Kings of the Divided Kingdom. I kings 15

 

I Kings 15- Kings of the Divided Kingdom

 

Every time a king is mentioned, his mother is also mentioned. It is because each mother had a great deal to do with influencing the life of her son. Every time we have a bad king, his mother’s name is given. If he was a good king, his mother’s name was also given. She will get credit for that.

Abijam walked in all the sins of his father – he followed his father’s pattern. Abijam was not brought up in a good home. He was a rotten, corrupt king, and his father and mother are responsible to a certain degree. “His heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as his heart of David his father.” David had become the standard for these kings. The line of David never ends until

you come to the Lord Jesus Christ. David did not turn aside from anything that God commanded except in the matter of Uriah the Hitite. In every other matter he obeyed God. David did not live in sin. The King of Babylon did. What David did one time, the king of Babylon did every day.

This was a time of civil strife. It was a time of brother fighting against brother, and it seriously weakened the kingdom.

Abijam did nothing outstanding during his reign. He was buried with his fathers. Asa was the first good king. He reigned during the last two years of Jeroboam’s reign. Asa reigned for forty-one years. He had one of the longest reigns of any king. The only two kings who reigned longer than Asa were Azariah and Manasseh.

Asa did not go for the idea that we should be soft on homosexuals. He was opposed to it. God gives up any people who have a permissive society, openly allowing homosexuality. It is a mark of gross degradation; we are going down as a nation. We need to recognize it as a sin. Asa dealt with the problem, and he is called a good king. God has not changed His mine on this issue at all. Asa sent Ben-hadad presents of God and silver to appease him. To keep him from invading his kingdom. Asa made a treaty with him. This is the one thing that he did that was wrong.

Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned in the second year of Asa, King of Judah. Nadab ruled for two years over Israel.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.