Josiah is dead and God’s wrath is still stored up for Judah. Her last free king takes the throne only to be replaced by puppets as Judah declines. We are going to move quickly through the last four kings of Judah. The Holy Spirit doesn’t give us much detail about this time in this book. […]
Jehoahaz became king after his father Josiah was killed by Pharaoh Neco. He was evil in the sight of the Lord and lasted three months. We are told in our previous reading who made Jehoahaz king; it was the people of Israel. I almost missed that when looking at our reading today. But we don’t […]
Jehu’s son takes the throne. He also led the people to the idols that Jeroboam set up. But he turned to God near his end. I wanted to see what event prompted his turning to God but we don’t have the chronicles of the kings of Israel so I wasn’t able to find any specifics. […]