Abrahamic Covenant (Gen. 12:3; etc.), the predictions concerning Judah (Gen. 49:10–12), and the Davidic Covenant (2 Sam. 7; etc.). He then remarks, The deportation of the ten tribes (722 B.C.) had been an appalling calamity; but far more catastrophic would be the annihilation of Judah. Yet what God had just announced appeared to the prophet as the Supreme Judge’s death sentence upon Judah. In horrified shock he cries out, We shall not die! … That cannot be, O God! That would contradict Thine own
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