July 17c

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

—–Read with 1 in the South—–

Pekah (18th king of Israel) is killed by Hoshea (19th king of Israel) in 729 B.C. Hoshea is the final king of Israel.

2 Kings 15

31  And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

30  And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

Hoshea (19th king of Israel) comes to the throne in the 12th year of Ahaz (12th king of Judah). Hoshea will reign for 9 years, 729-721 B.C., all bad.

2 Kings 17

1 ¶  In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

2  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

The king of Assyria, Tiglath-Pileser lll, is replaced by Shalmaneser V in 727 B.C.

Isaiah announces judgement upon Israel, 727 B.C.

Isaiah 28

1 ¶  Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

2  Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3  The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

4  And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

5  In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

6  And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

7  But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

8  For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

9 ¶  Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11  For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

12  To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

13  But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

14 ¶  Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15  Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

17  Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

 

 

 

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

Isaiah warns Judah of coming judgement

Isaiah 1

2 ¶  Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

3  The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

4  Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

5  Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6  From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

7  Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

8  And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

9  Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 ¶  Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

11  To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

12  When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

13  Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

14  Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

15  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

16 ¶  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

17  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20  But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

21 ¶  How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

22  Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24  Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

25  And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

26  And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27  Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

28  And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

29  For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

30  For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

31  And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

Ahaz (12th king of Judah) goes to Damascus and comes home with an idol

2 Kings 16

10 ¶  And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

11  And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

12  And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

13  And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

14  And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

15  And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.

16  Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

17 ¶  And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.

18  And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

—–Read with 1 in the North—–

2 Chronicles 28

20  And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

21  For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

22  And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

23  For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

24  And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

25  And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

Hezekiah (13th king of Judah) comes to the throne in the 3rd year of Hoshea (19th king of Israel). Hezekiah will reign for 29 years, 727-698 B.C., all very good. He is the 19th generation from Christ.

Hezekiah (13th king of Judah) has a dual reign with Ahaz (12th king of Judah) from 727-717 B.C.

2 Kings 18

1 ¶  Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

2  Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

4  He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

5  He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

6  For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

Hezekiah (13th king of Judah) has the Temple cleansed and reconsecrated, Apr 1-16, 726 B.C.

2 Chronicles 29

3  He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

4  And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

5  And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

6  For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

7  Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

8  Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

9  For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

10  Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

11  My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.

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