by Roger W Davis

Created on: November 03, 2008

The greater thing about Bible Study after the intial introduction by opinionated preaching (Romans 3:3-4,7) is that Bible Study allows men to face each other with Bible Facts (Numbers 23:19) to weed out the opinions (Romans 6:16; 15:20-21). Matthew Champ's introduction of "Bible Study: The Kings of babylon in the Book of Daniel" is a perfect example of some wisdom Mr. Champ extracted from the Bible which leads into more wisdom when discussions reveal some erroneus preconcieved notions Mr. Champ included in his piece (1Corinthians 14:29-32,33).

It was not Israel who was taken into captivity by the Babylonians, but Judah.

In 740 bc Ahaz king of Judah hired Tiglathpileser king of Assyria to war against Israel and Syria (2Kings 16:7), using the precious metals in the house of the Lord for the hire (2Kings 16:8). Tiglathpileser heeded Ahaz and carried the people of Damascus Syria away as captives (2Kings 16:9), and Ahaz king of Judah changed the articles of worship in the Temple Solomon had built to worship Assyria's gods instead of the Lord God (2Kings 16:15-18).

Hosea king of Israel feigned to make peace and show homage to the king of Assyria, but in 732 bc Shalmaneser king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hosea king of Israel, and Shalmaneser fulfilled the bidding of Ahaz king of Judah by taking the people Israel out of their northern kingdom of Samaria and scattering them as slaves throughout the nations of Assyria (2Kings 17:4-23). Then the king of Assyria, king of kings, took people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath and Sepharvaim and relocated them in Samaria, which had been the kingdom of Israel (2Kings 17:24).

Thus came the hatred of the Jews against the Gentile Samaritans even unto the coming of Jesus more than 700 years later.

The "ten lost tribes of Israel" (Matthew 10:5,6-7) had been scattered among the Assyrian nations as slaves by the immutable decree of the king of kings, to forever be slaves.

When Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon rose up and conquered Assyria, the "ten lost tribes of Israel" took the opportunity to escape their enslaved name and scatter into all the nations of the world.

That is where Matthew Champ's rendition of "Bible Study: The Kings of babylon in the Book of Daniel" continues, but regarding Nebuchadnezzer's captivity of Judah, not Israel.

And to this day, that is Judah that calls itself Israel but not in truth (Jeremiah 31:9-15; Matthew 2:18; Jeremiah 31:16....).

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