CHAPTER XVI. 467 be made subject to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ; Jer. xxvii. 1 -12. 11. Q. Who were Jeremiah's chief enemies ? A. The priests and the false prophets, who would have put him to death in the reign of Jehoiakim ; Jer. xxvi. 1 -8. 12. Q. Who saved Jeremiah at that time ? A. The princes and the people saved him from death, though. the king slew Urijah the prophet, who confirmed the words of Jeremiah ; Verses 10-24. 13. Q. What abuses did Jeremiah receive from Pashur the priest ? A. Pashur smote the prophet, and put him in the stocks ; Jet. xx. I, 2. 14. Q. What evil was denounced against Pashur on this account ? A. God changed his name to Magor-missahib, to de- note that heshould be a terror to himself and to all his friends; and foretold that he should be led captive to Babylon, and die there ; Verses 3 -6. 15. Q. I -Iow did Jeremiah's patience hold out under the many injuries he received ? A. In themain he continued to trust in God, but once he murmured against God, refused to prophesy, and cursed the day of his birth ; Verses 7-18. 16. Q. In what manner did God overcome his murmuring and his disobedience ? A. The word of the Lord was in his heart like a burning fire, shut up in, his bones, and he could not forbear speaking ; Verse 9. 17. Q. How did Jeremiah publish his prophecies when he could not appear in public himself, being shut up in prison ? A. He commanded Baruch the scribe to write the words of his pro- phecies from his mouth in the volume of a book, and to read them in the ears of the people in the temple on a fast day ; Jer. xxxvi. 1 -10. 18. Q. What effect had this upon Jehoiakim the king ? A. When he heard of it he sent for the volume, read a little of it, cut it with a pen-knife, and burned it in the fire, and then sent to seize Jeremiah and Baruch; but God by his kind providence kept them hid from the king ; Verses20-26. 19. Q. What was the next message from God to Jeremiah ? A. That he should takeanother volume, and that Baruch should write over again from his mouth the same words, and many others of the same import ; Verses 27, 32. 20. Q. What did Jeremiah prophesy concerning Jehoahaz the son of Josiah kingof Judah, who is here called Shall= ? A. That he should die a captive in the land of egypt; Jer. xxii. 11, 12. 2 Kings xxiii. 31-34. 21. Q. What did he say concerning Jehoiakim his bro- ther ? A. That he should die unlamented, and be buried like an ass, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem ; Jer. xxii. 18, 20.
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