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Isaiah informed him, the princes who saw, |
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Isaiah’s prophecy concerning |
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Should carry them off as their trophies of war; |
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the descendants of King |
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And that his descendants the servants should be, |
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Hezekiah. |
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Of the kings that we later in Babylon see! |
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And unto the prophet, the monarch replied, |
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Hezekiah is grateful unto God |
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He was grateful his God should so kindly decide, |
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for the promise of peace in his |
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Sending him peace, blessed peace, in his days, |
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days. |
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And unto him God gave all honor and praise. |
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XIX |
And when the Assyrians pressed him too hard, |
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Sennacherib invading Judah, |
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In sack-cloth most meekly he prayed to the Lord. |
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Isaiah and King Hezekiah |
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2 Ch. XXXII |
No praying is fruitless! No pleading is vain! |
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resort to prayer. |
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By an angel of death were the enemy slain! |
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151 |
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And the Assyrian king went the way that he came! |
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185,000 men are slain in one |
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2 Ki. |
Defeated, depleted and covered with shame! |
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night by the Angel of the Lord. |
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XIX |
And when he had joined the idolatrous ones, |
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Sennacherib slain. |
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36-37 |
The idolator died through idolatrous sons! |
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152 |
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And in Judah were idols that people adored, |
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The Israelites continuing in |
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Micah |
Although Hezekiah those idols abhorred. |
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idolatry, the Babylonish |
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Though Micah, admonished, entreated and plead, |
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captivity is foretold by Micah. |
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And pictured them captives to Babylon led. |
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153 |
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And thus when the years that were added – were ended, |
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Hezekiah dies, and his son |
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2 Ch. |
And the throne to his son Manasseh had descended, |
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Manasseh, reigns. |
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XXXIII |
Then the sun and the stars, did the people adore, |
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Manasseh worships the sun |
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1-5 |
Those people more wicked than ever before. |
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and stars. |
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2 Ch. |
154 |
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XXXVII |
This wicked Manasseh unlike Hezekiah, |
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The wicked Manasseh forces |
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Commanded his children to pass through the fire! |
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his children to pass through |
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2 Ki. XXIII |
And much were the sins of Manasseh bewailed, |
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the fire before his idols. |
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Since great was the woe upon Judah entailed. |
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155 |
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2 Ch. |
And yet when Manasseh a captive was taken, |
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Sinning heinously Manasseh |
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XXXIII |
His God was implored and his idols forsaken! |
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is captured, but upon |
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And his pleadings were heard! To his home he returned; |
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repentance is restored. |
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When he honored his God, and his idols he spurned! |
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And then Amon reigned, on idolatry bent! |
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Amon reigns. |
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For he worshipped the idols and did not repent! |
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Amon is murdered, and his |
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No, he did not repent as his father had done |
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son, 8-year-old Josiah, reigns. |
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And when he was murdered, they flocked to his son. |
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157 |
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157 |
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And though three were the hundreds of years that had passed, |
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The fulfillment of the prophecy |
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XXXIV |
The prophecy true, found fulfillment at last. |
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made unto Jeroboam, 1st king |
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1-3 |
Of idols demolished, and altars defiled |
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of Israel. |
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Through Ammom’s successor, this beautiful child. |
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158 |
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Of righteous Josiah the prophet had spoken, |
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Josiah sent and took men’s |
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When the ashes were spilled and the altar was broken |
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bones out of the sepulchers |
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2 Ki. XVIII |
And there on the altar through righteous Josiah |
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and burned them on the altar |
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Men’s bones did defile it and burn in the fire. |
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at Bethel. |
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And he idols abolished, and idols abhorred, |
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Josiah is slain in battle by |
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2 Ki. XXIII |
And yet there were people who idols adored. |
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Pharaoh-Necho, and Josiah’s |
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31-33 |
And amongst them was King Jehoahaz, his son, |
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son, Jehoahaz reigns. |
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Who did not do right as his father had done! |
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2 Ch. |
160 |
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XXXVI |
Who did not do right, and who misery wrought, |
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Pharaoh-Necho captures |
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3-5 |
Till this captive of Pharaoh, to Egypt they brought! |
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Jehoahaz, and makes |
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2 Ki. XXIII |
And the kingdom was given by him to another! |
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Jehoiakim the brother of |
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34-37 |
By whom but by Pharaoh? To whom, but his brother? |
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Jehoahaz, king. |
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161 |
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L – Loss of Liberty |
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And yet was this King’s an unenviable plight, |
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Nebuchadnezzar, king of |
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2 Ch. |
Since Pharaoh had left him unable to fight! |
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Babylon, makes war upon |
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XXXVI |
And thus was Jehoiakim forced to obey, |
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Jehoiakim, king of Judah. |
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5-9 |
King Nebuchadnezzar in battle array! |
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