July 13c

CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE: Northern 10 tribes (commonly referred to as Israel)

Rezin (king of Syria) begins a dual reign with Ben-Hadad lll (king of Syria) and succeeds him, 740 B.C.

Rezin (king of Syria) and Pekah (18th king of Israel) attack Judah, 735 B.C.

2 Kings 15

37  In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

Pekah (18th king of Israel) and Rezin (king of Syria) attack Judah and destroy much

2 Chronicles 28

5  Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

6 ¶  For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

7  And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.

8  And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

 

CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE: Southern 2 tribes(commonly referred to as Judah)

Jotham (11th king of Judah) does much with God’s help

2 Chronicles 27

3  He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

4  Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

5  He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

6  So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

The birth of Hezekiah, 742 B.C., (13th king of Judah), he will be king at age 25. 2 Kings 18:2

Ahaz (12th king of Judah) begins a dual reign with Jotham (11th king of Judah), this will last from 739-732 B.C.

Rezin (king of Syria) and Pekah (18th king of Israel) attack Judah, 735 B.C.

2 Kings 15

37  In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

Jotham (11th king of Judah) dies at 47 in the year 732 B.C.

2 Kings 15

36  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

38  And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 27

7  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

9  And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

Ahaz (12th king of Judah) comes to the throne in the 17th year of Pekah (18th king of Israel). He will reign for 16 years, 732-717 B.C., very bad. He is the 20th generation from Christ.

2 Kings 16

1 ¶  In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2  Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

3  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

4  And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Chronicles 28

1 ¶  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:

2  For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

3  Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

4  He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Pekah (18th king of Israel) and Rezin (king of Syria) attack Judah and destroy much

2 Chronicles 28

5  Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

6 ¶  For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

7  And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.

8  And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

The prophet Isaiah is send by God to encourage Ahaz (12th king of Judah) in spite of his sin, 732 B.C.

Isaiah 7

10 ¶  Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

11  Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

12  But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

13  And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

15  Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

16  For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. 

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