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Announcements. Prayer for Westmont College When you receive your paper back via e-mail attachment, please be sure that you can view the comments. If not, do ask as I have added rather extensive comments in a number of cases. For those doing extra credit for Monday, it must cover
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Announcements • Prayer for Westmont College • When you receive your paper back via e-mail attachment, please be sure that you can view the comments. If not, do ask as I have added rather extensive comments in a number of cases. • For those doing extra credit for Monday, it must cover • 1 Kings 21 through the end of 2 Kings • 2 Chronicles 18 through the end of 2 Chronicles
Let’s Sing Psalm 51:10-12 • Lev tahor b’rah li - Elohim • A pure heart create for me O God V’ruah nahon hadesh bekirbi - Elohim And a right spirit renew within me [O God] • Al tashlikheni miliphanekha v’ruah kodshekhah • Do not cast me away from your Presence and Your Holy Spirit al tikakh mimeni (2x) • Do not take from me • Hashivah li seson yishekha v’ruah nedivah tismekheni (2x) • Restore to me the joy of your salvation and an upright spirit put within me.
Divided Kingdom: To the Fall of Jerusalem
International Politics • Assyria – Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem during the time of Hezekiah • Babylonia – Nebuchadnezzar (or Nebuchadrezzar) – note OTP and the Lachish Letters and Jeremiah 34:6-7 • Egypt – Pharaoh Necho (or Neco) responsible for the death of Josiah
Catching up “down south”… • Overview of rulers from Jehoshaphat and Jehoram to Uzziah • Ahaziah – assassinated by Jehu • Athaliah – grand-daughter of Omri • Joash – established as king by Jehoiada • Amaziah – also assassinated • Azariah/Uzziah (2 Chr 26) • A good king • Pridefully entered the Temple to burn incense and was afflicted with leprosy • Jotham was his son • Ahaz (2 Chr 28) • Alliance with Assyria • Adoption of foreign altar and temple style • Shut the doors of the Temple • The message in Isaiah
Revival Under Hezekiah[2 Chronicles 29-31; 2 Kings 18] • Religious reforms • Attacked idolatry – including the bronze serpent • Cleansed the Temple • Celebrated Passover in the second month • Political chutzpah – rebellion against Assyria • Sennacherib’s invasion
Sennacherib Prism Storming Lachich
Siege of Jerusalem: God’s Provision and Deliverance [2 Kings 19; 2 Chronicles 32] • Hezekiah’s prayer • Deliverance foretold - Isaiah • Hezekiah’s defenses – the walls and water system [2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chr 32:2-5] • Removal of Assyrian forces • Lessons
City of David Gihon Spring Hezekiah’s Tunnel Schematic Map of Jerusalem
The Evil of Manasseh • Low spiritual ebb (2 Chr 33; 2 Kings 21) • Re-established idolatry • Shed much innocent blood • Taken prisoner by king of Assyria • Repentance • In response to his prayer, God brought him back (2 Chr 33:13) • Note 2 Kings 24:4 – the consequences for the people of the broken covenant
Josiah’s Reform Finding the book of the Torah Discovery – Hilkiah Interpretation - Huldah Covenant renewal Purging Temple, its precincts, Jerusalem and the Land Fulfillment of the prophecy made at Bethel Celebrating Passover Josiah’s character
The Last of the Kings • Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim [sons of Josiah] • First invasion by Babylon (597) • Jehoichin [son of Jehoiakim] – taken to Babylon • Zedekiah, a puppet king [son of Josiah] • Final invasion (586) • destruction of the Temple • Exile to Babylon • The land had its rest • Gedaliah, the governor, assassinated