Daily Devotional

Jehoahaz king of Judah under Egyptverses 1-4

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah

and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem

Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign

and he reigned THREE MONTHS in Jerusalem

      and the king of Egypt put him down in Jerusalem

      and … Read More

Josiah sets up the Passover celebrationverses 1-4

Moreover Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem

and they killed the Passover

on the fourteenth day of the first month

And he set the priests in their charges

and encouraged them to the  service of

the house of the LORD

And said to the Levites that TAUGHT all Israel… Read More

Josiah did right in sight of the LORDverses 1-2

Josiah was eight years old [8 years old] when he began to reign

and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years

      and he did that which was RIGHT in the sight of the LORD

                  and he WALKED in the ways of David his father

                              and he declined … Read More

Manasseh sets up worship of false godsverses 1-3

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign

and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem

BUT he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD

                  like unto the abominations of the heathen

                              whom the LORD had cast out before the

                                          children of Israel

FOR … Read More

Hezekiah prepares Jerusalem for invasionverses 1-4

After these things and the establishment thereof

Sennacherib – king of Assyria came – and entered into Judah

      and encamped against the fenced cities

                  and thought to win them for himself

And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come

and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem

      he took counsel with his … Read More

Revival caused destruction of false godsverse 1

Now when all this finished

all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah

      and brake the images in pieces – and cut down the groves

                  and threw down the high places and the altars out of

                              all Judah and Benjamin

                                          in Ephraim also and Manasseh

                                                      until they had … Read More

Hezekiah invites all to celebrate Passoververses 1-3

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah

and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh

      that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem

                  to keep the Passover to the LORD God of Israel

For the king had taken counsel – and his princes

and all the congregation… Read More

Hezekiah pleases the LORDverses 1-2

Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old

and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem

      and his mother’s name was Abijah

the daughter of Zechariah

and he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD

      according to all that David his father had done

Hezekiah … Read More

Ahaz did evil in the sight of the LORDverses 1-4

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign

and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem

BUT he did NOT that which was right in the

sight of the LORD like David his father

FOR he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel

and made also … Read More