Jeroboam did not not die by the sword, and Israel was not led away captive, as predicted. "And the Lord said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel" (2 Kings xiv, 27-29). 6. "Thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost" (Jeremiah xxxvi, 30). This prophecy was not fulfilled. "So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead" (2 Kings xxiv, 6). 7. "And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the King of Babylon seventy years" (Jeremiah xxv, 11). It is now conceded by all critics that the book of Jeremiah, as a whole, was not composed before the Captivity. But even if these words were uttered before the Captivity, they are fatal to the claim of Bible inerrancy; for either the prophecy was not fulfilled, or Bible history is false. According to the historical books of the Bible, the Captivity did not last seventy, but only about fifty years. Referring to this and similar prophecies, Matthew Arnold says: "The great prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah are, critics can now see, not strictly predictions at all" (Literature and Dogma, p, 114). 8. "And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other" (Deut. xxviii, 64). These words were uttered, not as a prophecy, but as a warning or threat. If they obey the Lord's statutes a long list of blessings are promised; if they do not obey them, a hundred evils are threatened, among which is the one quoted. One of the most dreaded and one of the most common calamities in that age was the conquest or dispersion of one tribe or nation by another. In an enumeration of all known evils, it would be strange if this, the one most often threatened, had been omitted. 9. "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah vii, 14).