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Asa Asa became the third king of Judah after the split of Solomon’s empire into independent kingdoms. Asa succeeded his father, Abijah, after Abijah’s brief kingship (913–910 BC) and reigned for 41 years (910–869 BC). In the beginning of his...
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Manasseh Manasseh, the thirteenth king of Judah (697–642 BC), had a long but notoriously wicked reign (2 Kgs 21:1-18; 2 Chr 33:1-9)—even though his father was the godly king Hezekiah (2 Kgs 20:21). In 697 BC, Manasseh became co-ruler with...
Uzziah Uzziah, son of Amaziah and Jecoliah, reigned over Judah for 52 years (792–740 BC; see 2 Kgs 14:21-22; 15:1-2; 2 Chr 26:1-3). He reigned as co-regent with his father from the age of sixteen for approximately 25 years. Later,...
Jehoshaphat Jehoshaphat succeeded his father Asa to become the fourth king of Judah (872–848 BC). Like Hezekiah and Josiah after him, Jehoshaphat trusted the Lord throughout his life and worked to remove most forms of pagan worship from Israel (2 Chr 17:6).
For thirty years, under the guardianship of the High Priest Jehoiada, the king remained faithful to his conscience and duty.
The hereditary monarchy secured peaceful succession but never guaranteed continuity of godly policy.
He acted with decisive speed, beginning reforms in his first month, calling the priests to immediate work.
Yet when the king summoned the priests to execute this noble purpose, a striking contrast emerged: the eager sovereign confronted by sluggards.
Outnumbered, outmaneuvered, surrounded by Jeroboam's forces, they possessed no tactical advantage.
The king received a narrow escape when Jeroboam's schism drove faithful priests and worshippers southward, strengthening his kingdom.
When the prophet of Elohim commanded him to dismiss his Israelite mercenaries, the king's immediate protest was not 'Is this right?' but 'What about the hundred talents of silver I have already paid?' He made consequences his first question when...
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In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before a small congregation in Loughor and made a simple plea:...
The king did not separate religious and civil reform—in a theocracy where Yahweh was King, such division was impossible.
Maclaren observes that while the young king commanded Judah to 'seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law,' he could not actually make them obey.
In the early 1980s, a young American named Paul Farmer traveled to Cange, Haiti — a village perched on the central plateau, so poor and...
In the autumn of 1857, a quiet businessman named Jeremiah Lanphier reserved a room on the third floor of the Old Dutch Church on Fulton...
In the coal mines of South Wales in 1904, pit ponies hauled carts through tunnels so narrow that miners guided them with a steady stream...
In 2003, Dr. Elena Vasquez stood in an operating room at Johns Hopkins, her hands trembling over a seven-year-old boy whose tumor had wrapped itself...
In 2007, pediatric surgeon Dr. Catherine Musau stood in a poorly lit operating room in Kijabe, Kenya, staring at a newborn with a congenital defect...
God of all nations, our country is divided. Left vs right. Us vs them. Fear vs fear. We've forgotten we're neighbors, that we're made in Your image— all of us. Heal our brokenness. Soften our hardened hearts.
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