Fragments
Leah and Rachel
I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but Leah the fruitful mother of children. Rachel had children also afterwards on the earth. Rachel, as representing the Jews, is the mother of Joseph, and later of Benjamin, that is, of a suffering Christ glorified among the Gentiles, while rejected of Israel; and of a reigning Christ, the son of his mother's sorrow, but of his father's right hand. (JND)
Christ is Everything
It is a great thing, when Christ has such a place with us as to be everything. In one sense this is the door by which all must pass through. At death, if not before, nature must decay and vanish. What is more nothing than death? All here is gone. We may learn this spiritually, or by circumstances, or at the moment of death itself; but learn it we must. We must find everything but Christ [to be] nothing. (JND Vol 21, p 173)
Joint-heirs with Christ
There is nothing Christ has that He does not bring us into. This is the character of perfect love. Christ gives "not as the world giveth." The world may give generously sometimes, but it has done with what it gives; Christ gives by introducing His own into what He is enjoying Himself. Take glory: "the glory which thou gavest me I have given them." Take joy: "that my joy might remain in you." Take peace: "peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you." Take love: "that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me." Having become man and accomplished perfect redemption, He would not take the inheritance without His joint-heirs. He is the source and head of all the glory that is given [us]. (JND Vol 27, pp 116 & 117)
A True Pastor
There is nothing I pray for more, than the dispensation of pastors. What I mean by a pastor is a person who can bear the whole sorrow, care, misery, and sin of another on his own soul, and go to God about it, and bring from God what will meet it, before he goes to the other. (JND Vol 1, p 343)
Death, Resurrection, Ascension
We have death with Christ in Romans, resurrection with Christ in Colossians, and sitting in heavenly places . .. in Ephesians. (JND Vol 26, p 273)
This Thing is From Me
Do you say, this trial or that is enough to discourage me? But no; it is God who is bringing you into it and God is with you in the place, dealing with you in grace, according to the place He has brought you into. ( JND Vol 27, p 412)
Responsibility for Light Received
He who has truly received the word in the heart is fitted to communicate it to others. He may not have the gift of preaching, but he loves the truth, he loves souls, and the glory of the Saviour; and the light which has been lit in his heart is to light all around him. (JND Vol 24, p 251)
Christ is Everything
It is a great thing, when Christ has such a place with us as to be everything. In one sense this is the door by which all must pass through. At death, if not before, nature must decay and vanish. What is more nothing than death? All here is gone. We may learn this spiritually, or by circumstances, or at the moment of death itself; but learn it we must. We must find everything but Christ [to be] nothing. (JND Vol 21, p 173)
Kings of Israel
PROPHETS PROPHETS
OF JUDAH KINGS OF JUDAH KINGS OF ISRAEL OF ISRAEL
Reigned B.C. 1 Kings B.C. Reigned
Shemaiah Rehoboam [17 years] 975 14.20,21 975 Jeroboam [22years] The man of
Iddo Abijam [3 years] 958 15.1 God from
Azariah, Asa [41 years] 955 -- 9 Judah
son of Ahijah
Oded -- 25 954 Nadab [2 years]
Hanani -- 33 953 Baasha [24 years]
16.8 930 Elah [2 years]
-- 10 929 Zimri [7 days]
-- 16 929 Omri [12 years] Elijah
Jehu, son -- 29 918 Ahab [22 years] Micah, son
of Hanani Jehoshaphat [25years] 914 22.41 of Imlah
-- 52 897 Ahaziah [2 years] Elisha
Jahaziel, 2 Kings
the Levite 3.1 896 Joram [12 years]
Eliezer, Jehoram [8 years] 892 8.16
son of Ahaziah [1 year] 885 -- 25
Dodavah Athaliah 884 10.36 884 Jehu [28 years]
Zechariah Jehoash [40 years] 878 12.1
son of 13.1 856 Jehoahaz[17 years] Jonah
Jehoiada -- 10 841 Jehoash [16 years]
Un-named Amaziah [29 years] 839 14.1
prophet -- 23 825 Jeroboam [41 years] Hosea
(2 Chron. 784 Interregnum [11 years] Amos
25.15) 773 Zachariah
Zechariah Uzziah, or [52 years] 810 -- 21 [6 months]
(2 Chron. Azariah 15.8 772 Shallum [1 month]
26.5) -- 13 772 Menahem [10 Years]
-- 17 761 Pekahiah [2 years]
-- 23 759 Pekah [20 years]
Isaiah -- 27 Oded
Micah Jotham [16 years] 758 -- 32 739 (Anarchy of 9 Years) (2Chron.
Ahaz [16 years] 742 16.1 730 Hoshea [9 years] 28.9)
Nahum Hezekiah [29 years] 727 18.1 721 Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. Puts
an end to the kingdom of Israel by
Joel Manasseh [55 years] 698 21.1 taking Samaria, in the ninth year of
Amon [2 years] 643 -- 19 Hoshea, and carries away the people
Jeremiah Josiah [31 years] 641 22.1 to Assyria.
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Habakkuk Jehoahaz [3 months] 610 23.31 THE CAPTIVITY
Zephaniah Jehoiakim [11 years] 610 -- 36 606 Nebuchadnezzar reigns, at first con-
Ezekiel Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah jointly with Nabopolassar -- and
Daniel [3 months, 10 days] 599 24.8 carries away the Jews to Babylon.
Obadiah -- 1 The 'times of the Gentiles' com-
Zedekiah [11 Years] 599 -- 18 mence. Beginning of the 70 years' cap-
tivity in Babylon.
Jerusalem taken; de- 588 25. 604 Nebuchadnezzar reigns alone.
struction of the temple 588 Nebuchadnezzar completely destroys
Jerusalem, city and temple.
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GOVERNORS OF JERUSALEM 538 Cyrus, King of Persia. captures Bab-
AFTER THE CAPTIVITY ylon: Reign of Darius the Mede.
Dan. 5.31.
Haggai Zerubbabel 536 Ezra 1.11
Zechariah Ezra 468 -- 7.1 536 Cyrus reigns there, and in the first
Malachi Nehemiah 455 Neh. 1.1 year of his reign decrees a party un-
der Zerubbabel to go and rebuild the
temple at Jerusalem. (End of cap-
tivity of 70 years.) Ezra 1.8-10.
Birth of the MESSIAH 5
529 Cambyses (son of cyrus) (called Ahasuerus). Ezra 4.6.
522 Smerdis (called Artaxerxes). Ezra 4.7.
521 Darius Hystaspes (called Darius). Ezra 4.24; Hag. 1.1; Zech. 1.1.
485 Xerxes (son of Darius Hystaspes) (called Ahasuerus). Esther 1.1.
474 Artaxerxes I, Longimanus (son of Xerxes) (called Artaxerxes). Ezra 7; Neh 2.
468 Return of Ezra from Babylon.
455 This twentieth year of Artaxerxes I (Longimanus) when the order was given through Nehemiah
to rebuild the city of Jerusalem, is the starting-point of the 'seventy weeks' of Dan. 9. Neh. 2.1.