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PULL OUT THIS CHARTPULL OUT THIS CHART: : JUDAH IS JUDGEDJUDAH IS JUDGED
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HEZEKIAH
JUDAH IS JUDGEDJUDAH IS JUDGED
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HEZEKIAH
(GOOD)
• Cleansing and rededicating the Temple
• Reinstating the Passover
• Mediator for his people when attacked by Assyria
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MANASSEH(BAD)
Apprentice king (ruled along side his father at age 12)
Judah’s worst king?
• Reversed his father’s religious reforms—blended false gods and pagan practices with worship of the Lord.
• Made Judah a vassal state of Assyria again
• Repented too late to avoid judgment or to affect change among his people.
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JOSIAH(GOOD)
One of Judah’s best kings.
No one had his passion (heart, mind and soul) for the Law of the Lord!
• Purged the idols, and restored the Temple.
• Found the Book of the Law (Moses) and read it aloud to the people.
• Worked for reform.
• Died in battle when he ignored God’s will.
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NAHUM(spoke God’s
judgment against
the Assyrian Empire)
• Assyria is a “young lion” drunk with power and filled with evil.• Assyria will pay for their cruelty and exploitation when Babylon destroys them.
WhirlwindFire
Earthquake
LocustsFlood
Zephaniah, the ProphetZephaniah, the Prophet• Zephaniah = “The Lord protects”
• Zephaniah was a descendant of King Hezekiah
• Contemporary of Jeremiah and Habakkuk
• Prophesied during Josiah’s reign
• Spoke God’s judgment against Judah Repeated emphasis on “the Day of the Lord”
• Warned of invasion by the Babylonians.
The Book of ZephaniahThe Book of Zephaniah• One of the minor prophetic books (#9)
• Folds the threefold message pattern:• Announcement of judgment• Call to repentance• Promise of a time of restoration
• Complaints against syncretism & social injustice
Structure of the book:•The Day of the Lord (1:2 – 2:3)
•Judgment Against the Nations & Jerusalem (2:4 - 15)
•Salvation of the Nations & Jerusalem (3:1 – 13)
•Yahweh’s Universal Reign (New Heavens, New Earth)
Excerpts from ZephaniahExcerpts from Zephaniah
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’ Their wealth will be plundered, their houses demolished. Though they build houses, they will not live in them; though they plant vineyards, they will not drink the wine.” (1:12 -13)
Excerpts from ZephaniahExcerpts from Zephaniah
Gather together, gather yourselves together, you shameful nation, before the decree takes effect and that day passes like windblown chaff……Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger. ” (2:1- 3)
Excerpts from ZephaniahExcerpts from Zephaniah
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
She obeys no one, she accepts no correction.
She does not trust in the LORD, she does not draw near to her God.
(3:1 – 2)
Judah’s Quick Downhill SlideJudah’s Quick Downhill SlideKing What
Happened?Explanation Length
of Reign
JOSIAH
2 Kings 22:1 – 2; 22:20;23:25
Judah’s Quick Downhill SlideJudah’s Quick Downhill SlideKing What
Happened?Explanation Length
of Reign
JOSIAH
2 Kings 22:1 – 2; 22:20;23:25
The people would
experience
disaster, but it
would not happen while Josiah
was alive.
Josiah has been faithful, but the people
would not truly
repent.
31 year
s
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Happened?Explanation Length
of Reign
JEHOAHAZ
2 Kings 22:16 – 17; 23:31 – 35;
Judah’s Quick Downhill SlideJudah’s Quick Downhill SlideKing What
Happened?Explanation Length
of Reign
JEHOAHAZ
2 Kings 22:16 – 17; 23:31 – 35;
Pharaoh Neco
put him in chains and sent him into exile in Egypt where he
died. Neco also
imposed heavy
tribute on Judah.
The sins of the people were
so great and their
reforms were
insincere.
3 mont
hs
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Happened?Explanation Length
of Reign
JEHOIAKIM
2 Kings 23:36 – 24:7; Jeremiah 36:1-3;36:24 – 26
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Happened?Explanation Length
of Reign
JEHOIAKIM
2 Kings 23:36 – 24:7; Jeremiah 36:1-3;36:24 – 26
God sent Babylonian and other
raiders against him and
the people of
Judah.
He followed the sinful ways of
his fathers. He even burned
Jeremiah’s scroll
that containe
d the word of
the Lord.
11 years
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Happened?
Explanation Length of
Reign
JEHOIACHIN
2 Kings 24:8 – 17
Judah’s Quick Downhill SlideJudah’s Quick Downhill SlideKing What
Happened?Explanati
onLength
of Reign
JEHOIACHIN
2 Kings 24:8 – 17
The Babylonians invaded.
They carried off the temple treasures,
the king and the10,000
people in exile to
Babylon.
He followed
in the evil
ways of his
ancestors
3mont
hs
Judah’s Quick Downhill SlideJudah’s Quick Downhill SlideKing What
Happened?
Explanation Length of
Reign
ZEDEKIAH
2 Kings 24:18-20