. The training of the Chosen people. ts of sin do not sustain thisrelation. The sin of Israel was not the cause of the 126 Old Testament History military genius and administrative capacity of Tiglath-pileser, which pushed the borders of Assyria clearto the coasts of the Mediterranean, thus creating theawful menace to Israel. There is no link in the realmof human causation between the sin of Israel and theability and policy of Tiglath-pileser, but there is sucha link in the mind of God. And, as Amos and Isaiahsaw so clearly, He can use Assyria or Egypt to visitupon Israel and Judah the penaltie
. The training of the Chosen people. ts of sin do not sustain thisrelation. The sin of Israel was not the cause of the 126 Old Testament History military genius and administrative capacity of Tiglath-pileser, which pushed the borders of Assyria clearto the coasts of the Mediterranean, thus creating theawful menace to Israel. There is no link in the realmof human causation between the sin of Israel and theability and policy of Tiglath-pileser, but there is sucha link in the mind of God. And, as Amos and Isaiahsaw so clearly, He can use Assyria or Egypt to visitupon Israel and Judah the penalties for their apostasyfrom Him. The resources of Jehovah to reward or topunish, to protect and deliver, or to overturn and de-stroy, are not measured by the natural sequences ofevents. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God: Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; . . Jehovah loveth the righteous; . . But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. Ps. 146 Sargon, the Captor of Samaria, andhis Vizier. Chapter 35. The Hand of Jehovah 127 CHAPTER XXXV. THE HAND OF Ki. chs. 18-20. Isaiah believed that Jerusalem was inviolable. Nomatter how dark the prospect, even though Samariafell before the advance of Assyria, he never onceswerved from the conviction that Jerusalem was safebecause she was the city of the Holy One of Israel Ifthe forty-eighth Psalm, commemorates the deliveranceof Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, we hear inits exultant notes the song that was in the heart ofIsaiah before prophecy had become history: God hath made himself known in her palaces for a , lo, the kings assembled themselves,They passed by saw it, then were they amazed;They were dismayed, they hasted took hold of them there,Pain, as of a woman in travail. . .As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God:God will establish it for ever
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