CHAPTERXI. 447 and the King's house of all the gold and silver vessels ; Kings xiv. S -14. 44. Q. Was there any considerable thing fell out in the reign of Pekah ? A. This Pekah joined with the king of Syria to invade Judah, but he was repulsed : In his days Tiglath- Pilezer, king of Assyria, took many cities in Galilee, andcar- riedmany of thepeople captive to Assyria ; 2Kings xiv. 29. and xvi. 5 -9. 45. Q. Who was Hoshea, and what is recorded of him ? A. He was the last king of Israel ; he slew Pekah, and made himself king ; 2 Kings xv. 30. 46. Q. How came the kingdom to end in him ? A. in his days Shalmanezer, king of Assyria, took the city Samaria, bound Hoshea the king in prison, carried multitudes of Israel captive into Assyria, and distributed them into several distant countries, from which they have never returned to this day ; 2 Kings xvii. 1-3, 23. 47. Q. What provoked Shalmanezer to do this ? A. Hoshea had submitted to him, and afterwards plottedand rebelled against him ; Verses 3, 4. 48. Q. What provoked God to punish Israel thus ? A. The people of Israel, with all their kings, after their separation from the house of David, had been guilty of continual idolatry, in opposition to the many precepts and warnings of God, by the writings of Moses, and the voice of aU the prophets ; Verses 7-23. 49. Q. What became of Samaria, and the other cities of Israel, when the people where driven out of them ? A. Seve- ral of the heathen nations were placed there, and each worship- ped their own gods and idols ; wherefore the Lord sent lions amongst them, and destroyed several of them ; Verses 24-31. 50. Q. What was done upon this occasion to appease the anger of God and sage the people from the lions? A. The king of Assyria sent a Jewish priest thither, to teach them the wor- ship of the God of Israel.; Verse 27. 51. Q. What was the effect of this conduct of the king of Assyria ? A. These nations feared the God of Israel, andyet they could not lay aside their own idolatries, for they continued to serve their own graven images also in many following genera- tions ; Verse 41. 52. Q. But did they always continue in this mixed kind of religion ? A. In process of time they forsook their idols, wor- shipped the true God only, and submitted themselves to the Jew- ish religion, so as to receive the five books of Moses : They had a temple of their own built on Mount Gerisim, and in the Nety Testament are called Samaritans.
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