Day 118 of the podcast, reading 2 Kings 19-22 NET, read along at:
https://netbible.org/bible/2+Kings+19-22/
This is day 118 of our journey.
When King Hezekiah hears the message sent from Sennacherib demanding that the people bow the knee to Assyria, he calls out to God for help. God sends Isaiah with a message of comfort. The prophet foretells that Sennacherib will be called back to Assyria without setting foot in Jerusalem, and that he will be killed in his own land. After this comes to pass, Hezekiah falls ill and is told by Isaiah that he is about to die, but Hezekiah cries out to God once again and God decides to give him another 15 years to live and reign. During those 15 years, he is visited by men from Babylon, a distant nation, and, in pride, he shows them all the treasures of his house and nation. Isaiah prophesied that this nation of Babylon would one day invade Jerusalem and take all those treasures back to Babylon.
After Hezekiah died, his son Manasseh became king. Manasseh did evil in the sight of the Lord. He turned the temple into a place to worship the stars and other gods, he sacrificed his son, and he murdered thousands of innocent people. When he died, his son Amon reigned in his place. Amon followed in the footsteps of his father and was assassinated after only two years.
Amon's son Josiah became king at the age of eight. Josiah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He spent money to repair the temple, and in doing so, the scroll of the law was uncovered. When this scroll was read to Josiah, he realized that Judah was in trouble for the many ways that they had failed to follow the covenant they had made with the Lord. He went into mourning before the Lord, and as a result, God granted that the coming destruction would not happen during his time.
Join me in 2 Kings 19-22 to see the full range of the morality of the kings of Judah.
Key verses:
2 Kings 19:34
I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’”
2 Kings 20:17
‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.
2 Kings 21:12
So this is what the Lord God of Israel has said, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it.
2 Kings 22:11
When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.
All Scriptures are from the NET.
