. The training of the Chosen people. , have substantially identical judg-ments of character; Nebuchadnezzar seems to havethought that if he gave the king of Judah rope enoughhe would hang himself. He was probably right. Butwhen the delay of the catastrophe became troublesomehe took the field himself. Before the Chaldean armyinvested Jerusalem, however, the king of Judah died,and the results of wickedness and folly fell upon thelad of eighteen, Jehoiachin, who reigned only threemonths. In five verses (2 Ki. 24: 12-16) the writer of thebook of Kings describes the surrender of the city, andthe be
. The training of the Chosen people. , have substantially identical judg-ments of character; Nebuchadnezzar seems to havethought that if he gave the king of Judah rope enoughhe would hang himself. He was probably right. Butwhen the delay of the catastrophe became troublesomehe took the field himself. Before the Chaldean armyinvested Jerusalem, however, the king of Judah died,and the results of wickedness and folly fell upon thelad of eighteen, Jehoiachin, who reigned only threemonths. In five verses (2 Ki. 24: 12-16) the writer of thebook of Kings describes the surrender of the city, andthe beginning of the captivity in Babylon. We areaware as we read it that a tremendous episode in hu-man history is closing in a way that belies its earlypromise. We seem to see the precious vessels tornfrom the temple, the royal household and the princesleading a forlorn procession of captives to the campof Nebuchadnezzar; we hear the groans of strongmen, and the cries and sobs of women. The beautyof Israel is slain upon her high From Glimpses of Bible So-called Tombs of the Kings atJerusalem. Chapter 38. The Fulfilment of Doom 141 CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE FULFILMENT OF Ki. 24 : 18—25 : 21; Jer. chs. 37, 38. Between the capture and the final destruction ofJerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar there is a respite ofeleven years. It was no part of the colonial policyof Assyria or Babylon to do any more injury to a con-quered region than was necessary to guard against fu-ture insurrection. Usually a considerable number ofthe prominent men and their families were deported toa distant settlement, and those who remained wereruled by a trustworthy governor of their own race. Thiswas the procedure of Nebuchadnezzar upon the captureof Jerusalem in 597 b. c. (2 Ki. 24 : 14-16). The new governor of Jerusalem was Zedekiah (Mat-taniah), the youngest son of Josiah and the full brotherof Jehoahaz, who had been deposed by Necoh. Thus Jerusalem was given another and last oppor-tunity to
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