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• 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

Review Chronology

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

Neo - Babylonian Empire

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’s Threat to All Judah

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

Schematic Map of Jerusalem

• City of David• Gihon Spring• Hezekiah’s Tunnel

Hezekiah’s defenses

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 TorahDiscovery – HilkiahInterpretation - Huldah

Covenant renewalPurging Temple, its precincts, Jerusalem and the LandFulfillment of the prophecy made at BethelCelebrating 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