468 A SHORT VIEW OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. 22. Q. What did he pronounce concerning Jehoiachin, who is also called Jeconiah and Coniah ? A. That he should die in a strange land, and none of his seed should sit on the throne of Judah ; Jer. xxii 24-30. and he accordingly was carried to Babylon, and lived long there, and there he died ; Jer. lii. 31. 23. Q. What advice did he give to Zedekiah king of Judah ? A. To submit willingly to the yoke of the king of Babylon, that both he and his people might meet with better treatment ; Jer. xxvii. 12, 18. 24. Q. How did the false prophet Hananiah oppose Je- remiah? A. He took the yoke from the prophet Jeremiah's neck, which probably he had worn for some years and as he brake it, he declared, the Lord would break the yoke of Nebu- chadnezzar in two years from the necks of the nations; Jer. 1 -11. 25. Q. How did Jeremiah answer him ? A. That God had appointed yokes of iron instead of yokes of wood, for all the nations to serve the king of Babylon, and that Hananiah should die that year for his falsehood which came to pass in two months after; Verses 10-17. 26. Q. Among all these predictions of distress did not Je- remiah prophesy any thing comfortable to the nation of Israel ? A. Yes, he foretold the return of the Jews to their own land with joy after seventy years captivity, and he encouraged their faith and hopeby many gracious promises of the Messiah who was to come ; Chapters xxv, xxix, xxx, -and xxxi. 27. Q. How did king Zedekiah deal with Jeremiah the prophet when Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem ? A. He shut him up in the court of the prison which was in the king's bouse,' because he foretold that Jerusalem should be taken, and that Zedekiah the king should not escape, but be carried to Babylon ; Jer. xxxii. l-5. 28. Q. What did Jeremiah do in prison, to assure them that the Jews should return from captivity, and possess the cities of Judah again ? A. By express order fromGod, he bought a field of his cousin Hananeel, paid him the money, subscribed the evidence, and sealed it before witnesses, as an emblem and pledge of what should be done in Jerusalem hereafter ; Verses 6-16, 44. 29. Q. What did Jeremiah do when he was at liberty ? A. He endeavoured to flee out of Jerusalem, but he was seized by the .guard upon suspicion of falling away to the Chaldeans, and be was thrust down into a dungeon by the princes, because he prophesied the destruction of the city; Chapters xxxvii. 11- 16. and xxxviii. 1 -0. 30. Q. What relief did the prophet find, here? A. When he sunk in the mire, Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a servant in the
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