Category: Book 2 Chapter 5

We now come to the most faithful King that Judah ever had, the godly child-king, Josiah. He was more faithful, and more wholehearted, than any of his predecessors, even the good ones: 1Josi’ah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned …

Sadly, Hezekiah’s son, Manasseh, was evil, at least for the majority of his reign. God’s verdict on those wasted and misused years is very scathing: 1Manas’seh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2He did what was …

Next we see a faithful King, Hezekiah of Judah. Note that the Northern Kingdom of Israel never had any faithful kings. Every single one of them was unfaithful and evil. King Hezekiah saw what the unfaithfulness of previous Kings of Judah had caused and also …

Next we see a King who received a wholly bad report from God. We are told that King Ahaz “did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD”. Note the things that God highlights which led to his downfall: 1Ahaz was twenty years …

Now look at Amaziah’s son, King Uzziah of Judah. He too began well but then allowed himself to slip. He dropped his standards as a result of the same problems of pride, over-confidence and presumption: 1And all the people of Judah took Uzzi’ah, who was …

There were three main things that caused Amaziah to go astray in the end and to abandon his faithfulness: a) He did not fully trust in God to help him. So, he formed an alliance with the idolatrous Northern Kingdom of Israel. God did not …

because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uri’ah the Hittite. 1 Kings 15:5 (RSV) 11And Asa did what …