The Covenant Is Sealed

The time in history was about one year before the city of Jerusalem was going to be destroyed by the nation of Babylon. Jerusalem was under siege for one and a half years before it was destroyed. This was a terrible disaster for Judah and for Jerusalem. The children of Israel had been a nation for about 900 years. In 1447 BC they walked out of Egypt, where they had been slaves for hundreds of years. They conquered most of the land of Canaan and they established a kingdom under David and Solomon, which was a picture of the Kingdom of God. After Solomon the kingdom was split into a northern kingdom, called Israel, and a southern kingdom, called Judah. In 709 BC the northern kingdom of Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians, and in 587 BC the southern kingdom of Judah was destroyed by the Babylonians. That was 860 years after they walked out of Egypt.