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How does Isaiah refer to this? Isa. 64:11. Had these things been repeatedly fore told? Isa. 64:2-9; 37:10; 26:9-11; Micah 3:12. Had it been so from the dedication of the temple ? 1 Kings 9 :6-9. What shall be the ultimate fate of Baby lon? Rev. 18:8, 9. What will then share in the conflagra tion? 2 Peter 3:10. Of what is fire the fitting figure? Psa. 89:46. (4 ) Jerusalem Bereaved, vs. 11, 12. What was done with the population of the city? vs. 11 , 12 . How does Hosea foretell this? Hos. 9:12. How extensive did it become? Jer. 12:17. How long was this captivity to continue? Jer. 25:11. Would Judah ever be brought back? Jer. 28:10-14. Would this return be permanent? Dan. 9:26. Will Israel ever be permanently settled in their land? Ezek. 37:18-28. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) God is slow to anger, and wrath is cumulative. (Rom. 2 :5). (2) A city’s sins will crumble the strong est city wall. (3) Zedekiah ran, but he ran into judg ment. (4) The way to flee from the wrath of God, is to flee to Him. (5) The real famine was a famine of the Word of God. (Amos 8:11). ( 6 ) For the people who go, there should be bread, in the church.
To what straits was the city reduced? Lam. 4 :4-10. Why had this calamity come upon it? Lam. 4:13-16. Had such a siege been long predicted ? Deut. 28:50-52. How severe did the famine become? Lam. 2.:20; 4:10. Had Moses foretold such a condition? Deut. 28:54-57. ( 2 ) Jerusalem Broken, v. 4. When they had made a breach in the. walls, what did the men of Babylon do? Jer. 39 :3. How did Zedekiah try to escape ? ' v. 4. How had Ezekiel foreshadowed this ? Ezek. 12:3-8. Did Zedekiah succeed in escaping? vs. 5, 6 . What was the last sad sight Zedekiah saw? Jer. 39:6. Did this solve the riddle of Ezekiel’s double prediction? Ezek. 12:13. Had Nebuchadnezzar’s aggravation prov ocation on the part of'Zedekiah? Ezek. 17:11-16. Did the Chaldeans complete the destruc tion of the walls? v. 10 . What other wall did Jerusalem have?- Psa. 125:2. What shall Jerusalem’s walls yet be called? Isa. 60:18. What retribution did Babylon suffer? Jer. 51:58. (3 ) Jerusalem Burned, v. 9. What parts of the city did the Chaldeans burn? vs. 8 -l(). Did they burn the temple? Jer. 52:13. Had this been foretold from the begin ning? Num. 24:22. How had Moses summed it up? Deut. 28:32-37.
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