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 The Old Testament in Verse 12 (Verses 162 - 177)

  • » Date: 1892
  • » Subject: The Old Testament in Verse 12 (Verses 162 - 177)
  • » Written By: Laura Keene Gleaves
  • » Addressed To: All children and Sunday School Scholars
  • » Transcriber: John R. Rich III, her great-grandson
  • » File # 8025-12

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162

 

162

Date of the Captivity

 

And yet when he’d promised his servant to be

 

Nebuchadnezzar makes

607

2 Ki.

King Nebuchadnezzar departed we see,

 

Jehoiakim tributary, carrying

 

XXIV

Departed well pleased, and appeased in a measure

 

off many of the sacred

 

1-7

By promises servile, and secular treasure.

 

vessels.

 

 

163

 

163

 

 

And princes were captured, the same as foretold

 

The fulfillment of Isaiah’s

 

Dan.

On King Hezekiah’s displaying his gold.

 

Prophecy made unto King

 

I

He was told his descendants the servants should be,

 

Hezekiah.

 

 

Of the Kings that these princes in Babylon see!

 

 

 

 

164

 

164

 

 

And servants were they!  Was not Daniel one?

 

The descendents of Hezekiah

 

II

When Nebuchadnezzar his victory won.

 

are carried captive to Babylon,

 

IIII

And Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego of old,

 

and the 70-year Captivity

 

 

Who would not bow down to the idols of gold.

 

begins.

 

 

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165

 

165

M  – Monarchy

Jer.

And in the fourth year that Jehoiakim reigned,

605

 

 

XXXVI

The word of the Lord was by Baruch explained,

 

 

 

1-22

The word that the Lord had so mercifully sent,

 

 

 

 

With the hope that his people would hear and repent.

 

 

 

 

166

 

166

 

Jer.

The book was dictated by one Jeremiah,

 

The Word of the Lord is cut

 

XXXVI

The same that Jehoiakim burnt in the fire,

 

with a pen-knife and burned

 

23-32

And when with another the people detect him,

 

in the fire by Jehoiakim.

 

 

They promise to kill, and his God, to protect him!

 

 

 

 

167

 

167

 

XXII

And his God doth protect him, denouncing the king,

599

Jehoiakim is slain and his

 

18-19

Foretelling the ruin, such ruin should bring!

 

body is cast upon the

 

2 Ki. XXIV

This ruin doth quickly the king encompass!

 

highway like that of an ass.

 

1-7

His body is treated like that of an ass!

 

 

 

 

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168

 

168


 

And thus when Jehoiachin came to the throne,

 

Jehoiachin reigns.  In three

N  – Nebuchad-nezzar

8-16

No mercy by Nebuchadnezzar was shown!

 

months he is carried captive

 

 

He captured the king with his wives and his mother,

 

to Babylon.

 

 

The Princes, the builders, and many another!

 

 

 

 

169

 

169

 

 

And the kingdom was given by him to another

 

The kingdom is given to

 

 

To one Zedekiah, Jehoiakim’s brother!

 

Zedekiah, the son of Josiah,

 

17-19

And again was the victor appeased in a measure,

 

on his swearing fealty to

 

 

By promises servile, and secular treasure!

 

Nebuchadnezzar.

 

 

170

 

170

 

 

And then were these captives to Babylon carried,

 

Jeremiah remains unharmed

 

Jer.

Whilst the prophet unharmed in Jerusalem tarried;

 

in Jerusalem and writes a

 

XXIX

But he wrote them a letter to lessen their fears,

 

letter to the captives in

 

1-10

And told of its endings in seventy years,

 

Babylon.

 

 

171

 

171

 

 

And he bade them contented to be in the land,

595

Ezekial begins to prophecy,

 

Ezek.

As such was the mighty Jehovah’s command.

 

foretelling and portraying the

 

IV

And Ezekial a war and a famine portrayed

 

coming desolation.

 

 

With a pan and a slate, and a fort that he made:

 

 


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* This is an intentional change of meter, due to the valued suggestion of a trained minister.  Inasmuch as the poem is to be memorized, and the Judges are so numerous, it is well to have a peculiar verse that will stand out as a landmark in the mind of the child, rendering it the easier to remember what came before, and what after the same.  Since there are fifteen Judges and Jair the eighth and central, the peculiar verse is very appropriately concerning him.

 

 

172

 

172

 

Ezek.

And when he had carefully pictured the fray,

 

Ezekial reveals the exact time

 

XXIV

He told of the year and the month and the day

 

of Babylon’s conquest and

 

1-2

Of Babylon’s conquest, Jerusalem’s woe,

 

Jerusalem’s woe.

 

 

And captives led forth by a pitiless foe!

 

 

 

 

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173

 

173

O  – Oath

 

And did not the conquered to freedom aspire

592

Zedekiah breaks oath to

 

2 Ch.

When the oath had been broken of King Zedekiah?

 

Nebuchadnezzar. 

 

XXXVI

And was not the Kingdom of Judah besieged?

590

Nebuchadnezzar besieges

 

11-20

And was not their woe to their prophet alleged?

 

Jerusalem.

 

 

174

 

174

 

Jer.

Yet the prophet forewarned them, discouraged their flight,

588

The flight of Zedekiah against

 

XXXVIII

When the kind would escape under cover of night!

 

Jeremiah’s advice.  Zedekiah

 

10-28

And the Chaldeans followed, the Chaldeans caught him,

 

is captured by the Chaldeans.

 

XXXIX 1-9

And then unto Nebuchadnezzar they brought him!

 

 

 

 

175

 

175

 

 

And they murdered his sons, and they put out his eyes,

 

The sons of Zedekiah are slain

 

2 Ki.

And in darkness, in chains, and in prison, he dies!

 

 before his eyes, and his eyes

 

XXV

And many were captured, and many were slain,

 

are then put out.

 

7-21

And the few that they spared, did not dare to complain.

 

 

 

 

176

 

176

 

 

With the Temple, the Palace, the houses on fire,

 

Gedaliah is made Governor of

 

 

They were glad to be ruled by the kind Gedaliah!

 

Judah by Nebuchadnezzar,

 

22-24

But his efforts were futile, his kindness was vain,

 

but is treacherously slain.

 

 

His conduct was blameless, and yet he was slain.

 

 

 

 

177

 

177

 

 

‘Twas Ishmael who slew him, who hunger pretended,

 

Gedaliah is killed at his own

 

 

But murdered his host, when the meal had been ended!

 

table, by Ishmael, a prince of

 

25

Jeremiah, who urged them to stay in the land,

 

Judah.

 

 

And told them that such was Jehovah’s command!

 

 

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