Category: Daily Devotion

  And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. Mark 2:2 – We can tell the Jesus isn’t too far into His years of ministry due to His not even having all His disciples called yet, but already…

  And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. Mark 1:10 – Maybe you noticed this while reading the chapter, but we find a word repeated often in this chapter and is used more than 40 times in the short…

So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table, and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived. ‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭25‬:‭29‬-‭30‬ ‭- In this last chapter of 2 Kings we…

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…