2 Kings
2 Kings Chapter 25 – Zedekiah’s Faithlessness and the Fall of Judah
I find Zedekiah’s portrayal in the Bible to be very human, and so I’d like for us to focus on him today as we come to the end of a long journey through the Kings. Although Zedekiah…
2 Kings Chapter 24
As we plummet to the final days of the Southern Kingdom of Judah, we sadly still read the same words over and over again … “he did evil in the sight of the Lord”. The last king of…
2 Kings Chapter 23 – The Religious and Faith’s Reformation of king Josiah
King Josiah’s reformation is one of the most important events in the southern kingdom of Judah’s history. From Second Chronicles chapter 34 verse 3 that “in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of…
2 Kings Chapter 22
2 Kgs 22:19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse,…
2 Kings Chapter 21
1. OUTLINE OF CONTENTS a. Manasseh succeeded his father Hezekiah to be king of Judah. He reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of the LORD according to the abominations of…
2 Kings Chapter 20
1. OUTLINE OF CONTENTS a. Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet said to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’” (vs. 1) b.…
2 Kings Chapter 19
1. OUTLINE OF CONTENTS a. After Hezekiah heard from Eliakim who was over his household and Shebna the scribe and Joab the son of Asaph the recorder, the words which Rabshakeh the Assyrian spoke, he tore his…
2 Kings Chapter 18
Finally! Finally! Finally! If you have been following along the Bible reading schedule, you must have grown increasingly frustrated that every good king of Judah failed in removing the high places. Now, in King Hezekiah, we finally…
2 Kings Chapter 17 – Don’t Misunderstand God’s Heart
2 Kings 17 truly was the end for the Israelites. Not only did God give up on them, He abandoned them to Assyria. For three years, Assyria besieged Samaria. Then, the inevitable: “In the ninth year of…
2 Kings Chapter 16 – Would we walk in the way of our LORD?
If we set out on a journey, from the starting point to our destination, there are likely more than one path we can take. Based on the existing infrastructure, prevailing conditions and constraints we face e.g. time,…