The Old Testament in Verse 11 (Verses 148 - 161)

148

148

2 Ki.

Isaiah informed him, the princes who saw,

712

Isaiah’s prophecy concerning

XX

Should carry them off as their trophies of war;

the descendants of King

14-18

And that his descendants the servants should be,

Hezekiah.

Of the kings that we later in Babylon see!

149

149

19

And unto the prophet, the monarch replied,

Hezekiah is grateful unto God

He was grateful his God should so kindly decide,

for the promise of peace in his

Sending him peace, blessed peace, in his days,

days.

And unto him God gave all honor and praise.

150

150

XIX

And when the Assyrians pressed him too hard,

710

Sennacherib invading Judah,

1-35

In sack-cloth most meekly he prayed to the Lord.

Isaiah and King Hezekiah

2 Ch. XXXII

No praying is fruitless!  No pleading is vain!

resort to prayer.

9-23

By an angel of death were the enemy slain!

151

151

And the Assyrian king went the way that he came!

185,000 men are slain in one

2 Ki.

Defeated, depleted and covered with shame!

 night by the Angel of the Lord.

XIX

And when he had joined the idolatrous ones,

706

Sennacherib slain.

36-37

The idolator died through idolatrous sons!

152

152

And in Judah were idols that people adored,

The Israelites continuing in

Micah

Although Hezekiah those idols abhorred.

idolatry, the Babylonish

I

Though Micah, admonished, entreated and plead,

captivity is foretold by Micah.

And pictured them captives to Babylon led.

153

153

And thus when the years that were added – were ended,

698

Hezekiah dies, and his son

2 Ch.

And the throne to his son Manasseh had descended,

Manasseh, reigns.

XXXIII

Then the sun and the stars, did the people adore,

Manasseh worships the sun

1-5

Those people more wicked than ever before.

and stars.

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2 Ch.

154

154

XXXVII

This wicked Manasseh unlike Hezekiah,

The wicked Manasseh forces

6

Commanded his children to pass through the fire!

his children to pass through

 2 Ki. XXIII

And much were the sins of Manasseh bewailed,

the fire before his idols.

26-27

Since great was the woe upon Judah entailed.

155

155

2 Ch.

And yet when Manasseh a captive was taken,

677

Sinning heinously Manasseh

XXXIII

His God was implored and his idols forsaken!

is captured, but upon

11-17

And his pleadings were heard!  To his home he returned;

repentance is restored.

When he honored his God, and his idols he spurned!

156

156

And then Amon reigned, on idolatry bent!

643

Amon reigns.

21-25

For he worshipped the idols and did not repent!

641

Amon is murdered, and his

No, he did not repent as his father had done

son, 8-year-old Josiah, reigns.

And when he was murdered, they flocked to his son.

157

157

And though three were the hundreds of years that had passed,

The fulfillment of the prophecy

XXXIV

The prophecy true, found fulfillment at last.

made unto Jeroboam, 1^st king

1-3

Of idols demolished, and altars defiled

of Israel.

Through Ammom’s successor, this beautiful child.

158

158

Of righteous Josiah the prophet had spoken,

Josiah sent and took men’s

4-5

When the ashes were spilled and the altar was broken

bones out of the sepulchers

2 Ki. XVIII

And there on the altar through righteous Josiah

and burned them on the altar

14-18

Men’s bones did defile it and burn in the fire.

at Bethel.

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159

159

2 Ch. XXXVI 1-2

And he idols abolished, and idols abhorred,

610

Josiah is slain in battle by

2 Ki. XXIII

And yet there were people who idols adored.

Pharaoh-Necho, and Josiah’s

31-33

And amongst them was King Jehoahaz, his son,

son, Jehoahaz reigns.

Who did not do right as his father had done!

2 Ch.

160

160

XXXVI

Who did not do right, and who misery wrought,

609

Pharaoh-Necho captures

3-5

Till this captive of Pharaoh, to Egypt they brought!

Jehoahaz, and makes

2 Ki. XXIII

And the kingdom was given by him to another!

Jehoiakim the brother of

34-37

By whom but by Pharaoh?  To whom, but his brother?

Jehoahaz, king.

161

161

L – Loss of Liberty

And yet was this King’s an unenviable plight,

607

Nebuchadnezzar, king of

2 Ch.

Since Pharaoh had left him unable to fight!

Babylon, makes war upon

XXXVI

And thus was Jehoiakim forced to obey,

Jehoiakim, king of Judah.

5-9

King Nebuchadnezzar in battle array!