Epv Kings of Israel 2
Epv Kings of Israel 2
Epv Kings of Israel 2
Vedder
The source of these meditations is THE LORD IS NEAR calendar 2005. They have
been used with permission from the author and the publishers. The calendar is available
through Believers Bookshelf, both Canada and USA. In the will of the Lord these and
similar meditations on the other kings of Israel and the kings of Judah will be available
as a book.
2 The Kings of Israel
CONTENTS
JEROBOAM (1)
JEROBOAM (2)
and ordained a feast like the feast that was in Judah. Beware
of changing, even of modifying the instructions God has given
us in His Word!
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JEROBOAM (3)
JEROBOAM (4)
from before the evil (Isa. 57:1). Yet how heavy his mothers
burden must have been! For as soon as her feet entered the
city her son died. God ever keeps His Word.
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NADAB
BAASHA
harshly with them for their sins. How solemn when we then go
ahead and repeat the same sins ourselves! This is no trifling
matter before God.
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ELAH
ZIMRI
It came to pass when Zimri saw that the city was taken,
that he went into the citadel of the kings house, and burned the
kings house over him with fire; and he died for his sins which
he sinned in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah, in walking in the
way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, making Israel to
sin.
1 Kings 16:18-19
OMRI
AHAB (1)
AHAB (2)
AHAB (3)
AHAB (4)
AHAB (5)
AHAB (6)
world, we can expect wicked men to show their hatred for God
and His true servants ever more blatantly.
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AHAB (7)
AHAB (8)
away his face and refusing to eat. By God actions are weighed.
While men might make much of the rest of the acts of Ahab,
and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built, and all the
cities that he built (ch. 22:39), God shows us this wicked man
as He saw him.
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AHAZIAH (1)
make full use of them. But our trust must not be in things or in
people, but in the Lord alone!
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AHAZIAH (2)
JEHORAM (1)
The king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the
king of Edom, and they made a circuit of seven days journey.
And there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that
followed them. And the king of Israel said, Alas! that Jehovah
has called these three kings together, to give them into the
hand of Moab!
2 Kings 3:9-10
JEHORAM (2)
JEHORAM (3)
The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God
told him and warned him of, and he was on his guard
thereThe king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My
father, shall I smite? Shall I smite them? And he said, Thou
shalt not smite themHe said, God do so, and more also to
me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on
him this day!
2 Kings 6:10,21-22,31
JEHORAM (4)
The king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man
of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that
Elisha has done. And it came to pass as he was telling the king
how he had restored a dead body to life.
2 Kings 8:4-5
interest goes. They know about Christ, but they do not know
Him! This is not enough. Nor is it sufficient to be fair or kind or
good. Where do you stand in relation to the Lord Jesus Christ?
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JEHU (1)
JEHU (2)
JEHOAHAZ
more than that, He pitied His people and gave them a deliverer
from the Syrian oppression. Who this was we dont know, but
thank God for the Savior we do know!
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JEROBOAM II
ZECHARIAH
Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in
Samaria, six months. And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah,
according as his fathers had doneShallum the son of Jabesh
conspired against him, and smote him before the peopleThis
was the word of Jehovahto Jehu saying, Thy sons shall sit
upon the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it
came to pass.
2 Kings 15:8-12
Comparing the accounts of the reigns of the kings of
Israel and Judah at this point in history we find an apparent gap
of about 11 years between the end of Jeroboam IIs reign and
the start of his son Zechariahs reign. These were turbulent
times in Israel. Scripture does not give us details about all that
happened then. It does show us that despite all that may
happen in political affairs to earthly rulers, God is in ultimate
control, and He keeps His promises. Zechariah, Jehus great-
great-grandson, comes to the throne and reigns for six months.
What kind of a king was he? Scripture tells us three
things:
(1) He did evil in the sight of Jehovah;
(2) according as his fathers had done;
(3) he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin (v. 9).
SHALLUM
MENAHEM
PEKAHIAH
PEKAH
HOSHEA
CONCLUSION