Bible Study Class Outline and Guide for September 30, 2014

             September 30, 2014

The Last Kings of Israel and Judah (l  Kings and 2 Kings )

Tonight: 2 Kings,Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 (October 7, 2014)

We started this quarter on Sept 9 by studying Chapter 9.  Since then we have studied Chapter 10 through 13.  The one constant about all of the kings is they were all killed in office (to be verified).  Another thing we noticed is all of the kings in Israel and Judah  were described as BAD or MOSTLY BAD. 

You may be wondering how can this be true, if they are God's chosen people.  That is a question for the class tonight.

Tonight we are going to follow this outline and engage in more discussion and less reading.

Chapter 14

Amaziah Reigns over Judah

Amaziah was the son of Jo'ash of Judah. He reign for 25 years.  He did good for awhile.  But there were some things he just let be.  What were they?

As soon as he got entrenched in his position, he killed some people. Why?  Was that a good thing to do?

Looking back, did Solomon try to settle some old matters relating to his father, David?

(Relate to present)

He became impatient in office and wanted to fight Israel?  Why did he want to do that?

(Relate to present)

Who was the King of Israel that defeated Amaziah?  You are right.  Now, what did he take from Judah?  (and they suppose to be brothers).

Jeroboam II Reigns over Israel

Jeroboam was the son of Jo'ash of Israel.  He reign for 41 years. He did was evil in the sight of the Lord.

He did some good things. Like what?  Did the good out weigh the bad?  Think of the boy who was bad all day, but gladly brought the wood in for the fire place at night. (What is the point I'm trying to make?)

Despite, their evil ways and deeds God spared them.  Why?

Did somebody kill King Jeroboam II?

Chapter 15 (Present on October 7, 2014)

Azariah Reigns over Judah

He was 16 years old when he became king and he reign for 52 years.

He did what was right, except them folks in the hill kept doing their thing in the hills on Judah's soil. Why didn't he drive them out?

The king was struck with leprous. Then what happened?

He was succeeded by Jotham. We will talk about him later.

Zechariah Reigns over Israel

Zechariah was the son of Jeroboam.  He reigned over Israel for six months.  During his reign he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He was killed in public by Shal'lum son of Jabesh.  Then, Shal'lum became king.  Why did he kill Zechariah?

Read Verse 12.  Remember God's promise to Jehu? What was the promise?

Shal'lum reigned for 1 month, then he was killed by Men'a-hem. 

Men'a-hem ruled for 10 years. He did what was evil in the sight of  Lord.

Why did he kill all the pregnant women?

Why did he give King Pul of Syria lots of money? 

Do we have these kind of things happening today?

After Men'a-hem, the next King was Pekahiah.  He reigned for 2 years.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord.

Pekah, his captain, conspired with 50 others and killed him in the palace.

Then Pekah ruled for 20 years.

Hoshea killed Pekah and he reign for 9 years.

Jotham reigned over Judah for 25 years. 

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