driven, to dwell in the land of Judah, Even men, and women, and children,and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerial. So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD. Thus came they even to Tabpanhes. Jer. xliv, 11-14. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah. And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for none shall return but such as shall escape. Ezek. xxix, 6. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. Exod. xiii, 20. And they took their journey from Succoth, and of the wilderness. Exod. xv, 27. And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by the water. Num. x, 11. 13, 28. And it came to pass, on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. And they first took their journey, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel, according to their armies when they set forward. Num. xi, 35. And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Ilazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth. Num. xii, 16. And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran. Num. xxi, 4, 10-13, 18,19. And they Journeyed from mount Hor, by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the childrenof Israel set forward andpitched in Oboth. And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab,toward the sun-rising. Hosea xi, 5, 6. He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but From thence they removed and the Assyrian shall be his king, be-pitched in the valley of Zared, cause they refused to return. And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. IV-ISRAEL IN THE WIL- (See under Desert, EARTII.) Exod. xiii, 18. But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea. And the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. Deut. il, 8. And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we From thence they removed, and Deut. i, 6, 7, 8. The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and Deut. viii, 15. Who led thee unto Lebanon, unto the great Lurned, and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. river, the river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD Sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them, and to their seed after them. Deut. ii, 2-4, 13. And the LORD spake unto me, saying, Ye have they shall be afraid of you; take brook Zered. Deut. iii, 29. So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. Deut. x, 7. From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. Joshua iii, 1, 2. And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the there before they passed over. children of Israel, and lodged And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host. Joshua iv, 19. And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. THE DIFFERENT STAGES. Num. xxxiii, 1-3, 5-15, 30-37, 4146, 49. These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies, under the hand of Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote their goings out according ment of the LORD: and these are to their journeys by the commandtheir journeysaccording to their goings out. And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol. And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea,into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. And they removed from Marah, aud came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there. And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Doplikah. And they departed from Dophikah, and encamped in Alush. And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. And they departed from Hashmonal, and encamped at Moseroth. And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Benejaakan. And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad. And they went from Hor-lagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah. And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah. And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. And they removed from Kadesh,and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon. And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth. And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab. And they departed from lim, and pitched in Dibon-gad. And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in Almondiblathaim. And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth, even unto Abel-shittim, in the plains of Moab. Ezion-gaber. ORDER AND POSITION OF THE (See under Banners, ARMY, SINS OF ISRAEL IN THE Num, xiv, 23-25, 31, 32. Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and get you into the Num. xxxii, 13, 15. And the But Deut. 1, 34-40. And the LORD ed the pleasant land; they believed not his word; But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. Ezek. xx, 13. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 1 Cor. x, 5. But with many of them God was not well pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Heb. iii, 16. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. Ezek. xx, 23, 34-36. I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the Deut. ii, 14, 15. And the space wilderness, that I would scatter in which we came from Kadesh- them among the heathen, and barnea, until we were come over disperse them through the counthe brook Zered, was thirty and tries. And I will bring you out eight years; until all the genera-from the people, and will gather tion of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD Sware unto them. For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. REFERENCES. Josh. v, 6. For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give is, a land that floweth with milk and honey. P's. cvi, 24-27. Yea, they despis you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched-out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pl,aded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. Hosca il, 14-16. Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And. I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi. Amos il, 10. Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. Acts xiii, 18. And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. Heb. iii, 17. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? Jude 5. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. V-ISRAEL IN CANAAN. LIST OF KINGS DESTROYED BY THE INVADERS. Josh. xii, 1-3, 9-24. Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east: Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon: And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah: The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Beth-el, one; The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one, The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; The king of Hormali, one; the king of Arad, one; The king of Libmah, one; the king of Adullam, one; The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one; The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one, The king of Aphek, one, the king of Lasharon, one; The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one; The King of Dor, in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of RELATION OF THE JEWS TO THE HEATHEN. a snare unto thee. Exod. xxxiil, 16. For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be se parated, I and thy people, from all Exod. xxxiv, 12. Take heed to Num. xv, 14-16, 29. And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. One law, and one manner, shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Num. xxiii, 9. For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. Joshua xxiii, 7. That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor canse to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow your selves unto them. 1 Kings viii, 53. For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD. Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. Ezek. xlvii, 22, 23. And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD. Joel iii, 7. Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and 'will return your recompence upon your own head. Ps. ix, 5. Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. Ps. xxxiii, 10. The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. Ps. cvi, 47. Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. Isa. Ixiii, 19. We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. Ezek. xx, 14. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. Ezek. xxx, 3. For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. Ezek. xxxvi, 7, 20. Therefore thus saith the Lord Gon, I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land." Ezek. xxxvii, 28. And the heaNeh. xiii, 1-3. On that day they then shall know that I the LORD read in the book of Moses in the do sanctify Israel, when my sancaudience of the people; and there-tuary shall be in the midst of them in was found written, that the for evermore. Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired 321 Hab. iii, 13, 14. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the X 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. it for thy righteousness; for thou the work of their hands, saith the art a stiff-necked people. 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 commandTHE SAMARITANS. ments and my statutes, according 2 Kings xvii, 24, 33, 34. And the to all the law which I commanded king of Assyria brought men your fathers, and which I sent to from Babylon, and from Cuthah, you by my servants the prophets. and from Ava, and from Hamath, Notwithstanding they would not and from Sepharvaim, and placed hear, but hardened their necks, them in the cities of Samaria in-like to the neck of their fathers, stead of the children of Israel; that did not believe in the LORD and they possessed Samaria, and their God. Also Judah kept not dwelt in the cities thereof. They the commandments of the LORD feared the LORD, and served their their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they own gods, after the manner of the made. For he rent Israel from nations whom they carried away from thence. Unto this day they the house of David; and they do after the former manners: they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat fear not the LORD, neither do they king: and Jeroboam drave Israel after their statutes, or after their from following the LORD, and ordinances, or after the law and made them sin a great sin. commandment, which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel. John iv, 9, 20-22,27..For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Our fathers worshipped in 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 of the LORD, which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. Ps. lxxviii, 59, 60. When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: So that be forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men. ruined, and Judal is fallen; beIsa, iii, 8. For Jerusalem is cause their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. Jer. ii, 7. And I brought you LORD. Ezek. v, 6-8. And she hath changed my judgments into 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 GOD, Be cause 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 I, 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 transgresthe sins of the house of Israel. sion of Jacob is all this, and for 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 her, Woman, believe me, the hour 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 seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? VI-WICKEDNESS OF THE JEWS, AND ITS PUNISHMENT. Deut. ix, 6. Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess fruit thereof, and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine 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 children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. Judges lii, 12-14. And the chil dren of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the the king of Moab against Israel, beLORD strengthened Eglon sight of the LORD. And he gath cause they had done evil in the ered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possesssed the city of palm-trees. children of Israel served Egion the king of Moab eighteen years. So the Judges vi, 1. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered seven years. them into the hand of Midian | raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of the wil 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. xlli, 22, 23. But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, 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. Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes 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 derness. THE CAPTIVITY. 2 Kings xx, 17. Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine 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. 2 Kings xxi, 12, 13. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, 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. 2 Kings xxiv, 1. In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. Isa. xxxix, 6. Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. Jer. xxiv, 8-10. And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they 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 remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt; 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 a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. Jer. xxv, 8, 9, 11. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Because ye have not heard my words, Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof,and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, 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. Jer. xiii, 19. The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none the LORD, that after seventy years Jer. xxix, 10, 11. For thus saith shall open them; Judah shall be be accomplished at Babylon I will carried away captive all of it, it visit you, and perform my good shall be wholly carried away cap-word toward you, in causing you tive. Jer. xv, 2, 4, 5, 14. And it shall come to pass, if they say unto 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 captivity, to the captivity. And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou dest? And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you. Jer. xvii, 4. And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee: and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer. xxxil, 4. And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes. Jer. xxxiv, 1-3. The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, (when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,) saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. And thou shalt not escape out of his hand,but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall |