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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The OT records many prayers offered to God by his people. A survey of them helps us to discern a number of basic prayer principles which infuse this most intimate of experiences with God. Although rituals are often associated with… (READ MORE)
“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)
16 Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. 17 Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the… (READ MORE)
“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)
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)
Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 2 Kings 17:14 2 Kings 17. Hoshea, and Israel’s Exile (732 – 723 B.C.) When Tiglath-pileser… (READ MORE)
2 Kings 16 / 2 Chronicles 28. Ahaz of Judah (735-715 B.C.) When Ahaz becomes sole ruler on the death of his godly father, he turns his back on the Lord. He follows the most detestable of the pagan religious… (READ MORE)