. The training of the Chosen people. tle near Carchemish onthe Euphrates. The result was an overwhelming vic-tory for the arms of Babylon. They are dismayedand are turned backward; and their mighty ones arebeaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back:terror is on every side (Jer. 46:5). Many his-torians regard the battle of Carchemish as one of thedecisive battles of the world. Certainly it settledwhether the principal influence in the development ofcivilization was to be that of Babylon or that of Egypt. Jeremiah, like Nahum, twenty years before, saw thatno kingdom of Western Asia could
. The training of the Chosen people. tle near Carchemish onthe Euphrates. The result was an overwhelming vic-tory for the arms of Babylon. They are dismayedand are turned backward; and their mighty ones arebeaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back:terror is on every side (Jer. 46:5). Many his-torians regard the battle of Carchemish as one of thedecisive battles of the world. Certainly it settledwhether the principal influence in the development ofcivilization was to be that of Babylon or that of Egypt. Jeremiah, like Nahum, twenty years before, saw thatno kingdom of Western Asia could make head againstBabylon, which had succeeded to all the power ofAssyria, and might even enhance it. But he tookcomfort in the philosophy of history that Amos hadfirst promulgated, and that Isaiah had applied to theconquests of Assyria. Nebuchadnezzar is the ser-vant of Jehovah, the instrument by which He ac-complishes His purposes (Jer. 43:10). But thethought of Jeremiah is an advance upon that of Isaiah. 138 Old Testament History. To Isaiah Assyria was the instrument of Jehovah tochastise Israel; to Jeremiah Babylon is the instrumentof Jehovah to destroy Israel as a nation. Out ofthis catastrophe was to emerge the spiritual Israelcomposed of individual souls loyal to Jehovah. Jeremiahs politicalcounsel was that thekingdom should remainloyal to its lawful suz-erain, Babylon, whichhad legally succeeded tothe rights of was the onlycourse that promisedsafety. In advocatingthis policy Jeremiah puthimself into sharp an-tagonism with the kingand the entire courtparty. For a long time Jere-miah seems to have hoped that thorough repentance,on the part of the king and the people might lead Je-hovah to avert the threatening peril. Surely he coulddeliver Jerusalem from Nebuchadnezzar, as He had de-livered her from Sennacherib. But Jehoiakim repeatedthe worst excesses and idolatries of the period of Man-asseh. Jeremiah resorted to a unique device to get hisviews impressively
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