Originally posted: 3/20/2020
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you,’” (19:20). Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2023
2 Kings 18 … Consider Him Who Commends Those Who Cling
Originally posted: 3/19/2020
He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him. 6 For he clung to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses, (18:5-6). Continue reading
2 Kings 17 … Consider His Warnings for Our Welfare
Originally posted: 03/18/2020
Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets,” (17:13).
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2 Kings 16 … Consider Him Who Does Not Force Our Allegiance
Originally posted: 3/17/2020
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his father David had done, (16:2). Continue reading
2 Kings 15 … Consider His Compassionate Correction
Originally posted: 3/16/2020
The Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death. And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land, (15:5). Continue reading
2 Kings 14 … Consider What He Did Not Say
Originally posted: 03/15/2020
For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel. 27 The Lord did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash, (14:26-27). Continue reading
2 Kings 13 … Consider His Covenant Corroborated by His Compassion
Originally posted: 3/14/2020
But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them or cast them from His presence until now, (13:23). Continue reading
2 Kings 12 … Consider Him, Our Beloved Priest and Teacher
Originally posted: 3/13/2020
Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him, (12:2). Continue reading
2 Kings 11 … Consider Him Who Preserves His Promise
Originally posted: 03/12/2020
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and placed him and his nurse in the bedroom. So they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death, (11:1-2). Continue reading
2 Kings 10 … Consider What His Word Will Never Do
Originally posted: 3/11/2020
“Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah,” (10:10). Continue reading