Kings of Judah
Name of king: Rehoboam (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 17
(931-913 BC)
Scripture Refer.: 1.
King 14:21-31, 2. Chr 9:31-12:16
Good / bad king: Bad king 2. Chr
12:14
1.
BATTLES:
Rehoboam mobilized 180.000
men to fight against Israel and king Jeroboam, but the Lord stopped them.
In the fifth year of King
Rehoboam’s reign, King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem. He
stole the treasuries of the Lord’s Temple
and the royal palace, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
ALLIANCES:
No alliances. There was
constant war between Rehoboam and King Jeroboam in Israel.
OTHER EVENTS:
Rehoboam married Mahalath and Maacah and
had a lot of concubines. He had in all 28 sons and 60 daughters.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Shemaiah, 2. Chr 11:2-4
MESSAGE: Do not fight against your
relatives. Go back home.
RESPONDS: They obeyed
FULFILLED: Did not fight against Jeroboam.
PROPHET’S NAME: Shemaiah, 2. Chr 12:5-8
MESSAGE: You have abandoned me, so I am
abandoning you to Shisak.
RESPONDS: They humbled themselves
FULFILLED: Because of the change in their
hearts, the Lord did not completely destroy them
PROPHET’S NAME: Iddo the Seer, 2. Chr 12:15
MESSAGE: N/A
3.
REMARKS:
For King Rehoboam's first three years as king, he carefully obeyed the
LORD, aided by the believers who fled to Judah from the evil King Jeroboam of neighboring Israel. Later,
though, Rehoboam introduced cults into his land, aided by his wife Maachah.
Although he repented, and God stopped the punishment he had been planning,
God's overall verdict of Rehoboam is evil because Rehoboam prepared not his
heart to seek the LORD.
When Rehoboam died, he was buried among his ancestors in the
City of David. His mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. Then his son Abijam[
became the next king.
4.LEADERSHIP
APPLICATION:
Be careful to choose
right advisers – with wisdom and experience! Rehoboam should have listen to the
older men who had counseled his father Solomon.
Instead he listened to the advice from the group of young men he had
grown up with. The consequences were fatal.
Name of king: Abijam (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 3
(913-911 BC)
Scripture Refer.: 1.
King 15:1-8, 2. Chr 13:1-14:1
Good / bad king: Bad king, 1. King
15:1-3
1.
BATTLES:
War broke out again between Judah and Israel. As the armies faced each
other, King Abijam addressed a sermon to the enemy army and invited them to
reject Jeroboam and his cult and return to the LORD and rejoin Judah,
predicting that the LORD would fight on behalf of his faithful people.
While Abijam made his appeal, Jeroboam's people prepared an ambush,
surrounding Abijam's army. Seeing their plight, the soldiers cried out to God.
God routed Jeroboam's army. Judah inflicted 500,000 casualties on Israel, and
captured many border towns, including Bethel, one of the centers of Jeroboam's
golden calf cult.
ALLIANCES:
No alliances and there was
constant war between Abijam and King Jeroboam in Israel
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Iddo the Seer, 2. Chr 13:22
MESSAGE: N/A
3.
REMARKS:
Though his three years as king are declared
to be evil, the only incident recorded does show some limited faith and
success.
Name of king: Asa (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 41 (911-870
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 1.
King 15:9-24, 2. Chr 14:1-16:14
Good / bad king: Good king, 1
King 15:11-14
1.
BATTLES:
After a time of peace with preparation for war, the army of Ethiopia
invaded Judah with 1 million soldiers. Asa's forces were far inferior. Asa
expressed his helplessness and his faith in God to defend them. When the battle
began, the Ethiopian army was massacred. The LORD had indeed defended them.
Late in King Asa's reign, King Baasha in Israel began to prepare for war with
Judah. He closed the borders and fortified border cities. Asa saw this as a
threat to be taken seriously. When Baasha's preparations were well along, Asa
made the treaty with King Ben-hadad in Syria. Then Baasha finding his kingdom
under attack, and ended his preparations against Judah and left to defend his
kingdom. Asa took the opportunity to dismantle the abandoned work and
confiscate the building materials, implementing a nationwide draft to provide
the work force.
ALLIANCES:
King Asa made a treaty with King Ben-hadad
of Aram who was ruling in Damascus. He asked Ben-hadad to break the treaty with
King Baasha of Israel.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Azariah, 2. Chr 15:1,8
MESSAGE: Stay with the Lord, don’t abandon
Him. Be strong and courageous!
RESPONDS: Asa was courage and removed all
the detestable idols. He,repaired the altar of the Lord and the people repented.
FULFILLED: The Lord gave them rest from their
enemies.
PROPHET’S NAME: Hanani, 2. Chr 16:7-10
MESSAGE: Hanani told Asa that he had been negligent. God had intended to
bring disaster on Ben-hadad, who was always hostile to Israel and Judah. But
Asa had failed to consult God in this crisis, and so Ben-hadad had escaped.
Hanani reminded Asa how God had rescued him earlier. But this time he had
ignored God, and because of this, the remainder of his reign would be marked by
war.
RESPONDS: Asa did not repent, and King Asa was furious. He had Hanani arrested,
and abused his sympathizers.
4.
REMARKS:
In king Asa’s 39 th. Year of reign, he got
a foot disease, but he did not seek the Lord’s help, but only his own
physicians. Then he died in his 41. th year of his reign.
Name of king: Jehoshaphat (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 25 (873-848
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 1.
Kings 22:41-50, 2. Chr 17:1-21:1
Good / bad king: Good king, 1.
Kings 22:42-43
1.
BATTLES:
Against Syria
(Ramoth-gilead)
During a meeting with Israel's King Ahab Jehoshaphat expressed his
desire to recover territories taken from him by Syria. Jehoshaphat agreed to
join him in this venture, on the condition that they first seek the LORD's
approval. The Lord did not approve. The prophet Micaiah foretold that Ahab
would be killed in this battle. The Syrian king, who held a grudge against
Ahab, had instructed his men to focus only on killing Ahab, ignoring every
other battle objective. Ahab was killed by a random arrow, and retreated to die
near his palace at Jezreel.
Against Moabites,
Ammonites and some of the Meunites
King Jehoshaphat had his greatest crisis when three nations joined,
forming a vast army, and launched an invasion.
Then Jehoshaphat organized a national day of prayer. The entire
population assembled at Jerusalem, fasting and praying. The king himself prayed
and ended his prayer with the words, “We do not know what to do, but our eyes
are upon you.” 2.Chron 20.12. Next morning the Lord told him they wouldn't have
to fight — so the temple choir led the army! They marched to meet the enemy,
singing praises to God. As the enemy heard the army of Judah approaching them,
singing, they were thrown into confusion. The three armies began bickering with
each other, then killing each other. By the time Jehoshaphat's army reached the
battlefield, there was no sign of a single survivor.
The battle was followed by intense celebration, and as the news spread,
the nearby kingdoms were so struck with dread that no one waged war against
Judah for the rest of Jehoshaphat's reign.
Against Moab
King Jehoshaphat joined Jehoram, now Israel's king, in a war against Moab.
(2.King 3). They wanted to seek advice from the Lord. They asked the prophet
Elisha, and he told them that the LORD would give them victory over Moab, and
they were to impair Moab's future ability to arm themselves for war by
destroying their timber, wells, and farm fields. They dug ditches, and the next
morning a flood ran through the valley, filling the ditches with water. So the
armies were rescued from death by dehydration.
That same morning, the army of Moab looked out over the valley where the
three armies had camped the night before. In the light of the rising sun, the
water-filled ditches looked like blood-covered fields, and the Moabites
concluded that the three armies had quarreled and slaughtered each other.
Rushing without caution to collect the plunder, they ran unarmed into Israel's
camp, and were routed.
ALLIANCES:
After the death of King Ahab in Israel, Jehoshaphat
formed an alliance with Ahab's son and successor, King Ahaziah. Together they built a
fleet of ships,
intending to embark on the international shipping trade. However Ahaziah, like
Ahab, was wholeheartedly committed to evil, and God found the alliance
repugnant. A prophet told Jehoshaphat that the LORD would destroy the ships,
and in fact they were shipwrecked before their first voyage. Ahaziah urged
Jehoshaphat not to give up, but to rebuild and try again. Jehoshaphat, however,
listened to the LORD and refused.
OTHER EVENTS:
They taught the Lord’s Law for the people
of Juda (17:9).
He was traveling around and courage people
to return to the Lord.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Micaiah, 2. Chr 18:14-24
MESSAGE: Micaiah foretold that
Ahab would be killed in the battle in Ramoth-gilead (18:22).
RESPONDS: They didn’t listen to Micaiah’s
advice.
FULFILLED: Ahab died (18:34).
PROPHET’S NAME: Jehu, 2. Chr 19:2,3
MESSAGE:
He informed Jehoshaphat that the LORD was angry with him for entering
the battle against the LORD's instructions, given by the prophet Micaiah. The
partnership between godly Jehoshaphat and wicked Ahab was repulsive to God.
RESPONDS:
FULFILLED: Because this was an aberration
from Jehoshaphat's usual stance of faith and obedience, the LORD did not punish
Jehoshaphat (19:3).
PROPHET’S NAME: Jahaziel, 2. Chr 20:14-17
MESSAGE: Jahaziel instructed the
army to march against the invaders without fear, take up their battle
positions, and watch the LORD fight this battle; the army would not have to
fight at all.
RESPONDS: They did as God has said through
Jahaziel.
FULFILLED: They won the battle. (20:24).
PROPHET’S NAME: Eliezer, 2. Chr 20:37
MESSAGE: Because you have allied yourself
with king Ahaziah, the Lord will destroy your work.
RESPONDS:
FULFILLED: The ships met with disaster and
never put out to sea.
PROPHET’S NAME: Elisha, 2. King 3:14-19
MESSAGE: Elisha told them that the LORD would give them victory over
Moab, and they were to impair Moab's future ability to arm themselves for war
by destroying their timber, wells, and farm fields. They dug ditches, and the
next morning a flood ran through the valley, filling the ditches with water. So
the armies were rescued from death by dehydration.
RESPONDS: They attacked!
FULFILLED: That same morning, the army of Moab looked out over the
valley where the three armies had camped the night before. In the light of the
rising sun, the water-filled ditches looked like blood-covered fields, and the
Moabites concluded that the three armies had quarreled and slaughtered each
other. Rushing without caution to collect the plunder, they ran unarmed into
Israel's camp, and were routed.
Name of king: Jehoram (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 8 (848-841
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 2.
King 8:16-24, 2. Chr 21:1-20
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2 Kings
8:16-18
1.
BATTLES:
In consequence of his evil deeds, Jehoram faced two rebellions. First
Edom, previously a vassal state, rebelled and achieved their independence.
Trying to suppress the revolt, Jehoram was surrounded and narrowly escaped
being killed. Later Libnah, a well fortified city in Judah near the Philistine
border, declared their independence and seceded.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Elijah, 2. Chr 21:12-15
MESSAGE: Elijah sent him a letter to Jehoram stating that the LORD would
strike a heavy blow against his family, and that he himself would die a painful
death from a lingering disease.
RESPONDS:
FULFILLED: Soon after, enemies invaded
Judah. They plundered the king's palace, and took his wives and sons away,
later killing them, only the youngest escaped.
Then Jehoram contracted a fatal disease, causing intense pain for two
years, after which he died.
PROPHET’S NAME: Iddo the Seer, 2. Chr 12:15
Name of king: Ahaziah (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 1 (941
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 2.
King 8:25-9:29, 2. Chr 22:1-9
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2. King
8:25-27
1.
BATTLES:
Ahaziah accompanied Jehoram in battle against Syria. Jehoram was
wounded, and retired to his palace at Jezreel to recuperate. Ahaziah
accompanied him there. As the two kings rested, Jehoram's general Jehu approached the city by chariot,
having been sent by the LORD's prophet Elisha to kill all the descendents of
evil King Ahab, and assume the throne of Israel. Both Jehoram and Ahaziah were
descendents of Ahab. As Jehu's chariot approached, the two kings went together
to meet Jehu, and he killed them both.
ALLIANCES:
Cooperated with king Jehoram against Syria.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: A/N
Name of king: Queen Athaliah (Judah – Davidic
Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 6 (841-835
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 1.
King 11:1-20, 2. Chr 22:10-23:21
Good / bad king: Bad king (queen), 2 Chronicles 24:7
1.
BATTLES: A/N
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: A/N
4.
REMARKS:
Athaliah was the daughter of Israel's King Ahab, was married to Judah's
King Jehoram, and was the mother of
Jehoram's successor, King Ahaziah. Jehoram died
prematurely by disease, and Ahaziah was killed only a year later. Athaliah
decided not to allow her baby grandson to become king, but to assume the throne
herself. To this end, she murdered every heir who might be a rival to the
throne, and declared herself queen. However, her daughter Jehosheba managed to
rescue Ahaziah's baby son Joash (next king).
Name of king: Joash (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 40 (835-796
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 1.
King 11:21-12:21, 2. Chr 24:1-27
Good / bad king: Good in youth, bad in old
days, 2. King 12:2, 2 Chr. 24:17-21
1.
BATTLES:
Syria launched a second attack against Jerusalem, slaughtering the
nobility and plundering their wealth. Since this was only a small strike force,
Joash quickly assembled a full army and struck in defense of his kingdom.
However, lacking the LORD's support, he was unable to fight well, and was
defeated by Syria's tiny force. Joash himself was badly wounded.
OTHER EVENTS: / years when he became king.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Zechariah
MESSAGE: why do you disobey the Lord….you
have abandoned the Lord, and now he has abandoned you! 2.Chr 24.20
RESPONDS: Joash ordered that Zechariah was
stoned
FULFILLED: king died and not buried as a
king.
3.
LEADERSHIP
APPLICATION:
There was much discontent over Joash's recent poor leadership, and
especially his ruthless treatment of Jehoiada's son, and so a group of
opponents took this opportunity to conspire, killing him as he lay recuperating
in his bed.
Name
of king: Amaziah (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 29 (796-767
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 2.
King 14:1-20, 2. Chr 25:1-28
Good / bad king: Good in youth,
bad in old days, 2 Chr.25:1-2, 2 Chr. 25:27
1.
BATTLES:
A border war broke out between Judah and Edom. Amaziah mustered his army
of 300,000 men for the battle. Considering this insufficient, he hired an
additional 100,000 men from. After a large sum was paid and the army on hand, a
prophet told King Amaziah that because of Israel's sin, the LORD would oppose
Amaziah's army if Israel marched with them. Obediently, Amaziah sent Israel
home, forfeiting the payment he had made. The result was a great success. The
army of Edom fled so swiftly that only 20,000 casualties could be inflicted.
Amaziah captured Selah, deep in Edomite territory, and gave it the Hebrew name
Joktheel. That Judah occupied it for a long time is indicated since the new
name stuck. After the battle, however, Amaziah looted Edom's temples and
brought their idols home, and establishing his own center of idol worship.
ALLIANCES:
A kind of alliance, when Amaziah hired
100 000 men from Israel of nearly 4 tons of silver.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Unnamed, 2. Chr. 25:7-9,
15,16
MESSAGE: The prophet
pointed out to Amaziah that those idols hadn't saved the Edomites from him, and
so it was foolish for him to trust them. Furious, the king silenced the
prophet, threatening him with death. He later prophesied that God would destroy
Amaziah for refusing to hear.Name of king: Uzziah (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 52 (767-740
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 2.
King 15:1-7, 2. Chr 26:1-23
Good / bad king: Good king, 2
Chronicles 26:3-4
BATTLES:
Uzziah had an army of 307 500
well-trained warriors, but there is no battles mentioned.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Isaiah, 2. Chr 26:5
MESSAGE: It says in verse 26.22 – the rest
of the Events of Uzziah’s reign, are recorded by the prophet Isaiah in his
book.
REMARKS:
He entered the Temple and personally burning incense on the incense altar. Therefore
God struck him with leprosy.
Name of king: Jotham (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 16 (740/750-731
BC)
Scripture Refer. 2.
King 15:32-38, 2. Chr 27:1-9
Good / bad king: Good king, 2
Kings 15:32-34
1.
BATTLES:
Jotham led a rebellion by the Ammonites
upon his father's death and conquered them.
There were some tensions with Pekah and
Syria.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Isaiah
PROPHET’S NAME: Micah
3.
REMARKS:
He was rebuilt the Temple and did what was
pleasing in Lord’s sight.
4.
LEADERSHIP
APPLICATION:
He became
powerful because he was careful to live in obedience to the Lord (2. Chr 27:6).
Name of king: Ahaz (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 16 (715/735-715
BC)
Scripture Refer. 2.
King 16:1-20, 2. Chr 28:1-27
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2 King
16:2
1.
BATTLES:
On one occasion, Israel invaded Judah and took 200,000 wives and
children of Judah's warriors to be slaves. The Lord, unwilling to abandon Judah
in spite of Ahaz' commitment to evil, sent a prophet to meet the conquering
army, threatening them with the Lord's anger for kidnapping their brothers'
families. Ahaz refused to trust the Lord.
Later, when Judah was
invaded by the combined armies of Israel and Syria, the Lord spoke through the
prophet Isaiah, promising that the attack would not be successful — and within
a couple years, both enemies' lands would be laid waste. But in spite of the Lord's
offer of a miracle to verify the prophecy and aid Ahaz' faith, Ahaz wouldn't
trust the Lord. He plundered the Lord's temple and his own palace to send a
payment to the king of Assyria to rescue him. In response, Assyria captured
Damascus, Syria's capital, and killed Syria's king.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Isaiah (Isaiah 7:3-9)
MESSAGE: The attack against Judah will not succeed.
RESPONDS: Ahaz wouldn't trust the LORD.
FULFILLED: Ahaz was rescued, but at a great
cost: Judah became a vassal to Assyria.
PROPHET’S NAME: Micah
3.
LEADERSHIP
APPLICATION:
In recognition
of Ahaz' terrible leadership and its great cost to the nation, Ahaz was buried
in a commoner's grave rather than the royal cemetery.
Name of king: Hezekiah (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 29 (715/729-686
BC)
Scripture Refer. 2.
King 18:1-20:21, 2. Chr 29:1-32:33, Is.36:1-39:8
Good / bad king: Good king, 2
Kings 18:1-6
1.
BATTLES:
Recognizing that to gain independence, they would eventually have to
suffer an Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, Hezekiah had spent years making
preparations and his armies were well trained and obedient.
The siege came. Even though
Hezekiah had met King Sennacherib's extreme demands, Assyria didn't withdraw as promised.
Sennacherib's army surrounded Jerusalem, with Sennacherib himself on site for
occasional supervisory visits. Appealing to Judah's army to rebel against
Hezekiah in order to prevent their destruction, he made offers of payments to
anyone who would overthrow Hezekiah and surrender to Assyria. Reflecting great
faith in the Lord and their king, no one responded. At this taunt, Hezekiah was crushed, recognizing his hopeless position. In great grief, he went to the temple to pray, comparing his bid for independence to a child about to be born, but lacking strength for the delivery.
Hezekiah took a letter from Sennacherib's to the temple, spread it out for the Lord to see, and prayed over it. The Lord responded by inspiring the prophet Isaiah to write a long poem about Sennacherib's defeat. He promised Sennacherib would be unable to attack the city.
That night, a plague struck the Assyrian army surrounding Jerusalem, and 185,000 soldiers died. Sennacherib, spooked by this, withdrew. Not long after, he was assassinated. The Assyrian Heath was over. Judah was independent.
OTHER EVENTS:
Built the Walls and Hezekiah water tunnel
in Jerusalem.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Isaiah
MESSAGE: The Lord sent the prophet Isaiah
to tell Hezekiah not to be afraid — the LORD would arrange for Sennacherib to
withdraw to handle another crisis, and he would be killed before he could
return to Jerusalem.
FULFILLED: They wan the battle and
Sennacherib was killed by his sons (Is. 37:36-38).
PROPHET’S NAME: Micah
4.
LEADERSHIP
APPLICATION:
Name of king: Manasseh (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 55 (686/696-642
BC)
Scripture Refer. 2.
King 21:1-18, 2. Chr 33:1-20
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2. King
21:1
1.
BATTLES:
In the last time of Manasseh's
55-year reign, Assyria attacked Jerusalem, captured Manasseh, and placed him in
a prison 1,000 miles away. Humiliated and powerless, he sat in his cell and
remembered his father's days.
He began to pray, confessing his sin and asking the LORD's help. The
LORD heard Manasseh's prayer, freed him, and returned him to his throne in
Jerusalem.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Nahum,
PROPHET’S NAME: Unnamed Prophets, 2. King
21:10, 2. Chr 33:18.
MESSAGE: Manasseh’s did evil in Gods eyes –
because of this God will wipe away the people of Jerusalem, reject them and
hand them over to the enemies-
FULFILLED: The Kong was taken as a prisoner
of the Assyrian king
3.
REMARKS:
He rebuilt High Places – even worshiped
pagan God inside the temple. Sacrificed his own son .He practiced sorcery and divination,
consulted mediums and psychics. Killed lots of innocent people.
Name of king: Amon (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 2 (642-640
BC)
Scripture Refer. 2.
King 21:19-26, 2. Chr 33:21-25
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2 King
21:19-20
1.
BATTLES: it is not written
OTHER EVENTS: his officers conspired on him,
and then t he people killed them, and made his son King
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: N/A
Name of king: Josiah (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 31 (640-609
BC)
Scripture Refer. 2.
King 22:1-23:30, 2. Chr 34:1-35:27
Good / bad king: Good king, 2.King
22:1-2
1.
BATTLES:
Josiah and his army marched to fight Pharaoh
Neco of Egypt at Carchemish, but Josiah got killed when they met at Megiddo.
OTHER EVENTS:
He repaired the Temple.
Renewed the covenant.
Lifted up the Sabbath and the reading and
keeping of the Lord’s Word.
They celebrated Passover again “ Never
since Solomon had there been such a Passover “ 2.Chr. 35.18
There had never been a king like Josiah. He
was turned to the Lord with all his heart and obeyed all the laws of Moses.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Jeremiah
MESSAGE: composed funeral songs. The book
of Laments.
PROPHET’S NAME: Zephaniah
PROPHET’S NAME: Huldah, 2. King 22:14-20,
2. Chr. 34:22-28
MESSAGE: Because of my people has abandoned
me my angry will be poured out…but because Josiah humbled himself it will not
happen before he is dead.
RESPONDS:
FULFILLED:
3.
REMARKS:
At 25 years of age, Josiah decided to rebuild the Lord's
temple, deteriorated with age. As the workers were cleaning, they found an obscure book that no one had ever
heard of — the Bible, forgotten by previous generations. As the king listened
to his secretary read the Bible, he was struck with grief and terror, and
certain the Lord was furious with Josiah and his people for their disobedience.
Immediately,
Josiah set upon a sweeping program to eliminate pagan
worship and renew the ancient covenant of the Lord. He toured the land,
destroying pagan shrines, and as said above celebrated the Passover for the
first time in decades.
5.
LEADERSHIP
APPLICATION: Can godly leader acting alone really change hearts? It is easy to
follow a good and inspirering leader, but unless the persons heart is attacked
to the Lord the leader points at, nothing much comes out of it.
Name of king: Jehoahaz (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 3
months (609 BC)
Scripture Refer.: 2.
King 23:31-34, 2. Chr 36:1-4, Jer. 22:1-12
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2. King
23:31-32
1.
BATTLES:
N/A
OTHER EVENTS: Was taken in captive by the
Egypt’s Pharaoh Neco three months after he became king.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Jeremiah
Name of king: Jehoiakim (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 11 (609-598
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 2.
King 23:34-24:7, 2. Chr 36:4-8, Jer. 22:13-23, 26, 36
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2. Chr.
36:5, 8
1.
BATTLES:
Babylon invaded, as prophets had said they
would. Jehoiakim submitted for three years, then declared his independence, and
so the Babylonian king laid siege against Jerusalem. He intended to capture
Jehoiakim and deport him to Babylon, but it didn't work out that way.
Jehoiakim's people apparently judged him treasonous, killed him, and threw his
body over the wall to appease Babylon.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Jeremiah
PROPHET’S NAME: Habakkuk
PROPHET’S NAME: Daniel
PROPHET’S NAME: Urijah, Jer 26:20
Name of king: Jehoiachin (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 3
months (598-597 BC)
Scripture Refer.: 2.
King 24:8-17, 2. Chr 36:9, 10, Jer. 22:24-30, 52:31-34
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2. King
24:8-9
1.
BATTLES:
Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem, and easily reconquered it. He
deported everyone and everything of value — all the treasures from the palace
and the temple, all the nobility and educated people, and the military. Only
the poorest peasants were left. Nebuchadnezzar placed Jehoiachin's uncle, Zedekiah, as king over those few remaining,
thereby fulfilling the prophecy that no descendent of Jehoiachin would be king
of Judah.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Jeremiah
PROPHET’S NAME: Daniel
3.
REMARKS:
Jehoiachin was taken to Babylon and put in prison, where he spent 37
years. After that time, Babylon's new king released Jehoiachin from prison and
gave him a job in government service until his death.
Name of king: Zedekiah (Judah – Davidic Dynasty)
Years of Reign: 11 (597-586
BC)
Scripture Refer.: 2.
King 24:17-25:7, 2. Chr 36:11-21, Jer.39:1-10, 52:1-11
Good / bad king: Bad king, 2 King
24:18-19
1.
BATTLES:
In his ninth year as king, Zedekiah severed relations with Babylon. King
Nebuchadnezzar was furious. He personally led his army in a siege against
Jerusalem. As the confrontation progressed, Jeremiah repeatedly communicated
the Lord's word that resistance would result in disaster, but if Zedekiah would
surrender, all lives would be saved. Zedekiah listened, but
maintained his hopeless rebellion.
The siege lasted three
summers. At its end, when the food supply was exhausted, Zedekiah gathered his
army, opened the city gate, and made a night-time escape. Babylon's army made
chase, and soon captured Zedekiah. He was taken to Babylon to die of old age in
prison, thereby unwillingly fulfilling the prophecy that he would go to Babylon
and die there, but never see it. Nebuchadnezzar had thus squashed rebellion in
Judah three times, and he would allow no more. He directed his army to break
down completely the protective wall surrounding Jerusalem. They burned the
king's palace, the LORD's temple, and many other important buildings to the
ground. Everything of value was taken to Babylon.
The kingdom of Judah was gone, never to return. The people, however, did
return — that is, their descendents returned — 70 years later, as the prophet
Jeremiah had said would happen.
2.
PROPHET’S NAME: Jeremiah
MESSAGE: “Say to
Ebed-melech the Ethiopian: ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s
Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will do to this city everything I have
threatened. I will send disaster, not prosperity. You will see its destruction,
but I will rescue you from those you fear so much. Because you trusted me, I will give you your life as a reward. I
will rescue you and keep you safe. I, the Lord, have
spoken!’”
RESPONDS: The Lord gave a message to Jeremiah after
Nebuzaradan had released him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains
among all the other captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being sent to exile
in Babylon.
Nebuzaradan said
to Jeremiah that he is going to take off his chains and let him go wherever he
would like.
FULFILLED:
Then Nebuzaradan,
the captain of the guard, gave Jeremiah some food and money and let him go. 6 So
Jeremiah returned to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and he lived in Judah
with the few who were still left in the land.
PROPHET’S NAME: Daniel
PROPHET’S NAME: Ezekiel
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