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blUHl' AND TRUTH.
Cushi, the son of Jedediah, the son of Amariah, the son
of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king
of Judah. He exhorted the Jews to repentance, and
predicted the destruction of cities and nations " I will
utterly consume all things from off" the land, saith the
Lord. Men and beasts, the fowls ofthe heaven, and the
fish ofthe sea; I will also stretch out mine hand upon
Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Howl
ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant-people
are cut down Gaza shall be forsaken, and Askelon a
desolation. They shall drive out Ashdod at the noon¬
day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Wo unto the inhab¬
itants ofthe sea-coast, the nation ofthe Cherethites, the
word ofthe Lord is against you. O Canaan, the land of
the Philistines, I will even destroy thee. Therefore, as
I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, surely
Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as
Gomorrah. Ye Ethiopians, ye shall be slain by the
sword. And he will stretch out his hand against the
North and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a
desolation." Zephaniah prophesied 630 years B. C.
Haggai.—Haggai, the first of the three prophets who
flourished after the Jewish captivity, in the second year
of Darius Hystaspes, about 520 years B. C. He was
born in Chaldea, and began his public work of prophesy¬
ing about seventeen years after the return from Babylon.
He, together with Zechariah, excited and encouraged
the Jews to finish the temple, assuring them that Messiah
should appear in the flesh, teach in the courts ofthe new
temple, and render it more glorious than the first. (Ezra
v. i. 2; Haggai i. and ii.; Zech. iv.)
Zechariah.—The prophet Zechariah, who is expressly
called the son ofBarachiah, (Zech. i. 1,) was one ofthe
minor prophets who returned from Babylon, with Zerub-
babel, and began to prophesy about two months after
Haggai. He and Haggai zealously encouraged the
Jews to rebuild the temple and city, the work on which
had been suspended for several years. He wrote the
book which bears his name, and has been called the
chief of the minor prophets.
Iddo.—Iddo, a prophet of Judah, who seems to have
been the historian of his day, and whose record and gen-
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