Shall he escape that doeth such things?— The faithlessness of Zedekiah and his court to his own sworn covenant was an act…

An explanation of the allegory is now added. The figure being dropped, God shows what He had until now set forth enigmatically. We said the object …

But he rebelled against him Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon, broke the covenant he entered into, and violat…

The parable is explained, and the particulars of the history of the Jewish nation at that time may be traced. Zedekiah had been ungrateful to his b…