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https://calvarychapelanaheimhills.com/Covid19.htm “Jehoash’s Partial Obedience” 2 Kings 13:1-25 5/10/20

Today, we’d like to see the title of ”Jehoash’s Partial Obedience” in the book of 2 Kings 13:1-25

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Q1. In verse 6 “Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the wooden image also remained in ,” what does it mean in the context? And what can we learn from here? Q2. In verse 14, “ had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, “O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!” what can we observe from Elisha, Joash, and Israel? And what can we learn from here? Q3. In verses 18-19, “ Then he said, “Take the arrows”; so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped. 19 And the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! But now you will strike Syria only three times,” what do these mean? And how can we apply these to our life? (Background for Daily Bible Reading and Studying Weekly Book Basis)

In the last time, Joash the king of Judah the southern kingdom (the 2nd column of the following table) began to be a good king while Jehoiada the high priest was alive. But after his death, Joash the king killed his son Zechariah and allowed people to worship idols on high places in 2 Chronicles 24:20-21 “Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He also has forsaken you.’ ” 21 So they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.”

And so Joash the king of Judah the southern kingdom was assassinated by his servants in 2 Kings 12:21 “For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him. So he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.”

Now we’re moving into the Northern Kingdom Israel (the 1st column of the following table). In Israel, there were no good kings because they worshipped idols.

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Time Order (#) of the Kings and the Prophets1

# Israel’s Reign # Judah’s Rei # Prophets Reference (Bible; Kings) Kings Period Kings gn (Life2) (Reference) (reference) Peri od 1 Jeroboam (1 931- 1 Rehoboam 931- 1 1 Ki 15-24 Jehoshapat Ki 12:25-33) 910 (1 Ki 11:43) 913 (875-850) ; 1 Ki 16:28

2 Nadab 910- 2 Abijam (1 Ki 913- 2 Elisha 1 Ki 22:50 Jehoram (1 Ki 14:20; 909 14:31) 911 (850-800) 15:25) 3 Baasha (1 909- 3 Asa3 (1 Ki 911- 7 2 Ki 15:7 Jotham Ki 15:16, 28) 886 15:8) 870 (745-695) 4 Elah (1 Ki 886- 4 Jehoshaph 870- 11 Jeremiah4 2 Ki 23:34 [Eliakim] 16:6) 885 at (1 Ki 848 (626-586) 15:24) 5 Zimri (1 Ki 885 5 Jehoram5 848- 16:11) (1 Ki 22:50) 841 Tibni (1 Ki 885- 6 Ahaziah (2 841 16:21) 880 Ki 8:24) 6 (1 Ki 880- Athaliah6 (2 841- 15 Ezekiel conquered Judah 16:16) 874 Ki 11:1) 835 (592-570)

7 Ahab7 (1 Ki 874- 7 Joash (2 Ki 835- 14 Daniel 16:28) 853 11:21) 796 (606-534) 8 Ahaziah (1 853- 8 Amaziah (2 796- 6 Hosea 2 Ki 15:7 Jotham Ki 22:40) 852 Ki 12:21) 767 (760-720) 9 Jehoram8 (2 852- 9 Azariah 767- 3 Joel (840- 2 Ki 11:21 Joash Ki 1:17) 841 [] (2 740 830) Ki 14:21; 2 Ch 26) 10 (2 Ki 841- 10 Jotham (2 740- 5 Amos 2 Ki 15:7 Jotham 9:13) 814 Ki 15:7; 2 736 (780-740) Ch 27) 11 Jehoahaz (2 814- 11 (2 Ki 736- 13 Obadia 2 Ki 24:17 Ki 10:35; 798 15:38; 2 Ch 716 (586 - ?) 13:1) 28) 12 Jehoash (2 798- 12 716- 4 2 Ki 14:21 Azariah [Uzziah] Ki 13:9) 782 (2 Ki 16:20; 687 (790-770) 2 Ch 29) 13 Jeroboam II 782- 13 Manasseh 687- 8 Micah 2 Ki 15:38 Ahaz (2 Ki 14:16) 753 (2 Ki 20:21; 642 (740-700) 2 Ch 33)

1 Joseph P. Free and Howard F. Vos, “Archaeology and Bible History,” (Michigan; ZondervanPublishingHouse, 1950). 2 Henry H. Halley, “Halley’s Bible Handbook” (Michigan: Zondervan, 1965). 3 Boldfaced lettered Kings are the good kings who generally obeyed the Lord. 4 He also wrote the book of “Lamentations.” 5 Ahab’s son-in-law 6 Ahaziah’s mother, Ahab’s daughter (2 Ki 8:18, 26) 7 , his wife, and , his daughter, who married Jehoram, the 5th Judah’s King, whose father was , the 4th Judah’s King who was good. 8 Jehoram, the 9th Israel’s king, was killed with Ahaziah, the 6th Judah’s King, by Jehu (2 Ki 9:21-27).

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14 Zechariah (2 753- 14 Amon (2 Ki 642- 10 Nahum 2 Ki 23:30 Jehoahaz Ki 14:29; 752 21:18) 640 (630-610) 15:8) 15 Shallum (2 752 15 (2 640- 12 Habakkuk 2 Ki 24:6 Jehoiachin Ki 15:10) Ki 21:24) 609 (606-586) 16 (2 752- 16 Jehoahaz 609 9 Zephania 2 Ki 21:24 Josiah Ki 15:14) 742 [Shallum]9 h (639- (2 Ki 23:30) 608) 17 Pekhiah (2 742- 17 Jehoiakim 609- 16 Haggai Persia conquered Babylon: (1) return from the Ki 15:22) 740 [Eliakim] (2 597 (520-516) captivity: Joshua & Zerubbabel (536-516) (2) Ki 23:34) Temple rebuilt: Ezra (457-430) & Nehemiah 18 (2 Ki 740- 18 Jeohoiachin 597 16 Zechariah (444-432) 15:25) 732 [] (520-516) (2 Ki 24:6; Jer 24:1) 19 (2 732- 19 Zedekiah (2 597- 18 Malachi Ki 15:30) 722 Ki 24:17) 586 (450-400) Source: Wayne Kim, “Solus Spiritus Sanctus For the perfect reformation,” (California: CCAH Press®, 2019).

Text: NKJV [KJV] Explanation

th 1 1= the 23 year of Joash (See “the time order of kings,” In the twenty-third year of Joash the son above – Italicized names of kings sated in this chapter); of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah (So, Joash the 7th king of Judah, whose father was the 6th king Ahaziah. son of Jehu became king over Israel in Athaliah was his grandmother) ; Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel (Jehoahaz the 11th king Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. succeeded from Jehu the 10th king in Israel); in Samaria (Samaria, the 6 miles or 10 km away from Shechem, was the capital city of Israel); reigned 17 years (ruled 17 years). 2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, 2= …did evil in the sight of the Lord….followed the sins of Jeroboam….who had made Israel sin (Jeroboam the and followed the sins of Jeroboam the 1st king of Israel made 2 calves of gold in Dan and and made people worship the golden calves the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin. idols on 8/15 every year 1 Kings 12:2810) ; He did not He did not depart from them. depart from them (Jehoahaz the 11th king did not depart from the sins to worship the idols, that Israel people followed him. He was a bad example) 3 Then the anger of the LORD was 3= the anger of the Lord was aroused against aroused against Israel, and He delivered Israel…He delivered them into the hand of king of Syria (Because of the idol worship, God allowed them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria to invade into Israel by Hazael king); and into the Syria, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael, at their days (continually into Ben-Hadad his son --- Often we see a the son of Hazael, all their days. same name for different persons. Here is the 1st case of Ben-Hadad name. He was a former king before Hazael, but Hazael assassinated his former king, naming his son as the name of his former king :7-8, 14-15 11)

9 Josiah’s decedents – Jehoiachin the king, his grandson, and the other three (3) kings, his sons. 10 1 Kings 12:28 Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to . Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!” 11 2 Kings 8:7-8, 14-15”7 Then Elisha went to , and Ben-Hadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, “The man of God has come here.” 8 And the king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ” 14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He told me you would surely recover.” 15 But it happened on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water,

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4= So Jehoahaz pleaded with the Lord, and the Lord 4 So Jehoahaz pleaded with the LORD, listened to him; He saw the oppression of Israel because the king of Syria oppressed them (Because of and the LORD listened to him; for He saw Israelites’ oppression from the Syrians’ invasion or trouble, he as the king asked God -- instead of the the oppression of Israel, because the king golden calves the idols -- to deliver Israel from the oppression. But the Lord listened to him because our of Syria oppressed them. God is a God of mercy, long suffering, gracious, & love, as well as of justice.) 5 Then the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, 5= Then, the Lord gave Israel a deliverer … they so that they escaped from under the hand escaped from under the hand of the Syrians… the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before (the Lord of the Syrians; and the children of Israel allowed the deliverer who was his son – see verse 25 – dwelt in their tents as before. they went home) 6=Q1 Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of 6 Nevertheless they did not depart from the house of Jeroboam (they worshipped the golden calves the idols); and the wooden image also remained the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who in Samaria (the wooden image was Ashtoreth the goddess of fertility; in addition, they worshipped the had made Israel sin, but walked in licentious idol 1 Kings 11:512 -- his occasional call for help to God, instead of idols, caused that God delayed them; and the wooden image also His judgment on Israel and gave an opportunity to remained in Samaria. repent or to turn back from the idols to God in full because our God is merciful, longsuffering, gracious, or love. But his restarting idol worship caused the judgment in the following verse 7, because our God is a God of justice. It’s lessoned that we need a daily life of 7 For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only trust in God or daily life of commitment to God.) fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten 7= (God allowed Jehoahaz only 50 horsemen, 10 chariots, and 10,000 infantrymen because the king of thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria destroyed all the other things like the blown up dust) Syria had destroyed them and made

them like the dust at threshing.

8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, all 8= …the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz…in the book of that he did, and his might, are they not the chronicles of the kings of Israel? (Yes in the book of 2 kings) written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Israel? 9= Jehoahaz rested with his fathers (he died)…buried him in Samaria (he was buried in Samaria); Then Joash 9 So Jehoahaz rested with his fathers, his son reigned in his place (Here is the 2nd case of a same name for different persons – Joash the 12th king and they buried him in Samaria. of Israel as the son of Jehoahaz, also called Jehoash Then Joash his son reigned in his place. “Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz” in the next verse 10, was not the 7th good king of Judah)

and spread it over his face so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.” 12 1 Kings 11:5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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10 10= In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king (the reign of Joash the king of Judah left only 3 years of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz because he reigned for 40 years in Jerusalem 2 Kings 11:21; 2 Kings 12:113); Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, and became king over Israel (Jehoash also called as Joash became the 12th king of Israel) reigned sixteen years. 11= he did evil ….not depart from all the sins of 11 Jeroboam…but walked in them (Jehoash also And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. worshipped the golden calves the idols – made by He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the 1st king of Israel – and Israelites followed him. He was a bad example.) Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made 12= Now the rest of the acts of Joash (or Israel sin, but walked in them. 12 Now the Jehoash)….which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah (Amaziah was the 8th king of Judah)…not written rest of the acts of Joash, all that he did, in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? (Yes and his might with which he fought against in the books of 2 kings & 2 Chronicles) 13= Then Jeroboam sat on his throne (Jeroboam his Amaziah king of Judah, are they not son was Jeroboam II the 13th king of Israel, not the 1st written in the book of the chronicles of the king of Israel); And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel (Joash or Jehoash was dead and kings of Israel? 13 So Joash rested with buried in Samaria :1614) his fathers. Then Jeroboam sat on his 14= Q2 Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die (See “the time order of Prophets,” throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria above; Elisha the prophet ministered for 50 years. God doesn’t always heal but one day we can get sick and with the kings of Israel. die in His sovereignty, like Elisha. We as Christians should live by faith to be with the Lord forever by either 14 Elisha had become sick with the illness death or rapture 2 Cor 5:1-815); Joash ..came down to him (Joash visited on him); wept over his face (he wept of which he would die. Then Joash the over Elisha’s face); said “O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!” (“the chariots of king of Israel came down to him, and Israel and their horsemen” implies the strength of Israel; wept over his face, and said, “O my this statement of Joash cited from Elisha’s statement to Elijah who had gone up by a whirlwind into heaven in 2 father, my father, the chariots of Israel Kings 2:11-1216; Here, Joash the king recognized that Elisha the prophet’s full obedience to God was a good and their horsemen!” example to the people of Israel to be strong, but he did not recognize (1) that as not only a prophet but also a king his full obedience to God would cause the strength of Israel too and (2) that the strength was ascribed to God, not to Elisha or any other creatures James 5:1717)

13 2 Kings 11:21 Jehoash was seven years old when he became king; 2 Kings 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba 14 2 Kings 14:16So Jehoash rested with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Then Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. 15 2 Cor 5:1-8For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. 16 :11-12Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces 17 James 5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months 5

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15 And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow 15-17 = Take a bow and some arrows…Open the east and some arrows.” So he took himself a window…Shoot, and he shot…. The arrow of the LORD’s deliverance and the arrow of deliverance bow and some arrows. 16 Then he said to from Syria (the arrow is the symbol of God’s deliverance from Syria , i.e., Israel’s recovery from the the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the territories invaded by Syria); you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them (until you have bow.” So he put his hand on it, and Elisha destroyed the Syrians at Aphek in the east side of put his hands on the king’s hands. 17 And , IN FULL, Joash must strike them) he said, “Open the east window”; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot”; and he shot. And he said, “The arrow of the LORD’s deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them.” 18 Then he said, “Take 18=Q3 Strike the ground……..he struck 3 times, and stopped (Joash did not strike in full but in part; the arrows”; so he took them. And he said partial/half-hearted obedience to the word of God delivered by Elisha in verse 17b, “till you have to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; destroyed them”) so he struck three times, and stopped.

19 19= Q3 …You should have struck 5 or 6 times ….till And the man of God was angry with you had destroyed it! But now you will strike Syria only him, and said, “You should have struck 3 times (because of your partial obedience, you will recover your lost territories partially. Upon our five or six times; then you would have halfhearted obedience to God, we can’t receive the full gifts of the word of God, e.g., we can pray to the Lord struck Syria till you had destroyed it! But like “Lord give us whatever You want to give us. We are ready to obey You in full.”) now you will strike Syria only three times.”

20 Then Elisha died, and they buried him. 20= Then Elisha died; they buried him (the corpse of And the raiding bands from invaded Elisha was put in the sepulcher)…..the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land (the group of Moabites the the land in the spring of the year. thieves invaded the land of Israel at Elisha’s death)

21 So it was, as they were burying a man, 21= …suddenly they spied a band of raiders…they put that suddenly they spied a band of the man in the tomb of Elisha; when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and raiders; and they put the man in the tomb stood on his feet (when a funeral service people saw of Elisha; and when the man was let the thieves, they put the corpse of a man in sepulcher. When the dead man touched the bones of Elisha, he down and touched the bones of Elisha, was alive from the dead --- This miracle confirmed God’s word of victory over Syria to Joash by Elisha ). he revived and stood on his feet.

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22= Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days 22 And Hazael king of Syria oppressed of Jehoahaz (see verse 3 because of Jehoahaz’s disobedience to God – golden calves the idols worship; Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. so in verse 4 he prayed to God for help; then) 23= But the Lord was gracious to them..… 23 But the LORD was gracious to them, compassion…regarded them … His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not yet destroy had compassion on them, and regarded them or cast them from His presence (because our God them, because of His covenant with is a God of grace, compassion, mercy, or love, He did not destroy Israelites yet according to His covenant to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, e.g., Moses’ intercessional prayer for the Israelites who worshipped the golden calf not yet destroy them or cast them from Exodus 32:1318 ) His presence.

24 24= Hazael …died….Ben-Hadad his son reigned (the Now Hazael king of Syria died. Then new king of Syria Ben-Hadad still occupied the cities of Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his place. Israel in the east of Jordan river)

25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz 25= Jehoash the sone of Jehoahaz recaptured ---- the recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad, cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz (Joash or Jehoash recovered the lost cities by his father the son of Hazael, the cities which he had Jehoahaz); 3 times Joash defeated him …recaptured the cities of Israel (Joash or Jehoash recaptured the taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his cities as he defeated Ben-Hadad 3 times, not in full). father by war. Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel. Note: This online word for global crusade in effect develops from expositional sermon into spiritual transformation into the image of Christ in daily love fellowship with the Lord throughout the Bible Study (All Scripture Expository Study from verse by verse Inductive Studies) of which application is the Discipleship and Spiritual Formation, closer to the image of Christ. We think that “Any human opinion is not really important rather than what God says. So, the best commentary on the Bible is the Bible per se. But the opinion to make us understand God’s Word is acceptable. (2 Corinthians 10:5)”

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18 Exodus 32:13 “ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

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