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• Name	, Zedekiah
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  Birth	610 BC
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  Death	512 BC
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  Father	King Josiah ,   b. 0649 BC/0512 BC, Judah Judahd. 0610 BC/0512 BC
  Mother	Hammutal ,   b. 0634 BC/0512 BC, Libnah, Judah Libnah, Judahd. DECEASED
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  Children	3 sons and 2 daughters
  + 1. JUDAH, Queen Tamar Tephi + 2. Scota   3. Mulek   4. Joash   5. Malchijah
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  THE ROYAL LINE CHART PREPARED FOR THE NEW YORK STAKE GENEALOGICAL BOARD THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY DAINTS CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION - MARCH 1936 Compiled from - "The Kinship of families" by Archibald F. Bennett "Adam to New Chart" by Mrs. Eva Sells Jaeger "Europe's Royal Family Tree" by E. L. Sandberg "Pedigree of Joseph Smith, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Karl Weiss "Present Time and Prophecies" by James H. Anderson Bible, Pearl of Great Price Secular History Abraham 3: "And God saw these souls that they were good and He said I will make them these my rulers." (Notice - These copies are presented to you with some misspelling and omission due to human errors. We offer it as a challenge to anyone to correct them.) ----------------------- Zedekiah, the last king of the Jews was thus the grandson of Jeremiah, the Prophet. Zedekiah, when his kingdom was overthrown, had his sons and daughters lined up before him and saw them all killed and then his eyes were put out. However, two of Zedekiah's daughters escaped death because Jeremiah took them with him and left the country. He also took the stone that was sacred to the descendants of Jacob because he had had a dream or vision of the stairway reaching to heaven when he slept with his head on this stone. The Lord spoke to him and blessed him then. When he arose he put oil on the stone and blessed it saying, "Surely the Lord is in this place." Jeremiah took the stone and Tamar Tephi and her sister and sailed along the Mediteranian Sea and stopped in Spain. There the sister married the King of Spain. Jeremiah and his other great granddaughter, Tamar Tephi, and went on to Ireland and she married the King of Ireland. The stone was kept and the Kings of Ireland, Scotland and now England are crowned on it. It is called the Stone of Scone (and was on display at Westminister Abby in London, England but now, 1999, moved to Scotland.) Letter Evelyn Claypool Bracken to Alice Turley 1983. He "was carried into Babylon. His sons were killed and daughters fled with Jeremiah the Prophet, B.C. 587 to Tahpanhes, Egypt." (II King 24:18-20, 25:1-7). THE DAUGHTERS OF KING ZEDEKIAH - The following interesting sidelights on Irish Pedigree was told by President Anthony W. Ivins: Now I am going to tell you a story; I am not going to undertake to interpret it. You know that Zedekiah was the last king of Judea. Long after the ten tribes had been carried away by Shalmaneser, Nebuchandnezzar came up from Babylon and subdued the Jews and made this reigning King prisoner. It was during Zedekiah's reign that Lehi and his colony left Jerusalem, led away by God the Father, in order that he might preserve that people from that which he knew was to come. Zedekiah had a number of sons. The Bible tells us that they were all put to death before their Father, that his eyes were put out, and that he was carried down into Babylon, where he lived in darkness the remainder of his days. One of those sons escaped the Babylonians and brought a small colony to this continent. It was God that brought them here, not Mulek. He did it, of course, but the Lord directed him. (This story as given here is mixed up.) Zedekiah, at the time, had two daughters. The prophet Jeremiah was the great-grandfather of these two girls. His granddaughter (should be daughter, Hammutal) was the wife of Zedekiah, the King (should be Josiah, the King). These two beautiful girls were left, and in order that they might be protected against the Babylonians, they were placed in the care of Jeremiah the prophet. He became their guardian, the custodian of their welfare. Because of his fear that they might fall into the hands of the Babylonians, which would have been an abomination to an Israelitish maiden, Jeremiah took them down to Egypt, it is said, to the same place where Joseph and Mary went with Christ, our Lord, at the time of the execution of the decree of Herod by which the children of Bethlethem were put to death. They abode there, at a place called Taphanes, the ruins of which are now well known. The natives refer to it to this day as the palace of the Jew's daughter,or the House of the Old Prophet. (See Jeremiah 41: 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 43:1-7). After the conquest of Palestine, the Babylonian armies invaded Egypt and it became evident that they would be victorious over the Egyptians. Just at this time we lose sight of Jeremiah and these two girls, so far as the Bible is concerned. At that time the ships of Tyre were sailing the Mediterranean, the tribe of Dan, one of the sons of Jacob, was the seafaring nation. Their ships brought in from the British Isles the tin used to make the brass that went into the Temple of Solomon. After the fall of Jerusalem a ship landed upon the coast of Spain, from which an old man and his secretary and two young women disembarked. They remained for a short period in that country. Here one of the girls married into the reigning house of Spain, but the old man who is referred to in Ireland as Oilamh Fodhla (the old Prophet) in their traditions and the songs which they still sing of him, passed across the channel and landed on the coast of Ireland, taking with him the elder of the two girls whose name was Tamar Tephi, which translated from Hebrew into English means the Beautiful Palm, or the Beautiful Wanderer. Eochaidh was then reigning King of Ireland. (There were ten kings at that time on this little island). (When there was an invasion from the outside they all joined together and had one king. He was acknowledged their leader. When there was no danger from the outside, they fought against each other.) Eochaidh solicited the hand of Tamar Tephi in marriage, to which the old prophet consented, provided the King would accept the religion which he brought. He brought with him a small chest strongly bound, which was very jealously guarded and the contents of which were unknown. The King of Ireland agreed to this, the marriage ceremony was performed, and the religion of Oilamh Fodhla, which corresponded almost exactly to the service to God under the law of Moses, was established in Ireland. After a time this king went over and effected the conquest of the southern part of Scotland, (We show his brother-in-law became the first King of Scotland and named the country Scotland because he married Scota.) Both he and his queen finally died and were buried at Tara in Ireland. A great monument stands there today over their graves. Why am I telling you this story? It is because modern genealogists now at work upon the collection and definite establishment of genealogical records, trace both the Tudor and Stuart lines from kings, from the past King George of England, directly back to the girl, Tamar Tephi. So it would seem that, unknown to men at the time, the Lord preserved that lineage. It exists today, and I do not believe that it will ever cease to exist until the Israelitish people are redeemed and the covenant entered into between Abraham and the Lord realized. It doesn't matter to us whether that story is true or not, but it is true according to the very best information that it is possible to obtain upon the subject. We know definitely and well that the lineage of both of these kingly lines, the Tudors and the Stuarts of Scotland, trace back to this girl. So the Lord has kept the Royal Blood, the House of Israel, until today; and when the final determination of it all is made, we will find out that He has been watching over those people, that he has been directing them, that He has been helping them, that it is He and not their numerical strength that has made Great Britain, Scandinavia and Germany the dominant powers of the world. Take them out today and what would be left. Put them together in union and they would lead the world, as they do financially, in civilization, in development, in education, in modern thought. (Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Vol. 23, pp 6-8. Also found in Children of the Covenant, lesson book for second year LDS Junior Genealogical classes 1927 p. 76.) Targh, Tarah, or Tara, a parish, in the barony of Skreen, County of Meath, and province of Leinster, 3-1/2 miles (N. by W.) from Dunshaughlin; contains 688 inhabitants. Taragh Hill, which was also named Teagh-more, signifying "the Great House," and frequently called also Temora, derived that appellation from its having been, to the end of the sixth century, the place where was assembled the convocation of the states general of Ireland, held here every three years for the deliberation and decision of civil and ecclesiastical matters, and also for the election and investiture with supreme authority of one chief, who was appointed sovereign of all Ireland. This triennial convocation of the provincial kings, priests, and bards is said to have been originally instituted by the great Ollamh Fodhla, one of the ancient monarchs, celebrated as a great legislator, in the traditonal records of the kingdom. Tuathal, a Milesian prince, is said to have convoked an assembly here after his victory over the Firbolgs, when he was recognised by the states as supreme monarch. During the ceremony of inauguration, the monarchs were placed upon the Lisfail, or "stone of destiny," which was afterwards removed to Scotland and used for a similar purpose, whence it was taken by Edward I as a trophy of his victory over that people, and placed in Westminster Abbey, where it was preserved until 1996. The hill of Taragh was also selected by St. Patrick as a convenient spot from which to promulgate the doctrines of Christianity, which rapidly extended to every part of Ireland. In 980 the Danes sustained a single defeat on this hill, which contributed materially to their final expulsion from the country. THE ROYAL LINE CHART PREPARED FOR THE NEW YORK STAKE GENEALOGICAL BOARD THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY DAINTS CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION - MARCH 1936 Compiled from - "The Kinship of families" by Archibald F. Bennett "Adam to New Chart" by Mrs. Eva Sells Jaeger "Europe's Royal Family Tree" by E. L. Sandberg "Pedigree of Joseph Smith, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Karl Weiss "Present Time and Prophecies" by James H. Anderson Bible, Pearl of Great Price Secular History Abraham 3: "And God saw these souls that they were good and He said I will make them these my rulers." (Notice - These copies are presented to you with some misspelling and omission due to human errors. We offer it as a challenge to anyone to correct them.) ----------------------- Zedekiah, the last king of the Jews was thus the grandson of Jeremiah, the Prophet. Zedekiah, when his kingdom was overthrown, had his sons and daughters lined up before him and saw them all killed and then his eyes were put out. However, two of Zedekiah's daughters escaped death because Jeremiah took them with him and left the country. He also took the stone that was sacred to the descendants of Jacob because he had had a dream or vision of the stairway reaching to heaven when he slept with his head on this stone. The Lord spoke to him and blessed him then. When he arose he put oil on the stone and blessed it saying, "Surely the Lord is in this place." Jeremiah took the stone and Tamar Tephi and her sister and sailed along the Mediteranian Sea and stopped in Spain. There the sister married the King of Spain. Jeremiah and his other great granddaughter, Tamar Tephi, and went on to Ireland and she married the King of Ireland. The stone was kept and the Kings of Ireland, Scotland and now England are crowned on it. It is called the Stone of Scone (and was on display at Westminister Abby in London, England but now, 1999, moved to Scotland.) Letter Evelyn Claypool Bracken to Alice Turley 1983. He "was carried into Babylon. His sons were killed and daughters fled with Jeremiah the Prophet, B.C. 587 to Tahpanhes, Egypt." (II King 24:18-20, 25:1-7). THE DAUGHTERS OF KING ZEDEKIAH - The following interesting sidelights on Irish Pedigree was told by President Anthony W. Ivins: Now I am going to tell you a story; I am not going to undertake to interpret it. You know that Zedekiah was the last king of Judea. Long after the ten tribes had been carried away by Shalmaneser, Nebuchandnezzar came up from Babylon and subdued the Jews and made this reigning King prisoner. It was during Zedekiah's reign that Lehi and his colony left Jerusalem, led away by God the Father, in order that he might preserve that people from that which he knew was to come. Zedekiah had a number of sons. The Bible tells us that they were all put to death before their Father, that his eyes were put out, and that he was carried down into Babylon, where he lived in darkness the remainder of his days. One of those sons escaped the Babylonians and brought a small colony to this continent. It was God that brought them here, not Mulek. He did it, of course, but the Lord directed him. (This story as given here seems to be mixed up??) Zedekiah, at the time, had two daughters. The prophet Jeremiah was the great-grandfather of these two girls. His granddaughter (should be daughter, Hammutal) was the wife of Zedekiah, the King (should be Josiah, the King). These two beautiful girls were left, and in order that they might be protected against the Babylonians, they were placed in the care of Jeremiah the prophet. He became their guardian, the custodian of their welfare. Because of his fear that they might fall into the hands of the Babylonians, which would have been an abomination to an Israelitish maiden, Jeremiah took them down to Egypt, it is said, to the same place where Joseph and Mary went with Christ, our Lord, at the time of the execution of the decree of Herod by which the children of Bethlethem were put to death. They abode there, at a place called Taphanes, the ruins of which are now well known. The natives refer to it to this day as the palace of the Jew's daughter,or the House of the Old Prophet. (See Jeremiah 41: 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 43:1-7). After the conquest of Palestine, the Babylonian armies invaded Egypt and it became evident that they would be victorious over the Egyptians. Just at this time we lose sight of Jeremiah and these two girls, so far as the Bible is concerned. At that time the ships of Tyre were sailing the Mediterranean, the tribe of Dan, one of the sons of Jacob, was the seafaring nation. Their ships brought in from the British Isles the tin used to make the brass that went into the Temple of Solomon. After the fall of Jerusalem a ship landed upon the coast of Spain, from which an old man and his secretary and two young women disembarked. They remained for a short period in that country. Here one of the girls married into the reigning house of Spain, but the old man who is referred to in Ireland as Oilamh Fodhla (the old Prophet) in their traditions and the songs which they still sing of him, passed across the channel and landed on the coast of Ireland, taking with him the elder of the two girls whose name was Tamar Tephi, which translated from Hebrew into English means the Beautiful Palm, or the Beautiful Wanderer. Eochaidh was then reigning King of Ireland. (There were ten kings at that time on this little island). (When there was an invasion from the outside they all joined together and had one king. He was acknowledged their leader. When there was no danger from the outside, they fought against each other.) Eochaidh solicited the hand of Tamar Tephi in marriage, to which the old prophet consented, provided the King would accept the religion which he brought. He brought with him a small chest strongly bound, which was very jealously guarded and the contents of which were unknown. The King of Ireland agreed to this, the marriage ceremony was performed, and the religion of Oilamh Fodhla, which corresponded almost exactly to the service to God under the law of Moses, was established in Ireland. After a time this king went over and effected the conquest of the southern part of Scotland, (We show his brother-in-law became the first King of Scotland and named the country Scotland because he married Scota.) Both he and his queen finally died and were buried at Tara in Ireland. A great monument stands there today over their graves. Why am I telling you this story? It is because modern genealogists now at work upon the collection and definite establishment of genealogical records, trace both the Tudor and Stuart lines from kings, from the past King George of England, directly back to the girl, Tamar Tephi. So it would seem that, unknown to men at the time, the Lord preserved that lineage. It exists today, and I do not believe that it will ever cease to exist until the Israelitish people are redeemed and the covenant entered into between Abraham and the Lord realized. It doesn't matter to us whether that story is true or not, but it is true according to the very best information that it is possible to obtain upon the subject. We know definitely and well that the lineage of both of these kingly lines, the Tudors and the Stuarts of Scotland, trace back to this girl. So the Lord has kept the Royal Blood, the House of Israel, until today; and when the final determination of it all is made, we will find out that He has been watching over those people, that he has been directing them, that He has been helping them, that it is He and not their numerical strength that has made Great Britain, Scandinavia and Germany the dominant powers of the world. Take them out today and what would be left. Put them together in union and they would lead the world, as they do financially, in civilization, in development, in education, in modern thought. (Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Vol. 23, pp 6-8. Also found in Children of the Covenant, lesson book for second year LDS Junior Genealogical classes 1927 p. 76.) ------------------------ Targh, Tarah, or Tara, a parish, in the barony of Skreen, County of Meath, and province of Leinster, 3-1/2 miles (N. by W.) from Dunshaughlin; contains 688 inhabitants. Taragh Hill, which was also named Teagh-more, signifying "the Great House," and frequently called also Temora, derived that appellation from its having been, to the end of the sixth century, the place where was assembled the convocation of the states general of Ireland, held here every three years for the deliberation and decision of civil and ecclesiastical matters, and also for the election and investiture with supreme authority of one chief, who was appointed sovereign of all Ireland. This triennial convocation of the provincial kings, priests, and bards is said to have been originally instituted by the great Ollamh Fodhla, one of the ancient monarchs, celebrated as a great legislator, in the traditonal records of the kingdom. Tuathal, a Milesian prince, is said to have convoked an assembly here after his victory over the Firbolgs, when he was recognised by the states as supreme monarch. During the ceremony of inauguration, the monarchs were placed upon the Lisfail, or "stone of destiny," which was afterwards removed to Scotland and used for a similar purpose, whence it was taken by Edward I as a trophy of his victory over that people, and placed in Westminster Abbey, where it was preserved until 1996. The hill of Taragh was also selected by St. Patrick as a convenient spot from which to promulgate the doctrines of Christianity, which rapidly extended to every part of Ireland. In 980 the Danes sustained a single defeat on this hill, which contributed materially to their final expulsion from the country. Ref: Archaeologia, Vol. III, by Sir Joseph Ayloffe and "The Coronation Chair" by W. Percival-Prescott in London, Ministry of Works, 1957 - The Coronation Chair was made for Edward I to enclose the famous Stone of Scone, which he seized in 1296 and brought from Scotland to the Abbey, where he placed it under the Abbot's care. The Scots made repeated and vain efforts to induce Edward to give it back. Legends abound concerning this mysterious object and tradition identifies this stone with the one upon which Jacob rested his head at Bethel -- 'And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.' (Genesis 28:18). Jacob's sons carried it to Egypt and from thence it passed to Spain with King Gathelus, son of Cecrops, the builder of Athens. About 700 BC it appears in Ireland, whither it was carried by the Spanish King's son Simon Brech, on his invasion of that island. There it was placed upon the sacred Hill of Tara, and called 'Lia-Fail,' the 'fatal' stone, or 'stone of destiny,' for when the Irish kings were seated upon it at Coronations the stone groaned aloud if the claimant was of royal race but remained silent if he was a pretender. Fergus Mor MacEirc (d. 501?), the founder of the Scottish monarchy, and one of the Blood Royal of Ireland, received it in Scotland, and Kenneth MacAlpin (d. 860) finally deposited it in the Monastery of Scone (846). Setting aside the earlier myths it is certain that it had been for centuries an object of veneration to the Scots, who fancied that 'while it remained in the country, the State would be unshaken.' Upon this stone their kings, down to John Balliol, were crowned, and it is said that the following distich had been engraved upon it by Kenneth: Ni fallat fatum, Scoti, quocunque locatum Invenient lapidem, regnare tenentur ibidem. (If Fates go right, where'er this stone is found... monarchs of that realm be crowned.) The prophecy was fulfilled at the accession of James VI of Scotland and I of England. Edward had a magnificent oaken chair made to contain it, painted by Master Walter and decorated with patterns of birds, foliage, and animals on a gilt ground, and this is the chair which remains. The figure of a king, the Confessor or Edward I, his feet resting on a lion, was painted on the back. The gilt lions below were added later. At Coronations this chair and stone are moved into the sanctuary, and since 1308 on them have been crowned all the sovereigns of England with three exceptions (Edward V, Edward VIII and, seemingly, Mary II). A portion of the mosaic pavement, by Peter the Roman, which covered the whole Chapel can be seen round the chair. The only State occasion upon which the chair has been taken out of the Abbey was when Oliver Cromwell was installed upon it as Lord Protector in Westminster Hall. In Addison's time the chair was unguarded by railings, but the guides exacted a forfeit from every person who sat down on it. The eighteenth century contempt for things Gothic is illustrated by the number of names and initials carved on the chair and by Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, who 'saw no curiosity either in the oak chair or the stone.' Close by are the sword and shield of Edward III, which were, it is said,carried before the King in France. The sword is seven feet long and weighs eighteen pounds; it was perhaps, made at Solingen or Passau in Germany. Ref: God's Covenant Race p 210- At the capture of the city, King Zedekiah and part of his family were seized. These were carried northward to Riblah, where the sons of Zedekiah who had been taken were put to death in the presence of their father, whose eyes were put out, and he was carried prisoner to Babylon. All the "seed royal," so far as then known by the people there, except the two princesses, was put to death by the Babylonians. With its king a captive--soon to die--its nobility exterminated, its proud capital a heap of smouldering ruins, and its territory overrun by a savage and relentless enemy, Judah drank the cup of misery and degraduation to the very dregs. All her former pride, pomp, and power were laid in the dust at the feet of a ruthless conqueror, and she sank into the condition of a conquered province, whose fortunes were henceforth to depend, for more than 2500 years, upon the will and whims of God made to the forefathers of Isreal and Judah had come to nothing. That is where many learned professors of today leave the history, but it is not all. Bible prophecies, so often ignored, preview a condition which presents itself today as an established fact of history. Once the poor of the people were left in the land of Judah (Jer. 39:10). "And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah...even over them he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler" (2 Kings 25:22). But "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform." Gedaliah was the grandson of Shaphan, the trusty secretary of state of good King Josiah, and was a man of high noble character. There still was left in the land of Judah, in company with Jeremiah, the Princess Royal of the House of Judah, eldest daughter of King Zedekiah, now do facto Queen ofJudah after the slaughters of her brother (2 Kings 25:7), and a younger sister. The Stone of Destiny from Lebanon County Pennsylvania Historical Society - (Continued)* - While the sons of Zedekiah were all slain, his daughters escaped. Mohammedan authors say they fled into a part of the Temple, where they were secreted. When all danger had passed, in company with the prophet and Baruch they fled into Egypt, taking with them a saced stone which was removed from its place in the Temple. Until 1996 it rested in Westminster Abbey, London. For ages it has been the coronation seat of the King of Ireland, Scotland and Great Britain. Why so sacred? Because on it Jacob rested his head outside the city of Luz, when its gates had been closed for the night, and it was then he saw the angels ascending and descending the ladder at the top of which stood God Himself. (continued after "note insert" ** see below) --------- [Note Insert: From Spiritual Living Lesson 4 Gospel Covenants "When Jacob traveled from Beersheba toward Haran, he had a dream in which he saw himself on the earth at the foot of a ladder that reached to heaven where the Lord stood above it. He beheld angels ascending and descending thereon, and Jacob realized that the covenants he made with the Lord there were the rungs on the ladder that he himself would have to climb in order to obtain the promised blessings-- blessings that would entitle him to enter heaven and associate with the Lord." Marion G. Romney, "Temples--The Gates to heaven," Ensign Mar. 1971, p. 16 "We become one of God's covenant people when we become members of his Church...The first gospel covenant we make is the covenant of baptism-- the gate of the pathway to eternal life...take the sacrament..worthy men receive the priesthood...the covenants we make in the temple...covenants couples make when they are sealed for time and eternity..."] -------------------- ** (Continued from the paragraph ending with "...God Himself." Not only was it Jacob's Pillow, a resting place for the patriarch's head, not only has it been a coronation stone for kings, but it is a Stone of Destiny because a Prophetic Rune has attached itself to it for some 2400 years to this effect: "Cioniodh Scruit Taor an fine, Man has breag an Fais dine, Mar a oh fruignid an Lia Fail, Dlighid faitheas do grabhail." This distich, which is in the Irish Celtic Dialect, has been rendered by Sir Walter Scott, thus: "Unless the Fates are faithless grown, And Prophet's voice be vain, Where'er is found this Sacred Stone, The Wanderer's Race shall reign." The understood meaning of which is that, so long as one of the Race, duly confirmed to Monarchial Right on that Stone, shall have possession of The Stone, that such combination will secure to that Race the right, and assure the possession of Monarchy; in fact, that it will command Destiny. So it is that the word "Phail" has become modern Irish for the word "Fate." The Stone has never received its proper meaning in Irish. It was not called the "Stone Wonderful," as it should have been. It was called the "Stone Destiny." They indicated the effect, not knowing aught of the cause. It is called Lia Fail because that is the name by which it was always known in Ireland in Pagan times, from when it first arrived in the country. "Lia," or "Leag" (Lee-ahch), signifying "a stone" in Irish, and "Fail" being, as above indicated, understood to mean "destiny." But, although the word "Lia" is Irish, the word 'Phail" is Hebrew, and is, in itself, a Scriptural word, and of the highest, deepest, theological import. It signifies "wonderful," and is that word which is always used in Holy Writ to convey to the mind of man the most inscrutable character of act and thought and power of the Godhead. Not of meteoric origin, as many have maintained, it is a block of red sandstone, containing an unusual proportion of iron. It was once carved, gilded and painted, but these decorations have entirely disappeared. For 2450 years in succession kings have been crowned upon it. When so used in modern times, it has been covered with a cloth of gold. According to the legend, the stone used to give forth musical sounds when a rightful monarch sat on it, and remained silent under a usurper. Taking ship in Egypt, our fugitives started for "the isles of the sea" prophesied by Isaiah, but it becoming disabled, were forced to take refuge in a port of Spain. The king of the country, hearing that it was a ship of "goodly store," seized the stone; whereupon, when the vessel was properly caulked, two men, presumably Jeremiah and Baruch, regained the stone, carried it aboard and escaped, finally reaching that "land of traffic," where it was to be "set in a city of merchants." That land was Ireland, and that city the "Royal City" of Tara. (Continued in RIN #4731) Bible -- 2 Ch 36:11-14 2 Ki 24:17-25:7 REF: God's Covenant Race p 210- At the capture of the city, King Zedekiah and part of his family were seized. These were carried northward to Riblah, where the sons of Zedekiah who had been taken were put to death in the presence of their father, whose eyes were put out, and he was carried prisoner to Babylon. All the "seed royal," so far as then known by the people there, except the two princesses, was put to death by the Babylonians. With its king a captive--soon to die--its nobility exterminated, its proud capital a heap of smouldering ruins, and its territory overrun by a savage and relentless enemy, Judah drank the cup of misery and degraduation to the very dregs. All her former pride, pomp, and power were laid in the dust at the feet of a ruthless conqueror, and she sank into the condition of a conquered province, whose fortunes were henceforth to depend, for more than 2500 years, upon the will and whims of God made to the forefathers of Isreal and Judah had come to nothing. That is where many learned professors of today leave the history, but it is not all. Bible prophecies, so often ignored, preview a condition which presents itself today as an established fact of history. Once the poor of the people were left in the land of Judah (Jer. 39:10). "And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah...even over them he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler" (2 Kings 25:22). But "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform." Gedaliah was the grandson of Shaphan, the trusty secretary of state of good King Josiah, and was a man of high noble character. There still was left in the land of Judah, in company with Jeremiah, the Princess Royal of the House of Judah, eldest daughter of King Zedekiah, now do facto Queen ofJudah after the slaughters of her brother (2 Kings 25:7), and a younger sister. The Stone of Destiny from Lebanon County Pennsylvania Historical Society - (Continued)* - While the sons of Zedekiah were all slain, his daughters escaped. Mohammedan authors say they fled into a part of the Temple, where they were secreted. When all danger had passed, in company with the prophet and Baruch they fled into Egypt, taking with them a saced stone which was removed from its place in the Temple. Until 1996 it rested in Westminster Abbey, London. For ages it has been the coronation seat of the King of Ireland, Scotland and Great Britain. Why so sacred? Because on it Jacob rested his head outside the city of Luz, when its gates had been closed for the night, and it was then he saw the angels ascending and descending the ladder at the top of which stood God Himself. (continued after "note insert" ** see below) --------- [Note Insert: From Spiritual Living Lesson 4 Gospel Covenants "When Jacob traveled from Beersheba toward Haran, he had a dream in which he saw himself on the earth at the foot of a ladder that reached to heaven where the Lord stood above it. He beheld angels ascending and descending thereon, and Jacob realized that the covenants he made with the Lord there were the rungs on the ladder that he himself would have to climb in order to obtain the promised blessings-- blessings that would entitle him to enter heaven and associate with the Lord." Marion G. Romney, "Temples--The Gates to heaven," Ensign Mar. 1971, p. 16 "We become one of God's covenant people when we become members of his Church...The first gospel covenant we make is the covenant of baptism-- the gate of the pathway to eternal life...take the sacrament..worthy men receive the priesthood...the covenants we make in the temple...covenants couples make when they are sealed for time and eternity..."] -------------------- ** (Continued from the paragraph ending with "...God Himself." Not only was it Jacob's Pillow, a resting place for the patriarch's head, not only has it been a coronation stone for kings, but it is a Stone of Destiny because a Prophetic Rune has attached itself to it for some 2400 years to this effect: "Cioniodh Scruit Taor an fine, Man has breag an Fais dine, Mar a oh fruignid an Lia Fail, Dlighid faitheas do grabhail." This distich, which is in the Irish Celtic Dialect, has been rendered by Sir Walter Scott, thus: "Unless the Fates are faithless grown, And Prophet's voice be vain, Where'er is found this Sacred Stone, The Wanderer's Race shall reign." The understood meaning of which is that, so long as one of the Race, duly confirmed to Monarchial Right on that Stone, shall have possession of The Stone, that such combination will secure to that Race the right, and assure the possession of Monarchy; in fact, that it will command Destiny. So it is that the word "Phail" has become modern Irish for the word "Fate." The Stone has never received its proper meaning in Irish. It was not called the "Stone Wonderful," as it should have been. It was called the "Stone Destiny." They indicated the effect, not knowing aught of the cause. It is called Lia Fail because that is the name by which it was always known in Ireland in Pagan times, from when it first arrived in the country. "Lia," or "Leag" (Lee-ahch), signifying "a stone" in Irish, and "Fail" being, as above indicated, understood to mean "destiny." But, although the word "Lia" is Irish, the word 'Phail" is Hebrew, and is, in itself, a Scriptural word, and of the highest, deepest, theological import. It signifies "wonderful," and is that word which is always used in Holy Writ to convey to the mind of man the most inscrutable character of act and thought and power of the Godhead. Not of meteoric origin, as many have maintained, it is a block of red sandstone, containing an unusual proportion of iron. It was once carved, gilded and painted, but these decorations have entirely disappeared. For 2450 years in succession kings have been crowned upon it. When so used in modern times, it has been covered with a cloth of gold. According to the legend, the stone used to give forth musical sounds when a rightful monarch sat on it, and remained silent under a usurper. Taking ship in Egypt, our fugitives started for "the isles of the sea" prophesied by Isaiah, but it becoming disabled, were forced to take refuge in a port of Spain. The king of the country, hearing that it was a ship of "goodly store," seized the stone; whereupon, when the vessel was properly caulked, two men, presumably Jeremiah and Baruch, regained the stone, carried it aboard and escaped, finally reaching that "land of traffic," where it was to be "set in a city of merchants." That land was Ireland, and that city the "Royal City" of Tara. (Continued in RIN #4731) Bible -- 2 Ch 36:11-14 2 Ki 24:17-25:7 BIRTH: Also shown as Born 610 BC BIRTH: Also shown as Born 610 BC BIRTH: Also shown as Born 610 B.C