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Sunday, June 07, 2026

2 Kings 16-18 - Hezekiah Reigns over Judah

Ahaz Reigns over Judah

2Ki 16:11 LSB - [11] So Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, thus Urijah the priest made [it], before the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.

Hoshea Reigns over Israel


Israel Exiled to Assyria


Israel Rejects Yahweh

2Ki 17:20 LSB - [20] So Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His presence.

Exiled Men in the Cities of Samaria

2Ki 17:41 LSB - [41] So while these nations were fearing Yahweh, they also were serving their graven images; their children likewise and their grandchildren, as their fathers acted, so they are acting [this way] to this day.

Hezekiah Reigns over Judah

2Ki 18:2-6 LSB - 
[2] He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. 
[3] And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. [4] He took away the high places and shattered the [sacred] pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel were burning incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan. 
[5] He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among those] who were before him. 
[6] So he clung to Yahweh; he did not turn away from following Him, but kept His commandments, which Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Hezekiah Prospers


Sennacherib Comes Up Against Judah

2Ki 18:16 LSB - [16] At that time Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of Yahweh and [from] the doorposts, which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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