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Show J 46 DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. Je*s are restored, is said to be gathered “to the valley of Jehoshaphat :’? See Joel ni. The various circumstances of the destruction of Jerusalem afforded a lively incipient comment on the many denunciations of the battle of that great day of God CHAPTER ae Almighty, which awaits the antichristian world; while it is fully evi. dent, that the passages more especially allude to the tren.endous scenes of judgment, A@he Millennium. which shal! introduce THE CERTAIN RESTORATION OF SEF FE@IEE) icin \ ie) ia Fa en ; inde) if a ae. A FASS es ms ma © fn aN | an The subject of this chapter is introduced with a concise view of the expulsion of the ten tribes from the promised land. ‘The ten tribes revolted from the house of David, early in the reign of Rehoboam, son and successor of king Solomon. ‘They received from this young prince treatment, which was considered impolitic and rough; upon which they separated themselves from that branch of the house of Israel, who, irom that time, have,been distinguished by the name of Jews. The revolting ten tribes submitted to another king, Jeroboam. And this breach was never after healed, Jeroboam, to perpetuate and widen this breach, and apprehending that if the Jews and ten tribes amicably met for public worship, according to the law of God, the rupture between them would probably soon be healed, set up two golden calves, one in Dan, and one in Bethel; and ordered that the ten tribes of Israel should meet there for their public worship. He thus “ made Israel to sin.” And would te God he had been the lasi who has made the professed worshippers of Jehovah “to sin,” difierent places of worship, from evangelical than those of Jeroboam. by assigning them motives not more |
