of Palestine was to lie desolate. Singularly enough, as we might consider it, God connects this with their failure to keep the sabbatic year. He had told them, when they came into the land, that every seventh year must be His. For 490 years they had not kept one sabbatic year. They doubtless thought they would do better by tilling the land annually, and that they would be richer as a result of taking their own way. God had told them that if they gave every seventh year to Him they would have abundance