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Prophets and Kings
turned not from the fierceness of His great wrath, ... because of all
the provocations that Manasseh had provoked Him withal.”
2 Kings
23:25, 26
. The time was rapidly approaching when Jerusalem was
to be utterly destroyed and the inhabitants of the land carried captive
to Babylon, there to learn the lessons they had refused to learn under
circumstances more favorable.
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