Category: Daily Devotion

  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.…

Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.” 2 Kings‬ ‭14‬:‭8‬ ‭- Amaziah, the king of Judah, had just won a massive victory over Edom. He was able to gather 300,000 soldiers and took out 20,000 Edomites…

  And he said, “Take the arrows,” and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground with them.” And he struck three times and stopped. 19 Then the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria…

  The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord; it belonged to the priests. 2 Kings 12:16 – The temple of the Lord had been in disrepair for a while now due to the previous king’s lack of following the Lord. The new king Jehoash…

  And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah reigned over the land. 2 Kings 11:3 – While there is a good amount of odd sounding names and good amount of background details needed to fully grasp what’s going on, here is a snapshot to help you get…