This account that Im posting was from 1830s, its always good to look back and see how a country has progressed or digressed.
Now, There Is A Jewish Nation,
Your thoughts?
The Jews:
From the Christian Bible.
Class I Prophecies relating to the Jewish Nation in particular.
1. Predictions concerning the Posterity of Abraham. Gen. xii. 1. xlvi. 3. Exod. xxxii. 13. Gen. xiii. 16. xv. 5. xvii. 2. 46. xxii. 17. xxvii. 4. xxviii. 14. xxxii. 12. xxxv. 11 .
In less than five hundred years after the first of the above predictions was delivered, the number of the Israelites amounted to six hundred thousand men, besides women and children.
2. Prophecies concerning Ishmael. Compare Gen. xvi. 1012. xvii. 20. and xxv. 1218.
From him descended the various tribes of Arabs, whose numbers and manner of living have ever since been, and to this very day are, a verification of the predictions respecting them.
3. It was foretold that the Posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, should possess the land of Canaan: so that, though they should be expelled thence for their sins, yet their title should endure, and they should be resettled in it, and there continue in peace to the end of the world. (See Gen. xii. 7. xiii. 14, 15.17. xv. 1821. Exod. iii. 8. 17. Gen. xvii. 7, 8.)
Accordingly, the Jews enjoyed this land for above a thousand years:
and when the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin were carried into captivity,
it was announced that it should be for seventy years: which the event proved to be true,
and they continued in possession of Canaan, for six hundred years, until the final subversion of their polity by Titus.
Although the ten tribes carried captive by Shalmaneser, and the body of the two tribes who were carried into captivity by Titus, are not now in Canaan ;
yet since the time of their fined restoration has not arrived,
this is no objection against these antient prophecies, but a fulfillment of others: besides,
we have reason to believe that the Jews will ultimately be restored to their native country.
4. The twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy contains most striking Predictions concerning the Jews,
which have literally been fulfilled during their subjection to the Chaldeans and Romans,
and in later times in all nations where they have been dispersed.
To specify a very few particulars
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(1.) Moses foretold that their enemies would besiege and take their cities ;
This prophecy was fulfilled by Shishak King of Egypt,
Shal- maneser King of Assyria,
Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus Epiphanes, Sosius and Herod, and, finally, by Titus.
(2.) Moses foretold grievous famines during those sieges, so that they should eat the flesh of their sons and daughters.
This was fulfilled, six hundred years after the time of Moses, among the Israelites, when Samaria was besieged by the King of Assyria ;
again, about nine hundred years after Moses among the Jews, during the siege of Jerusalem, before the Babylonish captivity ;
and, finally, fifteen hundred years after his time, during the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans.
(3.) Moses predicted that the Jews should lie few in number.
This was literally fulfilled by immense numbers perishing by famine during the last siege of Jerusalem,
after which many thousands were sold; and also after their final overthrow by Hadrian,
when many thousands were sold, and those for whom purchasers could not be found
(Moses had foretold that no man would buy them] were transported into Egypt, where very' many perished by shipwreck or famine ;
and others were massacred.
Yet notwithstanding all their miseries and oppressions, they still continue a separate people,
and have become " an astonishment and a bye- word among the nations."
5. Josiah was prophetically announced by name, (1 Kings xiii. 2.) three hundred and sixty-one years before the event.
The fulfillment of this prophecy was remarkable, plainly showing it to be, not from man, but from God. (2 Kings xxxiii. 15.)
6. The utter Subversion of Idolatry among the Jews, foretold by Isaiah (ii. 1821.), was fulfilled after their return from the Babylonish Captivity.
The calamities, denounced against them by the same prophet, on account of their wickedness,
within two hundred years afterwards overtook them. (Isa. iii. 114. compared with 2 Chron. xxxvi.)
And, on the capture of Jersusalem by the Chalda?ans, a few poor people were left to till the land, as Isaiah had prophesied. (Isa. xxiv. 13, 14. compared with Jer. xxxix. 10.)
7. Jeremiah foretold the Conquests of Nebuchadnezzar, and the consequent captivity of the Jews.
These were literally accomplished. Compare Jer. xxvii. 37. with xxxix. 1114. And although the predictions of Jeremiah and Ezekiel concerning Zedekiah appeared to contradict each other,
Both were fulfilled in the event; Zedekiah seeing the King of Babylon at Jerusalem, who commanded his eyes to be put out, and being carried to Babylon where he died.
8. While Ezekiel was a captive in Chaldae, he prophesied (v. 12. and viii.) that the Jews, who remained in Judaea, should be punished for their wickedness.
In a very few years all the evils predicted literally came upon them by the Chaldaens.
9. The profanation of the temple by Antiochus Epi- phanes was foretold by Daniel (viii.) four hundred and eight years before the accomplishment of the prediction.
The same prophet also foretold the destruction of Jerusalem, and the cessation of the Jewish sacrifices and oblations.
10. Hosea foretold the present state of the people of Israel in these words :" They shall be wanderers among the nations." (ix. 17.)