I like 2 Chronicles. It's cool how each chapter is the mini-biography of each of the Kings of Jerusalem. They all seem to use the same formula to intro each king, name, age, how long they reigned, whether they followed the ways of David, and then their story. You can usually determine from the first few verses if they were a good king or a bad king, and then you kind of prepare yourself to be either impressed, disappointed, or sometimes even shocked!
One thing is for sure, I would NOT like to have been one of the bad kings. Just look at what happened to (the pretty despicable) Jehoram...
One thing is for sure, I would NOT like to have been one of the bad kings. Just look at what happened to (the pretty despicable) Jehoram...
2 Chronicles 21:14-15,18-19 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day....And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
Gross man.
On another note, I find it quite amusing to see the verse at the end of some of the chapters in 2 Chronicles that go a little like...
Now the rest of his story is written in the book of the kings
The little plug at the end makes me chuckle - if you want to read more, check out First Kings! It's like seeing a trailer for the sequel of a movie! But I think it actually works - on me anyways. As I near the end of 2 Chronicles, I can't help but feel a little excited to see what 1 and 2 Kings will have in store!
On another note, I find it quite amusing to see the verse at the end of some of the chapters in 2 Chronicles that go a little like...
Now the rest of his story is written in the book of the kings
The little plug at the end makes me chuckle - if you want to read more, check out First Kings! It's like seeing a trailer for the sequel of a movie! But I think it actually works - on me anyways. As I near the end of 2 Chronicles, I can't help but feel a little excited to see what 1 and 2 Kings will have in store!
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After commencing a study of the Kings of Judah, I now know that:
- 2 Chron is about both the Kings of Judah and Israel
- King Jehoram was a king of Israel
- Jehoram was like the worst of all Kings of Judah and he was the cause of all future kings of Israel being bad kins because of the laws he made
- the 'plug' at the end of the chapters is not referring to 1 and 2 Kings and is instead referring to other texts not contained in the Bible!
- writer of Kings and Chronicles were probably two different people!
Good to get some clarification hey?
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