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This pious monarch perished in battle against the Egyptians , ancl his demise Avas the heavy signal of misery ancl distress to the Avhole JeAvish nation , which the prophet Jeremiah bewailed in the song of lamentation which he composed on his death * . For Jehoiakim , whom Necho made king after he had taken Jerusalem , emulated the
wickedness of some of his forefathers , and again introduced the idolatrous initiations . Jeremiah , therefore , denounced the judgments of God plainly . He threatened in a public assembly of the people that God Avould pursue them to utter destruction if they continued to practise their dreadful mysteries . The priests and people , exasperated by his
boldness , would have put him to death , as Jehoiakim did the prophet Uriah , but he had the good fortune to escape out of their hands . Zephaniah and Habbakkuk confirmed the prophecies of Jeremiah , and the latter named the Chaldeans as the people destined to inflict God ' s judgments upon them . Jeremiah afterwards proceeded to show them that Nebuchadnezzar was the individual appointed to scatter them abroad ; and for the neglect of the Sabbatical
year for several centuries , the predicted captiA'ity should be continued seventy years , during which time the land should be desolate and enjoy her Sabbaths . The denunciation of these impending calamities had no effect on this ill-fated ancl obdurate people . They treated the idea of clanger with levity and indifference , until
Nebuchadnezzar actually took Jerusalem , put Jehoiakim in chains , sent numbers of the people captive to Babylon , made the sons and daughters of the royal family , and of the principal nobility , eunuchs in his palace ; amongst whom were Daniel the prophet , Hananiah , Mishael , and Azariah , Avhose names were exchanged by Ashpenaz , the chief of the eunuchs , to Belteshazzar , Shadrach , Meshech , and
Abednego . He plundered the Temple ot its Avealth , converted the kingdom into a Babylonian province , and bound its king by oath to the payment of an annual tribute . With this partial captivity commenced the seventy years which the prophet Jeremiah had named as the period of their desolation .
At this period the pure Science of Li ght or Masonry Avas introduced into Bab ylon , and Avas practised by Daniel and his chosen associates in opposition to the idolatrous
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. The History And Antiquities Of Freemasonry.
This pious monarch perished in battle against the Egyptians , ancl his demise Avas the heavy signal of misery ancl distress to the Avhole JeAvish nation , which the prophet Jeremiah bewailed in the song of lamentation which he composed on his death * . For Jehoiakim , whom Necho made king after he had taken Jerusalem , emulated the
wickedness of some of his forefathers , and again introduced the idolatrous initiations . Jeremiah , therefore , denounced the judgments of God plainly . He threatened in a public assembly of the people that God Avould pursue them to utter destruction if they continued to practise their dreadful mysteries . The priests and people , exasperated by his
boldness , would have put him to death , as Jehoiakim did the prophet Uriah , but he had the good fortune to escape out of their hands . Zephaniah and Habbakkuk confirmed the prophecies of Jeremiah , and the latter named the Chaldeans as the people destined to inflict God ' s judgments upon them . Jeremiah afterwards proceeded to show them that Nebuchadnezzar was the individual appointed to scatter them abroad ; and for the neglect of the Sabbatical
year for several centuries , the predicted captiA'ity should be continued seventy years , during which time the land should be desolate and enjoy her Sabbaths . The denunciation of these impending calamities had no effect on this ill-fated ancl obdurate people . They treated the idea of clanger with levity and indifference , until
Nebuchadnezzar actually took Jerusalem , put Jehoiakim in chains , sent numbers of the people captive to Babylon , made the sons and daughters of the royal family , and of the principal nobility , eunuchs in his palace ; amongst whom were Daniel the prophet , Hananiah , Mishael , and Azariah , Avhose names were exchanged by Ashpenaz , the chief of the eunuchs , to Belteshazzar , Shadrach , Meshech , and
Abednego . He plundered the Temple ot its Avealth , converted the kingdom into a Babylonian province , and bound its king by oath to the payment of an annual tribute . With this partial captivity commenced the seventy years which the prophet Jeremiah had named as the period of their desolation .
At this period the pure Science of Li ght or Masonry Avas introduced into Bab ylon , and Avas practised by Daniel and his chosen associates in opposition to the idolatrous