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Kings 13, Jeroboam, Josiah
In
the Northern kingdom, every king was bad. There wasn’t a single good one in the
lot. There were only eight kings on the
southern kingdom over a 200-year period who could be called good. The rest of
them could be called bad kings.
The
two books of Chronicles cover the same ground as the books of Kings with one
difference: In Kings you have man’s viewpoint and in Chronicles you have God’s
viewpoint.
Josiah
was a good king and he reigned thirty-one years. Josiah led in one of the five
great revivals that took place during the period of the kings. These revivals
are not mentioned in Kings but in Chronicles, which gives God’s viewpoint.
Revivals are always from God’s viewpoint.
The
prophet of God prophesied against the altar, saying that God was going to raise
up a man who would destroy such altars. Josiah was that man. Jeroboam was by
the altar when the man of God prophesied. He was making a sacrifice to a golden
calf. When the man of God was finished speaking, Jeroboam put out his hand
against him. Jeroboam’s hand dried up, withered, and became paralyzed. The king
then changes his tune and begs the man of God to ask the Lord that his hand
might be restored. The King’s hand is restored to him, and in appreciation he
offers to take the man of God home with him and reward him. The man of God
refuses but is later deceived by another prophet into disobeying the Lord and
suffered the sad consequences by his death
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Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.
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