2 ND KINGS Week 20, Chapters 14 and 15 As we ended our lesson last week in 2 nd Kings 14 yet another Hebrew king looted the Holy Temple in Jerusalem for the sake of its valuable silver and gold articles. This time it was Joash, King of Israel, who not only took the Temple’s […]

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2 ND KINGS Week 19, chapter 14 We had just opened the divine door of Holy Scripture into 2 nd Kings 14 last week when we ran out of time, so we’ll continue with that this week, and we’ll even have to take some time next week to finish this action-packed and information laden chapter. […]

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2 ND KINGS Week 18, Chapters 13 and 14 In 2 nd Kings 13, the subject is the northern kingdom of Israel and their accelerating decline towards God’s judgment upon them. As the name of the Bible book implies, the story is told in the context of the succession of Kings of Israel who grew […]

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2 ND KINGS Week 17, chapter 13 It’s time to step back again and get the bigger picture of what is happening in the Book of 2 nd Kings. We need to do that because in the next few chapters some seismic shifts in Israel’s political, social and religious fabric will occur and so we […]

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2 ND KINGS Week 16, chapter 12 We’ll study 2 nd Kings 12 this week, which continues the story of Joash, the latest King of Judah who was publically coronated at the tender age of only 7 years. Our previous lesson in chapter 11 told us why it was that this extraordinary action took place, […]

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2 ND KINGS Week 15, chapter 11 As we continue our study of 2 nd Kings 11 today, we’re going to paint with a few very broad brush stokes and also some very fine detail. And we begin by finding that Athaliah, the equally wicked daughter of the recently (and violently) killed Queen Jezebel, realized […]

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2 ND KINGS Week 14, chapters 10 and 11 The Book of 2 nd Kings spends quite a lot of time recording the deeds of Yehu (Jehu), and then the 3 kings who come after him that forms his 4 generation dynasty. And the reason for this is that Jehu’s reign (and, I think, his […]

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2 ND KINGS Week 13, Chapters 9 and 10 It’s about 840 B.C. Yehu has just been anointed King of Israel by an anonymous guild prophet who was sent under the authority of Elisha to the Trans-Jordanian fortress city of Ramot- Gilead for just that purpose. This anointing of Jehu was essentially done by proxy. […]

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2 nd KINGS Week 12, chapter 9 As a boulder gathers speed as it rolls down a steep hillside, so we see Israel and Judah tumbling out of control down their own slippery slope towards God’s wrath by means of their idolatry and apostasy. And just as the physics of inertia dictate that momentum is […]

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2 ND KINGS Week 11, Chapter 8 continued We continue today in 2 nd Kings Chapter 8 and the ongoing saga of Israel’s history during an era when Elijah and Elisha were raised up by God to bring His justice to the kingdoms of Ephraim/Israel and Judah. Elijah operated almost exclusively in the northern kingdom; […]

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