behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. Jer. xxxviii, 1-3. Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD. He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live. Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it. Jer. xliv, 27. Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine, until there be an end of them. ISRAEL IN CAPTIVITY. FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES. 2 Kings xvii, 5. Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 2 Kings xviii, 8-12. He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, I (that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,) Samaria was taken. And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes; Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them. CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH. 2 Kings xxiv, 14-16. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorer sort of the people of the land. And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land; those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. they took the king, and brought 2 Kings xxv, 6, 7, 11, 19-21. So him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude,did Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carry away. And out of the city he took an officer, that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: And Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah, in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land. Jer. xxix, 2. 3. (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem,) By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) saying. Jer. xxxix, 9. Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained. Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war, and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar seventh year three thousand Jews, carried away captive: In the Jer. lii, 15, 24, 25, 28-30. Then and three and twenty: In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. CONDITION DURING THE perish among the heathen, and Lev. xxvi, 38. And ye shall the land of your enemies shall eat you up. Esther ii, 5, 6. Now, in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. Ps. lxxviii, 61, 62. And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. Ps. cxxxvii, 1-4. By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willow in the midstthereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall weed up: now shall they be among sing the LORD's song in a strange the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. sword. According to their uncleanness, and according to their transgressions, have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. land? Isa. Ixiii, 18. The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. Isa. Ixiv, 10. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Lam. i, 1, 3-5. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. Lam. ii, 1. How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! Lam. iv, 12. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. Ezek. xi, 15, 16. Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD; unto us is this land given in possession. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Ezek. xxxix, 23, 24. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies; so fell they all by the Hosea vili, 8. Israel is swallow. Zech. vii, 14. But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not: thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned; for they laid the pleasant land desolate. THE PRESERVED REMNANT. Ezra ix. 8. And now, for a little space, grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that cur God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. Isa. xxxvii, 31, 32. And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. Jer. iv, 27. For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. Jer. v, 18. Nevertheless, in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you. Jer. xxx, 11. For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. Jer. xl, 7--12. Now, when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; Then they came to Gedaliahi to Mizpah, eveu Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhum eth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. And Gedaliah the sonof Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, sware unto them, and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer-fruits, and oil. and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken. Likewise, when all the Jews that were in Moab, and Edom, and that were in all the among the Ammonites, and in countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer-fruits very much. unto Jer. xliv, 28. Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. Jer. xlvi, 28. Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished. Ezek, vi, 8. Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. Ezek. xii, 16. But I will leav a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD. Ezek. xiv, 22, 23. Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters; behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings; and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD. Amos ix, 8, 9. Behold, the eyes of the Lord GoD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD, For, lo, I will com mand, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Zech. xill, 8, 9. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God. VIII. RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY. Isa. xiv, 2. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of land of the LORD for servants and Israel shall possess them in the handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. Isa. xliv, 26, 27. That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built; and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: That saith to the deep, Be dry; and I will dry up thy rivers. Jer. xii, 14, 15. Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out, I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. Jer. xvi, 14, 15. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. Jer. xxiv, 5. Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. I will turn away your captivity, Jer. xxx, 3, 10. For, lo, the days Jer. xxxii,36,37. And now there of Israel, concerning this city, of Babylon. . Behold, I will gather them out of all countries. Jer. xxxiii, 7. And I will cause the captivity of Judah, and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. Jer. xlvi, 27. But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Jer.1,33,34.Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong; The LORD of hosts is his name. Ezek. xx, 38. .. .. I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Zeph. iii, 19. Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. ACCOMPLISHED UNDER CYRUS. Ezra i, 1-6. Now, in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, (that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled,) the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his Jer. xxix, 14. And I will be kingdom, and put it also in writfound of you, saith the LORD: anding, saying, Thus saith Cyrus 326 king of Persia, The LORD God of the house of the LORD which is in fered. the Ezra il, 70. So the priests, and the Levites, and some of porters, and the Nethinims dwelt people, and the singers, and the in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. Ezra iii, 1. And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. Ezra vii, 6, 7, 13. This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him. And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own free-will to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. Ezra ix, 9. For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. REBUILDING OF See under CANAAN. OPPOSITION TO THE builded, until another command Luke xxiil, 28-30. But Jesus, turning unto them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for days are coming, in the which your children. For, behold, the they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on to cease, and that this city be not Neh. il, 10, 11. When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. Neh. iv, 1. But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indiguation, and mocked the Jews. Neh. vl. 1-3. Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein, (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates,) That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono: but they thought to do me mischief. And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? IX.-PROPHECIES AND IN REFERENCE THEIR HISTORY. I any more remove the foot of Ps. lxxxv, 1. LORD, thou hast Ps. cxxvi, 1. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Isa. xiv, 3, 4. And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! Isa. xviii,7. In that time shall LORD of hosts of a people scattered the present be brought unto the and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted ou: and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. Isa. xxvii, 12, 13. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. Isa. xli, 11-13. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them. even them that conagainst shall be as nothing, and tended with thee: they that war as a thing of nought. For i the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. Isa. xliii, 5-7. Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. Babylon, flee ye from the ChalIsa. xlviii, 20. Go ye forth of deans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even The LORD hath redeemed his to the end of the earth; say ye, servant Jacob. Isa. xlix, 12, 18-21. Behold, these from the north and from the west; shall come from far: and, lo, these and these from the land of Sinim. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as For thy waste and thy desolate a bride doeth. places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. The children which thou shalt have,after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for thine heart, Who hath begotten me: give place to me, that I may dwell. Then shalt thou say in me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a capand who hath brought up these? tive, and removing to and fro? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? Isa. ii, 1, 12. Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rere-ward. Isa, liv, 3. For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Isa. lx, 3-5, 11, 12, 16. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, I prey upon thee will I give for a prey. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. Jer. xxxi, 8, 9. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations Ezek. xi, 17, 18. Therefore say, shall be utterly wasted. Thus saith the Lord GOD, I will shalt also suck the milk of the even gather you from the people, Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast and assemble you out of the counof kings: and thou shalt know tries where ye have been scatterthat I the LORD am thy Savioured, and I will give you the land and thy Redeemer, the mighty of Israel. And they shall come One of Jacob. thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof, from thence. Thou Isa. Ixi, 7, 9. For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land Ezek. xx, 41, 42. I will accept they shall possess the double; you with your sweet savour, when everlasting joy shall be unto them. I bring you out from the people, And their seed shall be known and gather you out of the counamong the Gentiles, and their tries wherein ye have been scatoffspring among the people: alltered; and I will be sanctified in that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. Isa. Ixvi, 10. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her. Jer. iil, 7, 18. And I said, after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me: but she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. Jer. xxiii, 3. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. Jer. xxx, 16, 20. Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that you before the heathen. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. Ezek. xxviii, 24-26. And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. Thus saith the Lord GOD, When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God. Ezek. xxxvi, 33, 34. Thus saith the Lord Gon, In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. Ezek. xxxvii, 18-22. And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanSay unto them, est by these? Thus saith the Lord Gop, Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, eren with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GoD, Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. Ezek. xxxviii, 8. After many days thou shalt be visited; in the latter years thou shalt come into from the sword, and is gathered the land that is brought back out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Amos ix, 14, 15. And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. Obadiah 17, 18. 20. But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble,and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau: for the LORD hath spoken it. And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. Micah iv, 6-8. In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have |