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Sunday Evenings, Or, an Easy Introduction to Reading of the Bible; Designed for Sunday Reading and Sunday-School Libraries - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833. Excerpt: ... We can scarcely believe that these are a part of that same nation whom we used to see so rebellious whenever they met with any contradiction to their wills and wishes. Surely they have reason to bless God for their captivity, which, though exceeding grievous for the time, had had so happy an effect upon their minds. At this part of their history we will break off for to-night, my child, but next Sunday I hope to tell you a great deal more about the building of the second temple. SIXTY-SIXTH SUNDAY EVENING. THE SECOND TEMPLE. JVI. I Wish, Edward, I could begin with more cheerful accounts of the Jews to-night, but you must be prepared to hear of more disappointments before you will find the temple growing up as you could wish. The trials of the Jews were not over yet. Hitherto they had been able to go on with their work, though but slowly, and each stone that was added to their temple helped to revive and cheer their drooping spirits. But Ahasuerus died, and Artaxerxes, who succeeded him, did not feel the same unwillingness to interfere with the building of the temple. Their bitter enemies saw with pleasure that they were more likely to get this king to oppose the Jews than either of the two that had gone before him, and they determined to make him their enemy if they could. They therefore wrote a letter to the king against the Jews. In this letter they told him, that the Jews which had come out of Babylon were building again the bad and rebellious city of Jerusalem, having already set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations and that if they were allowed to finish this work, they would no longer pay any tribute to the king of Babylon, but would immediately throw off" his authority and rise up against him, and that the Syrians and Palestines, led on...
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