and the northern kingdom was destroyed completely. Then came Sennacherib. Judah had been vexed, but not completely wiped out. Jerusalem remained, “like a booth in a cucumber field.” Assyria was not able to overthrow Jerusalem. It was in Babylon that the Mesopotamian power reached its climax. Babylonia, the type or symbol of hostile opposition to God’s people, finally overthrew Jerusalem. The people of God were then dispersed. Into the world-wide empire, into the universalism of that day, the people