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 The Old Testament in Verse 15 (Verses 195 - 206)

  • » Date: 1892
  • » Subject: The Old Testament in Verse 15 (Verses 195 - 206)
  • » Written By: Laura Keene Gleaves
  • » Addressed To: All children and Sunday School Scholars
  • » Transcriber: John R. Rich III, her great-grandson
  • » File # 8025-15

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195

 

195

U-V

 

And the King Artaxerxes that kindly persisted

464

Artaxerxes Longimannus, the

Unkindness Unto  Vashti

Ezra

Is also as King Ahasueris enlisted.

 

Ahasueris of Esther, reigns.

 

VII

And where this king flourished and where this king reigned

 

 

 

 

Was where the remainder of Jews had remained.

 

 

 

 

196

 

196

 

 

And his was the consort that would not be seen!

462

The nobles are feasted

 

Esther

Fair Vashti, the modest, the beauteous Queen!

 

and Vashti is divorced.

 

I

Who would not be seen, and a coronet lost,

 

 

 

II

As Esther was chosen, and she was divorced.

458

Esther is made Queen.

 

 

197

 

197

 

 

Thus many were willing, both willing, and able,

457

Artaxerxes issues a decree in

 

Ezra

To go forth with Ezra to prince Zerubbabel

 

favor of the Jews and sends

 

VII

So Ezra these Jews to Jerusalem brought,

 

Ezra as Governor to Judea.

 

 

And ably and wisely the Israelites taught.

 

 


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198

 

198

 

 

He found that fair heathen in marriage were taken,

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Upon his arrival in Jerusalem,

 

IX

And he prayed and he plead till those wives were forsaken.

 

Ezra separates the Jews from

 

 

But these were the Jews to Jerusalem carried,

 

their heathen wives.

 

 

So I’ll tell of the Jews that in Babylon tarried:

 

 

 

 

199

 

199

 

 

Of Esther the good, and the beauteous Queen,

452

Haman’s schemes against the

 

Esther

That Vashti succeeded, who would not be seen!

 

Jews are defeated in his own

 

III-X

Who Mordecai aided, and Haman defeated,

 

destruction.

 

 

The Haman so cruel as well as conceited!

 

 

 

 

200

 

200

 

 

Who sought not his anger, his malice to smother,

 

Haman hangs on the gallows

 

VII

And hung on the gallows prepared for another,

 

he had prepared for Mordecai,

 

9-10

And with Haman deceased, there were none to conspire,

 

the Jew.

 

 

But privilege granted to one Nehemiah.

 

 

 

 

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201

 

201

W  – Walls

 

He hastened from Babylon’s beauteous halls,

445

Nehemiah is sent as Governor

 

Nehemiah

To aid in re-building Jerusalem’s walls,

 

to Judea and re-builds

 

II

And these walls were re-built and a covenant made

 

Jerusalem’s walls.

 

 

And yet were the laws of their God disobeyed.

 

 

 

 

202

 

202

 

 

For when Nehemiah from Persia returned,

443

Nehemiah visits the Persian Court.

 

XIII

He found that those people that covenant spurned:

 

 

 

1-22

That the Temple was closed, and the Levites unpaid

428

Nehemiah returns to Judea.

 

 

And saleable wares on the Sabbath displayed;

 

 

 

 

203

 

203

 

 

And again had fair heathen in marriage been taken,

 

Nehemiah reforms the abuses

 

 

Though they knew of their fathers distressed and forsaken,

 

that crept in during his

 

23-31

So he could but remind them of Solomon’s sin,

 

absence from Judea.

 

 

Although far the wisest of men had he been.

 

 

 

 

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204

 

 

204

X  – Xerxes

 

Then the reign of the King Artaxerxes was run,

 

424

Artaxerxes dies.

 

 

And he was succeeded by Xerxes, his son,

 

Xerxes reigns.

 

 

And then was this Xerxes by Darius slain,

 

Xerxes slain.

 

 

And then did this infamous Darius reign.

 

Darius reigns.

 

 

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205

 

205

Y  – Yielding

 

And then when the Hebrews were yielding to sin,

 

Malachi prophesizes

 

Malachi

Both Malachi’s warnings and chidings begin.

 

concerning the coming of

 

I II III

And then is Elijah foretold and awaited!

 

Elijah, as John the Baptist

 

IV

A prophet as great as the prophet translated!

 

was called.

 

 

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206

 

206

Z  – Zeal & Zion

 

He tells them of Zion!  He shows them the way!

400

Malachi dies.

 

IV

He bids them the zeal of the chosen display!

 

 

 

 

And bidding them cling to the teachings of Moses,

 

 

 

 

With Malachi’s warning the Testament closes!

 

The Old Testament closes.

 

 

 

T H E   E N D.

 

 

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