1. Amos continued pronouncing God’s judgment on the surrounding nations. He next pronounced judgment on Moab. Moab was judged for desecrating the remains of the king of Edom. This angered the Lord bec(...)
Read1. Amos was not from a priestly family. He was a shepherd from a small, insignificant town called Tekoa, which still exists today under Palestinian control in the West Bank. Amos was not professionall(...)
Read1. Amaziah, king of Judah, started off well. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. After seizing the throne, he tried the assassins of his father, King Joash but did not execute their childre(...)
Read1. Jehoash visited the dying prophet Elisha and paid his respect to him as a father and the strength of Israel. Elisha was about to die but the battle against Aram would still go on. Israel’s future s(...)
Read1. Jehu purged Baal worship but didn’t remove the golden calves. Jehu’s son, Jehoahaz was influenced by his father and did evil by following the wicked way of Jeroboam. God delivered Israel into the h(...)
Read1. Joash became king when he was just 7 years old. Thanks to his spiritual father and adviser Jehoiada, Joash was known as one of the good kings of Judah. Joash listened to Jehoiada and did what was r(...)
Read1. When Athaliah, saw that her son Ahaziah was killed, she acted quickly to destroy the whole royal family and take the throne for herself. It seemed that David’s kingdom was overthrown by a Baal wors(...)
Read1. Jehu seemed to appear to be obedient to the Lord, but then revealed his self-seeking and half-commitment to God. After killing Joram and Jezebel, Jehu confronted the leading men of Samaria either t(...)
Read1. Elisha sent a young prophet to Jehu to anoint him king over Israel and to tell him to strike down the house of Ahab. After the prophet had done as he was told, the army officers rallied under Jehu(...)
Read1. Elisha told a Shunammite woman to leave Israel to escape a seven-year famine. She took her son and did as he told her. After she returned home seven years later, she appealed to the king for her pr(...)
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