your fathers, and which I sent to 20 And the LORD rejected all the you by my servants the prophets. 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks. like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.. 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified 22 For the children of Israel against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; rael out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. 23 Until the LORD removed Is 16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of II KINGS XVIII:9-12-B. C. 721 heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made." 9 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. 10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel Samaria was taken. 11 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: 12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, transgressed his covenant, and all then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them. lion. 6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. 7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holes, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. *No doubt a goodly number of the Tribe of Judah, being traders left their mountain home in Judah and went as merchants to Samaria and thereby completed "The House of Israel." AMOS V:1-3-B. C. 787 I Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. 5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. * 3 For thus saith the Lord God; | IS. VI:1-13—B. C. 758 1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in *Amos 5:3-". . .The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten to The House of Israel." |