1. The ironies of Josiah 2. Shaphan's mission involving the temple (3) 3. Hilkiah the high priest's discovery of the law (8) 4. The prophetess Huldah's word to Josiah (15)

1. Manasseh as an idea 2. Manasseh as an example 3. Manasseh as an aggravated example 4. Manasseh as a reason for Jesus

A. The Value of the Word B. The Vitality of the Word C. The Victory of the Word

A. The Portrait of the Sovereign (Psa. 97:1-6) B. The Prostration before the Sovereign (Psa. 97:7-9) C. The Praise for the Sovereign (Psa. 97:10-12)

1. Questions about prayer (20:1-2) 2. Questions about prophecy (20:1-4) 3. Questions about lifespan (20:6a) 4. Questions about why God blesses us (20:6b) 5. Questions about truthfulness (20:8)

1. Assyria's ignorant pride (19:11-133) 2. Assyria's sinful pride (19:1ff) 3. Assyria's blasphemous pride (19:22,25,27-28,35-37)

1. Samaria is seditionist Israel & judges & cursed Israel 2. Samaria resettled with foreign transplants 3. God cursed these people for their impiety/religious corruption 4. Sennacherib improvised as high priest to reset Samaria's religion 5. Yet paganism had no power to make Samaria palatable to God

1. The songs of both David & Asaph 2. The decline of temple worship post David & Solomon 3. Psalm-singing has always had its detractors 4. Hezekiah's reform led to psycho-spiritual gladness 5. Applications

1. God's unique strength/wrath is terrifying to the unbeliever 2. Middle east politics at the end of the 8th century 3. The transition from Ahaz to Hezekiah 4. Sargon to Sennacherib in Assyria 5. Applications to our lives today