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July 8th
The bible reading today is in 2 Kings 15 and 2 Chronicles 26.
In these mirror chapters today, the text is filled with the evil of 5 kings of Israel, including murders, assassinations, and rampant idolatry from the throneroom throughout the 10 tribes.
Over and over the following phrase is found in the text describing these 5 kings...” he did not depart from the sins of Jereboam.”
So what were the sins of Jereboam? He had two golden calves made. Set one in Bethel and the other in Dan. Then he ordered the worship of those idols throughout Israel.
The 5 Israeli kings in our text today continued to order the people to worship the golden calves as their God. Wow...kings not only guilty of idol worship themselves but leading their people to do the same. That’s evil indeed.
One more time our texts in Kings and Chronicles boldly show what Samuel prophesied about Israel wanting a king over them like other nations. They traded God’s righteous rule for men’s sinful selfish and satanic rule. And it would not end well for them.
Before I wrap up this podcast there are a couple of lessons to be learned in the 16-year reign of young Jotham in Judah. “In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. “And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord”, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.”
