There was a town in Sicily that was being bullied by its neighbors and asked Athens for help. And they promised that they had tons of gold to pay the Athenians for their trouble. But when the Athenian navy arrived, guess what. There was no gold. And so the most powerful navy that ...
But if these were true, what was he to think of the words of the other prophets, who, speaking in the name of the Lord, had promised peace through the reign of Josiah, and even under Jehoiakim? Had not Jehovah apparently sanctioned those prophets also? and, if so, had He not ...
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened. (Notice that all during this judgment-time, God was still 'concerned' for Ninevah (4.10): But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty...