. The training of the Chosen people. e broken down, the temple,the palaces and the princi-pal houses burned (vss. 9,10), and the leading citizensput to death (vss. 19-22).Zedekiah, after witnessing theexecution of his two sons,had his eyes put out. Jo-sephus cites the fate of the kingas a remarkable fulfilment ofComer of the wail around two apparently contradictorythe Temple Area. prophecies (Jer. 34:3; Ezek. This wall runs 80 feet below 12: I 3 ) .the surface of the ground to t»i_ r n r t 1 • r -the solid rock. Many of the 1 he fall of Jerusalem is one 01 great btones have remained in , i , ,
. The training of the Chosen people. e broken down, the temple,the palaces and the princi-pal houses burned (vss. 9,10), and the leading citizensput to death (vss. 19-22).Zedekiah, after witnessing theexecution of his two sons,had his eyes put out. Jo-sephus cites the fate of the kingas a remarkable fulfilment ofComer of the wail around two apparently contradictorythe Temple Area. prophecies (Jer. 34:3; Ezek. This wall runs 80 feet below 12: I 3 ) .the surface of the ground to t»i_ r n r t 1 • r -the solid rock. Many of the 1 he fall of Jerusalem is one 01 great btones have remained in , i , , j « • , , position as they were originally the niOSt tremenaOUS object leS-iud in Solomons time. ^ ^ wQrld ^ ^ ^ q£ the results of disloyalty to the Most High. There havebeen catastrophes as appalling, but the interior sig-nificance of this one has been interpreted by the proph-ets. We are left in no manner of doubt that Jeru-salem fell when Jehovah, who had shielded her fromSennacherib, withdrew His hand because the measure. Chapter 38. The Fulfilment of Doom 145 of her disloyalties was full. The destruction as well asthe protection of Jerusalem showed that there was aGod in Israel. And yet the purpose of the Most High was not ut-terly thwarted by the wrath of man. The ideas, thehopes, the faith that made Judah the nation of Je-hovah, the custodian of the highest revelation theworld had known, were guarded by the little colonyin Babylonia, and it was from this little group ofexiles, purged by trouble of the last traces of poly-theism, that there came the splendid light of the laterprophets.
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