* Kings 24: 10-20. Jehoiachin followed the evil path of his predecessors. Again Jerusalem was besieged and Deuteronomy 28: 48 began to be fulfilled. The illadvised revolt of the young king ended in bitter disap-

pointment, as Jeremiah had foretold, 22: 24, 25; and the final tragedy came on apace, in spite of the insistence of the false prophets that the sacred vessels of the Temple. should be returned from Babylon, Jer. 27:16. Finally, a sad procession issued from the gate of the doomed city, and the king, his nobles and officials, presented themselves before the enemy, sitting on the ground, clothed in black, their faces covered in their mantles, Jer. 13:18. They were at once deported to Babylon with thousands more. The treasures in the Temple and the palace were rifled; and a ery of agony and astonishment arose from Jeremiah and the whole land. See Jer, 22: 24, 28; some add Psalms 42 and 43.

Zedekiah, Josiah’s youngest son, enticed into a league with neighboring nations against the conqueror, brought upon himself and his people a yet more disastrous overthrow. How foolish man’s wisdom becomes when he departs from the living God! ‘‘A wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed,’’ Jas. 1: 6,