1 KINGS Chapter 15
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1 KINGS Chapter 15
SLIDE 1 “1 KINGS CHAPTER 15”
Recap Chapter 14
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Abijah was a young man when he became fatally ill (his father reigned for twenty-two years), and, of course, the king was concerned lest there be no son to succeed him on the throne. Jeroboam could not turn to his false gods for help; he had to turn to the prophet Ahijah for guidance.
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This was the prophet who first told Jeroboam that he would be the new king. The king dared not go himself; he sent his wife in a disguise. But the blind prophet could see more with his spiritual eyes than Jeroboam could see with his physical eyes.
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Ahijah exposed the disguise and sent the wicked king a message of judgment. The message came true: the queen returned home, and, when she entered the house, her son died.
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It is tragic that Jeroboam turned away from the Lord, for he could have led the ten tribes into wonderful blessing and victory. Instead, he set a terrible example for other kings to follow.
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Rehoboam - For seventeen years, this evil son of Solomon led the people into terrible sins. Instead of walking in the laws of the Lord, he patterned himself after the wicked nations Israel had defeated. God punished him by bringing Egypt up to defeat the nation.
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The people had lost their spiritual values: the expensive gold shields were now replaced with cheaper bronze shields. Things “looked the same,” but God knew they were not the same.
Keep in mind I felt the Lord wanting us to go through Kings to have a better understanding of the Babylon exile
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1 Abijam began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel. 2 He reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah, the granddaughter of Absalom.
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3 He committed the same sins as his father before him, and he was not faithful to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been. 4 But for David’s sake, the Lord his God allowed his descendants to continue ruling, shining like a lamp, and he gave Abijam a son to rule after him in Jerusalem.
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5 For David had done what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight and had obeyed the Lord’s commands throughout his life, except in the affair concerning Uriah the Hittite.
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6 There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam throughout Abijam’s reign. 7 The rest of the events in Abijam’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. There was constant war between Abijam and Jeroboam. 8 When Abijam died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Asa became the next king.
Abijam (15:1–8).“Like father, like son.” God allowed him to reign only three short years. Note that his mother was related to Absalom (“Abishalom” in v. 2). He declared war on Jeroboam (read 2 Chron. 13), and God gave him victory for David’s sake. The victory was purely military; there was no spiritual revival in the nation.
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9 Asa began to rule over Judah in the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel. 10 He reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother was Maacah, the granddaughter of Absalom.
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11 Asa did what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight, as his ancestor David had done. 12 He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.
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13 He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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14 Although the pagan shrines were not removed, Asa’s heart remained completely faithful to the Lord throughout his life. 15 He brought into the Temple of the Lord the silver and gold and the various items that he and his father had dedicated.
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16 There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel. 17 King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from entering or leaving King Asa’s territory in Judah.
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18 Asa responded by removing all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Temple of the Lord and the royal palace. He sent it with some of his officials to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus, along with this message:
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19 “Let there be a treaty between you and me like the one between your father and my father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will leave me alone.”
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20 Ben-hadad agreed to King Asa’s request and sent the commanders of his army to attack the towns of Israel. They conquered the towns of Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Kinnereth, and all the land of Naphtali. 21 As soon as Baasha of Israel heard what was happening, he abandoned his project of fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.
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22 Then King Asa sent an order throughout Judah, requiring that everyone, without exception, help to carry away the building stones and timbers that Baasha had been using to fortify Ramah. Asa used these materials to fortify the town of Geba in Benjamin and the town of Mizpah.
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23 The rest of the events in Asa’s reign—the extent of his power, everything he did, and the names of the cities he built—are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. In his old age his feet became diseased. 24 When Asa died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.
Then Jehoshaphat, Asa’s son, became the next king.
Asa (15:9–24).Read 2 Chron. 14–16. Asa was a good king, a welcome change after years of evil rulers. He tried to take away the sins established by Rehoboam (14:24). There was a brief period of rest and revival under his leadership. He even deposed his own mother because she was an idol worshiper (2 Chron. 15:16). Sad to say, his reign did not end as well as it began, for he trusted in men for protection and failed to trust in the Lord. He used the temple wealth to hire Syria to fight for him; and this ungodly alliance cost him much personally.
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25 Nadab son of Jeroboam began to rule over Israel in the second year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Israel two years. 26 But he did what was evil in the Lord’s sight and followed the example of his father, continuing the sins that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit.
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27 Then Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, plotted against Nadab and assassinated him while he and the Israelite army were laying siege to the Philistine town of Gibbethon. 28 Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of King Asa’s reign in Judah, and he became the next king of Israel.
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29 He immediately slaughtered all the descendants of King Jeroboam, so that not one of the royal family was left, just as the Lord had promised concerning Jeroboam by the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh. 30 This was done because Jeroboam had provoked the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, by the sins he had committed and the sins he had led Israel to commit.
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31 The rest of the events in Nadab’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
32 There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel.
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33 Baasha son of Ahijah began to rule over all Israel in the third year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. Baasha reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years. 34 But he did what was evil in the Lord’s sight and followed the example of Jeroboam, continuing the sins that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit.
Baasha reigned for twenty-four years and fulfilled the prophecy of 14:14–15 that all of Jeroboam’s seed would be destroyed.
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SLIDE 27 “KING ASA SMASHING IDOLS”
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