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Lastly came the terrible tragedy of the wholesale murder of the royal princes by
Athaliah, then her reign, and finally her tragic death.
It was not by means such as those which Jehoshaphat employed that good could come
to Judah, the breach be healed between the severed tribes, the kingdom of David
restored, or even peace and righteousness return to Israel. But already God had been
preparing a new instrumentality to accomplish His own purposes. A Voice would be
raised loud enough to make itself heard to the ends of the land; a Hand, strong enough
not only to resist the power of Ahab and Jezebel, but to break that of Baal in the land.
And all this not by worldly might or craftiness, but by the manifestation of the power
of Jehovah as the Living God.^286
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