THE HISTORICAL CATECHISM. 291 59. Q. Who was the second king of Israel? A. David, who was raised to the kingdom from keeping of sheep; 1 Sain. xvi. 11, 13. Ps. lxxviii. 70, 71. 60. Q. What was David's character ? A. He was a pro- phet, 'and a man after God's own heart, who delivered Israel from their enemies, and ruled them well; 1 Sam. xiii. 14. Acts ii. 30. and xiii. 22. 61. Q. But was not David guilty of some great sins ? A. Yes, and God punished him for them in the great troubles he met in his family ; 2 Sam. xii. 10. 62. Q. Who was the third' king of Israel ? A. Solomon the son of David, who was the wisest of men ; 1 Kings iv. 29-31. 63. Q. What did Solomon do for God and for the people ? A. He built a very glorious temple for the worship of God at Jerusalem, and he raised the nation of Israel to their highest glory ; 1 Kings iv. 20, 21, 25. and vi. 1, 2-11 -38. and x. 27. 64. Q. What became of the people of Israel in followin. ages.? A. They were divided into t e kingdoms which were called the kingdom of Judah, and the kingdom of Israel; 1 Kings xii. 15-20. 65. How did they behave themselves toward God after this division. A. Most of their kings, as well as the people, pro- voked God by their idols and their great wickedness; 2 Kings xvii. 7, 8. 66. Q. How did God punish them for these crimes ? A. When they would not hearken to the prophets which God sent among them, they were carried away captive by their enemies into the latid of Assyria ; 2 Kings xvii. 6, 13, 18, 19, 20. and xxv. 8 -11. 2 Citron. xxxvi. 14-21. 67. Q. Did they never return again to their own land ? A. Yes, after seventy years captivity, the tribe of Judah returned, with many of Benjamin and Levi, and they were all called Jews ; Ezra i. 5. Nehem. i. 2. 68. Q. What did theydo at their return ? A. They built the city of Jerusalem, and the temple again, and they set up the worship of the true God; Ezra v. 1. and vii. 6, 25.- Nehem. ii. 17. 69. Q. Did they continue afterward to obey God and dwell in their own land ? A. Though they were guilty. of .many sins, yet they never fell to the worship of idols again ; Rom. ii. 22. Nor where they ever wholly driven out of their own land till after the coming of the Messiah the Saviour.
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