MISIOKK OF THE PROPHETS.
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xi. 41, and elsewhere,) that his acts were written in the
book of Nathan, the prophecy of Ahijah, and the visions of
Iddo against Jeroboam, (2 Chron. ix.29;) but no other
knowledge of these books has come down to us; and per¬
haps they were chiefly genealogical, and were destroyed
with other Jewish writings in the frequent revolutions of
the country.
Solomon was anointed king of all Israel, according to
Newton, 1019 J3. C, and he died in the year of the world
3029.
Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amos, was an Ethio¬
pian, who prophesied unto Egypt and Ethiopia. As God
commanded him, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from
off thy loins, and put off" thy shoes from thy feet, walk
naked and barefoot, he did so, three years, for a sign
and a wonder unto Egypt and Ethiopia, preaching unto
his brethren the word of God; but they obeyed not the
word ofthe Lord by the mouth ofthe prophet; and were
led away, young and old, naked and barefoot, info cap¬
tivity (Isa. 20.) As they were black, so was he; as
he was naked, so were they. Led naked and barefoot,
young and old, into captivity! Even unto this day, from
Africa, their descendants are led awav, by a wicked
people, into slavery. But it shall come to pass that the
Lord shall set his hand again, the second time, to recover
the remnant of his people which shall be left, from
Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from
Shinar or Chaldea, from Elain, from Hamath, and from
the Islands of the Sea, the Lord shall set up an ensign
for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel,
and gather together the dispersed of Judah, from the
four corners of the earth. (Isa. 11.) Whom the Lord
of hosts shall bless, saying, blessed be Egypt, my people,
and Assyria, the works of my hands, and Israel mine
inheritance. (Isa. 19.) For they shall cry unto the
Lord, because ofthe oppressors, and he shall send them
a Savior and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
(Isa. xix. 20.) The children of Judah, and the children
of Egypt and Ethiopia, ye have sold. Behold, I will
raise^them out of the place whither ye have sold them,
and will return your recompense upon your own heads.
(Joel iii. 7.) And they shall take them captive whose
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