Category: Daily Devotion

For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. ‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭24‬:‭20‬ ‭- Under the original covenant God made with His people, it was a if/then sort of agreement. If they…

Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of…

  Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 2 Kings 22:1 – It took more than 300 years for this verse to come about, but King Josiah was finally on the throne of Judah. While…

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 2 Kings‬ ‭21‬:‭17‬ ‭- Let’s be grateful that we have the book of 2 Chronicles that gives more details of Manasseh’s…

  Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?” 2 Kings 20:19 – Depending how you read this, you can walk away with very different outlooks on King Hezekiah. The king had just been told…

Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh. ‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭19‬:‭36‬ ‭- This is sort of a basic, boring verse to be our key verse for the devotion, isn’t it? Yet when shared to King Hezekiah and the people of Judah, this would have been the embolden letters on the…

  Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 2 Kings 18:28 – The northern kingdom of Israel had fallen, now only the southern kingdom of Judah remained. The same nation that took out Israel is…

  They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 2 Kings 17:15 – After a couple centuries…

  And the bronze altar that was before the Lord he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar. 2 Kings 16:14 – While the northern kingdom of Israel had been plagued with wicked kings, the southern kingdom of Judah had…

  And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. 2 Kings 15:28 – Within this short chapter we see the reign of five different kings of Israel, and each reign was plagued with treachery.…