to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. Ezra ix, 9. For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the rouse of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. REBUILDING OF See under CANAAN. |