Words are free, but how you arrange them and then use them can prove to be very expensive.

Here is high praise: “after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor…before him” (2 Ki 18:5).

The imports found a ready spot for their idols: “the high places which the Samaritans had made” (2 Ki 17:29)!

Israel “secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right” (2 Ki 17:9). Really? Can we act like this?

Was the coming king more influenced by the prayers of his grandfather than the deeds of his father?

The verse, “Thou God seest me” (Gen 16:13, KJV) is the bane of the sinner and the boon of the saint.

Live and let live. Kill and be killed. Is it really that hard to make a choice? For some, apparently so.

Those judged by leprosy—Miriam, Gehazi, Uzziah—all acted against God in selfish unrestraint.

Israel’s 13th ruler, Jeroboam II, reigned longer (41 years) and over more land than any other king of Israel.

Never pick a fight with the devil. Never battle in your own strength. And never yield to his wiles.