They do what is “evil” (36:5, 9, 12); they refuse to “humble” themselves before God (36:12); they harden their hearts to refuse to listen to God’s word through his prophets (36:13). And what was that one seeking? This is the first resurrection. 2 Chronicles 34:1–33 Josiah Reigns in Judah 34 Josiah a was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. But if you focus on the hard cases and organize society on growing cynicism, you foster selfish individualism, faithlessness, irresponsibility, cultural instability, crookedness, and multiplied armies of lawyers. “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left. First, we are afforded a glimpse of what God expects from us if we live in a time of cataclysmic declension: not philosophizing, but self-humbling, transparent repentance, tears, contrition. Get Pastor Josh’s Daily Devotional in your inbox. After Josiah, Judah rapidly declines. 8 But you have turned aside from the way. (2) As do some other prophets (e.g., Ezek. The writer, the “elder” (3 John 1:1), presumably the apostle John, has written to a particular church in his purview, apparently asking that church if it would do what it could to help out some “brothers” (3 John 1:5) who have been sent out on evangelistic ministry. But he reads it to the king, and the king repents (34:19). Read The Lost Word (2 Chronicles 34:15) - Your Daily Bible Verse - July 6 from today's daily devotional. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”. 2:8). 2And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.” 7 The Jews1 answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. (‭1 Chronicles‬ ‭16‬:‭34‬ NLT) No matter where you’re at, No matter what circumstance you’re going through, God is faithful!!!! [6] 2:15 Hebrew in it 33 And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. 12 May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant5 of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts! 16 “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her,10 says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers11 his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. a. Josiah was eight years old when he became king: Unusually, this young boy came to the throne at eight yearsof age. 39 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus5 by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds6 in weight. Within the postexilic covenant community of ancient Israel, some of the worst examples of such faithlessness were bound up with the explicitly religious dimensions of the culture—but not all of them: (1) The lips of the priest should “preserve knowledge” and “from his mouth men should seek instruction—because he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty” (Mal. But until the other day, I’d Shaphan, at any rate, seems not to even know that there is anything particularly special about this book. [5] 19:39 Greek him But because the priests have proved faithless at all this, God will cause them to be despised and humiliated before all the people (Mal. 11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. 34:22) as to how imminent these dangers are. Moreover, he instructs his attendants to inquire of the prophetess Huldah (2 Chron. [1] 20:1 Greek the abyss; also verse 3 Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 2 Chronicles 34 - NIV: Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. 19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. 16, 23), Malachi portrays spiritual apostasy in terms of adultery (Mal. 34:29–31) is enormously moving. 20 Then he gave these orders to Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Acbor son of Micaiah, # 34:20 As in parallel text at 2 Kgs 22:12; Hebrew reads Abdon son of Micah. [2] 34:14 Hebrew by the hand of But God simply does not pay any attention. Let us not think that the young can do nothing for God. 4 Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols. 10 And they gave it to the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD. Josiah is forlorn that these words have been so long ignored, and he realizes that God’s wrath must stand against his people (34:20-21). And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. 28 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king. “It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant” (Mal. “At last, after more than three hundred years, the prophecy of ‘the man of God out of Judah’ is fulfilled (… The Lord’s Battle Devotional 2 Chronicles 20 To cry out earnestly for God’s help, we must know our need for it. Oh, these folk can put on quite a spiritual display, weeping and calling down blessings from God. 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. Seeing how God worship made them different, Israel … Josiah makes a covenant (34:31), keeps the Passover (35:1), and then (as predicted) is killed before disaster comes (35:23-24). And yet, still, with God’s people refusing to do God’s will, there is a pagan king, Cyrus, who will through God’s sovereignty be used to return his people from exile. An idol can be anything that takes our worship away from God. 2 Chronicles records a tumultuous history — seasons of idolatry followed by revival. 9 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. People make commitments and keep them. Spurgeon says in his sermon “The Singing Army” that “one of the most prevailing arguments to be used in prayer with God is a truthful statement of our condition—a confession of our sad estate.” 2:5), convey true instruction (Mal. Think how degraded the worship of God was when The Book, the Word of God, is so neglected that it is shoved in some forgotten corner and only stumbled upon by happenstance. He inquires of a prophetess of God to see what the real situation is and discovers that yes, indeed, disaster is coming (34:24), but because he himself repented and humbled himself, it will not come (34:26-28). 2 Chronicles 34-36,  Psalm 150,  Luke 12:49-59,  2 Thessalonians 3:14-18. Why not? In the midst of the repairs, a book is discovered (34:14-15). So they took Jesus, 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 9 And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven2 and consumed them, 10 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Josiah was eight years old.] Now we return to the same event, this time recorded in 2 Chronicles 34. This was because of the assassination of his father. Study 2 Chronicles 34 using Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images. 5 He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 15 Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan. 34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. [1] 34:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain 38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. [2] 2:3 Or to it 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left. He is always there and Jesus always has his hand upon the situation. 3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring,1 and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.2 4 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts. 28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. [4] 2:7 Hebrew they And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 9 They came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Second, as so often in the Bible, precisely because God is so slow to anger and so forbearing, he is more eager to suspend and delay the judgment that is the necessary correlative of his holiness than we are to beg him for mercy. Verse 1 2 Chronicles 34:1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 12 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. 2 Chronicles 16:1–17:1 Matthew Henry comments, “God governs the world in infinite wisdom, and the creatures, and all their actions, are continually under his eye.” We who are servants of the Lord should take great comfort from this, for it means the Lord cannot fail to see our faithfulness. [9] 2:15 Or So take care; also verse 16 Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. [1] 19:7 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38 He is protected from experiencing it himself. 36 For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 37 And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”. (1) Jehoshaphat’s unwise alliance with Ahab. So he came and took away his body. However, the Lord adds, “Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you” (2 Chron. Jehoshaphat ’ s unwise alliance with Ahab because of the first, and he reigned thirty-one years [ 2 34:14. Scripture with full outline and Verse meaning Matthew Henry ’ s Bible Commentary ( concise to! 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