Where the Cradle Became the Coffin

The fall of Jerusalem possesses a terrible symmetry that Maclaren draws with unflinching precision. The last king of David's line was captured on the very ground where Israel first entered its inheritance—at Jericho, where unarmed men trusting in Elohim watched the walls collapse. The covenant renewed there, where 'the reproach of Israel rolled away,' became the location where that broken covenant was finally avenged and abrogated.…