2 Chronicles 10:15
⇒ Don’t worry about whether God is with you. Concentrate on whether or not you are walking with him!
THE RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY
Jeremiah the prophet identified a period of 70 years during which the Jews would be kept in captivity, away from their land and their heritage (25:11-12, 29:10). The return Jeremiah promised was accomplished on time. But it required a change… (READ MORE)
THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY
The deportation of the people of the Judah by Nebuchadnezzar initiated a seventy-year period of captivity in Babylon. This was a time of judgment for God’s people. Like other disciplines God has chosen to use, the captivity had a purifying… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 25 Fall of Jerusalem and Judah
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it;… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 24 Jerusalem and Judah, Taken Captive by Babylon
Because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, that He finally cast them out from His presence. 2 Kings 24:20 The Babylonians now invade Syria/Palestine. Jehoiakim, though placed on the throne by Pharaoh Neco of… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 23 King Josiah’s Reform Guided by the Scriptures
Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor after him did any arise… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 22 Josiah, the last Good King of Judah (640-609 B.C.)
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, and you tore your clothes and… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 21: Idols Brought into the Lord’s Temple by King Manasseh
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. So I will forsake the… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 20 God responds to the Godly King’s Prayer, Lives 15 More Years
“Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 2 Kings 20:3 Hezekiah’s illness: 2 Kings 20:1-11;… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 19 God Hears the King’s Prayer and Defends Jerusalem
“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it. By the way that he… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 18-20 / 2 Chronicles 29-32. Hezekiah of Judah. (715-686 B.C.)
I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake. 2 Kings 19:34 Hezekiah is co-regent with his father Ahaz when the northern kingdom falls to Assyria. He assumes full control some… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 18 Hezekiah, Godly King of Judah
He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following… (READ MORE)