His Words Are Life

2 Kings 23:3 To 2 Kings 25:15

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00:16 Hello, and welcome to His Words are Life.
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you for joining with me today
00:20 to read in 2nd Kings. Before we start, let's pray together.
00:25 Dear God, thank you again for an opportunity to come and to hear
00:30 your word. May it be not just something that we spend
00:35 15 minutes listening to and walk away and forget about;
00:40 but may it be something that the Holy Spirit plants in our
00:43 hearts, that changes our lives and allows us to be more useful
00:47 to you and a blessing to others. We love you so much and thank
00:51 you for loving us. Amen. We're reading in 2nd Kings,
00:55 chapter 23, beginning in verse 3, and this is
00:59 the King James Version. And the king stood by a pillar,
01:04 and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord,
01:08 and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his
01:11 statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform
01:16 the words of this covenant that were written in this book.
01:18 And all the people stood to the covenant. And the king commanded
01:23 Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order,
01:26 and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of
01:29 the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the
01:32 grove and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them
01:35 without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes
01:39 of them unto Bethel. And he put down the idolatrous priests,
01:44 whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense
01:47 in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places
01:50 round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal,
01:55 to the sun, and to moon and unto the planets, and to all the host
01:57 of heaven. And he brought out the grove from the house of the
02:01 Lord, without Jerusalem unto the brook Kidron, and burned it
02:04 at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the
02:08 powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
02:11 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the
02:15 house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the
02:19 grove. And he brought all the priests out of the cities of
02:22 Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests
02:25 had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the
02:28 high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the
02:32 gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's
02:35 left hand at the gate of the city. Nevertheless the priests
02:40 of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in
02:43 Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among
02:46 their brethren. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley
02:50 of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his
02:53 daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. And he took away
02:58 the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun,
03:00 at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber
03:04 of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs,
03:07 and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. And the altars
03:11 that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz,
03:13 which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which
03:16 Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord,
03:19 did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence,
03:23 and cast the dust of them into the brook of Kidron.
03:27 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were
03:31 on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon
03:34 the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination
03:38 of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the
03:42 Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of
03:45 Ammon, did the king defile. And he brake in pieces the images,
03:49 and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the
03:54 bones of men. Moreover the altar that was at Bethel,
03:58 and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
04:00 who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar
04:04 and the high place, he brake down, and burned the high place,
04:08 and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
04:12 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres
04:16 that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones
04:20 out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar,
04:22 and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which
04:25 the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
04:28 Then he said, What title is that, that I see?
04:33 And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the
04:37 man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these
04:40 things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
04:42 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones.
04:46 So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet
04:50 that came out of Samaria, and all the houses also of the high
04:54 places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of
04:57 Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away,
05:01 and did to them according to all the acts that he had done
05:04 in Bethel. And he slew all the priests of the high places
05:08 that were there upon the altars and burned men's bones upon them
05:12 and returned to Jerusalem. And the king commanded all the
05:16 people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God,
05:19 as it is written in the book of this covenant.
05:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days
05:26 of the judges that judged Israel nor in all the days of the kings
05:29 of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; but in the 18th year
05:34 of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord
05:38 in Jerusalem. Moreover the workers with familiar spirits,
05:42 and the wizards, and the images. and the idols, and all the
05:46 abominations that were spied in the land of Judah
05:48 and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform
05:53 the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah
05:57 the priest found in the house of the Lord. And like unto him
06:01 was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord
06:05 with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might
06:10 according to all the law of Moses; neither after him
06:14 arose there any like him. Notwithstanding the Lord turned
06:18 not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger
06:22 was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations
06:25 that Manasseh had provoked him withal. And the Lord said,
06:29 I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed
06:33 Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have
06:37 chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
06:39 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,
06:44 are they not written in the book of the chronicles
06:46 of the kings of Judah? In his days Pharaoh-nechoh
06:51 king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river
06:55 Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew
06:58 him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. And his servants
07:02 carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him
07:05 to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre.
07:08 And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
07:11 and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
07:15 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign
07:19 and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's
07:23 name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
07:26 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,
07:30 according to all that his fathers had done.
07:32 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of
07:37 Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land
07:41 to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver,
07:43 and a talent of gold. And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim
07:48 the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father,
07:52 and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz
07:55 away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. And Jehoiakim gave
08:00 the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land
08:03 to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh:
08:06 he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land,
08:10 of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh-
08:14 necho. Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began
08:18 to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
08:21 And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah
08:26 of Rumah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
08:29 Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
08:32 We're continuing to read in 2nd Kings, chapter 24.
08:36 And this is the King James Version.
08:38 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up,
08:43 and Jehoiakin became his servant three years: then he turned and
08:47 rebelled against him. And the Lord sent against him bands of
08:51 Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the
08:54 Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent
08:57 them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the
08:59 Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
09:01 Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah,
09:06 to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
09:09 according to all that he did; And also for the innocent blood
09:13 that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood;
09:16 which the Lord would not pardon. Now the rest of the acts of
09:21 Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book
09:23 of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? So Jehoiakim slept
09:27 with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
09:31 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land:
09:35 for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt
09:38 to the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
09:41 Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he began to reign, and he
09:44 reigned in Jerusalem 3 months. And his mother's name was
09:47 Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
09:50 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,
09:54 according to all that his father had done. At that time
09:57 the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against
10:00 Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. And Nebuchadnezzar
10:05 king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did
10:07 besiege it. And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the
10:11 king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants,
10:14 and his princes, and his officers: and the king of
10:18 Babylon took him in the 8th year of his reign.
10:21 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of
10:25 the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in
10:28 pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel
10:31 had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
10:35 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes,
10:39 and all the mighty men of valor, even 10,000 captives, and all
10:44 the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort
10:49 of the people of the land. And he carried away Jehoiachin
10:52 to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives,
10:56 and his officers, and the mighty of the land,
10:59 those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
11:03 And all the men of might, even 7,000, and craftsmen and smiths
11:09 a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them
11:14 the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
11:17 And the king of Babylon made Nattaniah his father's brother
11:22 king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
11:26 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign
11:31 and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
11:35 was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
11:38 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,
11:41 according to all that Jehoiachim had done. For through the anger
11:46 of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he
11:50 had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled
11:54 against the king of Babylon. We're reading in 2nd Kings,
11:59 chapter 25, and this is the King James Version.
12:02 And it came to pass in the 9th year of his reign, in the 10th
12:07 month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar
12:11 king of Babylon came, he and all his host, against Jerusalem,
12:16 and pitched against it: and they built forts against it round
12:20 about. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
12:25 Zedekiah. And on the 9th day of the 4th month the famine
12:30 prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of
12:32 the land. And the city was broken up, and all the men of
12:36 war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls,
12:39 which is by the king's garden: now the Chaldees were against
12:43 the city round about: and the king went the way toward the
12:47 plain. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king,
12:51 and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army
12:55 were scattered from him. So they took the king and brought
12:58 him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah and they gave judgment
13:02 upon him. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes
13:06 and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with fetters of
13:10 brass, and carried him to Babylon. And in the 5th month,
13:15 on the 7th day of the month, which is the 19th year of king
13:18 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the
13:24 guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
13:27 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house,
13:31 and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house
13:35 burnt he with fire. And all the army of the Chaldees, that were
13:39 with the captain of the guard brake down the walls of
13:42 Jerusalem round about. Now the rest of the people that were
13:45 left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away
13:48 to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude,
13:52 did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
13:56 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
14:00 to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
14:03 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord,
14:06 and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the
14:09 Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass
14:12 of them to Babylon. And the pots and the shovels, and the
14:15 snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
14:18 wherewith they ministered, took they away. And the firepans,
14:23 and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold,
14:26 and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
14:30 Thank you for joining with me today, to read the story
14:34 from 2nd kings. Please join me again next time. Goodbye.


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