Kingdom And Capital Fallen

1. Why Government Office is Refused. "For Jerusalem is failed and Judah fallen, because their tongue and their deeds (are) against Jehovah, to embitter (insult) the eyes of His glory," (v. 8, Heb.). "For, " expressing "the reason why the conscripted man refuses to accept the reins of public office" (E.J. Young). For the ruin (v. 3) of any nation, generally, it has only itself to thank, and that because of its profane and blasphemous offending of the holiness and glory of God. There is no...