“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, said the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.” (_Ibid._ lxvi. 22.) Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, about 750 years before the civil era:―― “I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; ...” (Micah ii. 12.) “In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, And I will gather her that is driven away, And her that I have afflicted;” (_Ibid._ iv. 6.) “And I will make her that halted a remnant, And her that was cast far off a mighty nation; And the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from thenceforth even for ever.” (_Ibid._ 7.) “Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, As Thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.” (_Ibid._ vii. 20.) Here we again meet the covenant of Truth and Mercy sworn unto Abraham, that the land Abraham then stood upon should be given to him and to his seed for ever. Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, prophesied in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, about six hundred and thirty years before the ♦civil era:―― “At that time will I bring you in, And at that time will I gather you; For I will make you to be a name and a praise Among all the peoples of the earth, When I turn your captivity before your eyes, Saith the Lord.” (Zephaniah iii. 20.) ♦ “cvil” replaced with “civil” Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin, also prophesied in the days of Josiah, about six hundred and twenty-nine to five hundred and eighty-eight years before the civil era:―― “In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.” (Jeremiah iii. 18.) “In his days Judah shall be saved, And Israel shall dwell safely;...” (_Ibid._ xxiii. 6.) “Thus saith the Lord, Who giveth the sun for a light by day, And the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, Who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar, The Lord of hosts is His name:” (_Ibid._ xxxi. 35.) “If these ordinances depart from before Me, Saith the Lord, Then the seed of Israel also shall cease From being a nation before Me for ever.” (_Ibid._ 36.) “Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord did choose, He hath cast them off? and they contemn My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.” (_Ibid._ xxxiii. 24.)