and he led the flock to the
back side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to
Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of
fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and behold, the
bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses
said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush
is not burned. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see,
God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses,
Moses. And he said, Here am I. And He said Draw not nigh hither;
put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy
father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon
God."

Q. What followed? A. We again traveled, while the following passage
was read:

2 Chron xxxvi. 11-20. "Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when
he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he
did THAT WHICH WAS evil in the sight of the Lord, his God, AND
humbled not himself before Jeremiah, the prophet, SPEAKING from
the mouth of the Lord. And he also rebelled against King
Nebuchadnezzar, and he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart
from turning unto the Lord God of Israel. Moreover, all the chiefs
of the priests and the people transgressed very much after all the
abominations of the heathen: and polluted the house of the Lord
which He had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of their
fathers sent to them by His messengers, rising up betimes and
sending; because He had compassion on His people, and on His
dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, and
despised His words, and misused His prophets, until the wrath of
the Lord arose against His people, till THERE WAS no remedy.
Therefore he brought upon him the King of the Chaldees, who slew
their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary,
and had no compassion on young men or maidens, old men, or him
that stooped for age; he gave them all unto his hand. And all the
vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of
the house of the Lord, and treasures of the king, and of his
princes; all THESE he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house
of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the
palaces thereof with fire, and d