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2 Chronicles 25-28 Good Evening Church, I Am Glad You Could Make It out Tonight Page 1 of 29 2 Chronicles 25-28 Good evening church, I am glad you could make it out tonight. Hello to those of you watching online. Tonight we are going to continue in our study through the Old Testament, we will be in 2 Chronicles Chapter 25 and we will attempt to get through Chapter 28 tonight. We have much going on in our world, and for me, it is a joy to gather here with you all to come under God’s Word. This place is the only place that makes sense, and His Word is the only True Comfort in this World. So let’s pray, and we will get into our text tonight. Well, we finished last time by looking at the assassination of King Joash of Judah, and we will pick up right after his death… Look now at chapter 25… Amaziah Reigns in Judah(2 Kings 14:1-6) 25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a loyal heart. Now Amaziah was a reformer just like Joash his father. Page 2 of 29 But we see here at the end of verse two, he fell short of complete reform. He did not live up to the standard that King David had set as the template, and he continued to allow the high places to exist as we saw in 2 Kings Chapter 14. Verse 3 now… 3 Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established for him, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king. 4 However he did not execute their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall die for his own sin." In Antiquity, it was common practice to execute a guilty person’s family for heinous crimes, such as murder. In all practicality, it would have been wiser for Amaziah to kill the children, because leaving them alive would have given chance to the survivors to enact revenge. But, we see early on in Amaziah’s rule, he was obedient to God’s Word, above even the normal customs of the day. The Law of Moses states in Deut. 24:16 "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall Page 3 of 29 children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin." God expected that each person individually be responsible for their own sin. A father cannot be guilty for the sin of their grown children, and the children cannot be responsible for the sin of their parents. Understand, today, each of us have to come to God on our own, and each of us individually have to receive salvation. Our kids, while in our homes, we are to train up, and to teach, but ultimately they must choose for themselves. Also, I would like to point out, parents should not automatically blame themselves for their wayward children. Look at verse 5 now… The War Against Edom(2 Kings 14:7) 5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together and set over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, according to their fathers' houses, throughout all Judah and Benjamin; and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them to be three hundred thousand choice men, able to go to war, who could handle spear and shield. 6 He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for one hundred talents of silver. 7 But a Page 4 of 29 man of God came to him, saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel — not with any of the children of Ephraim. 8 But if you go, be gone! Be strong in battle! Even so, God shall make you fall before the enemy; for God has power to help and to overthrow." Here Amaziah assembled an army, which would eventually be used to fight against Edom. Amaziah here hired mercenaries from the Northern tribes of Israel. This too was a very common practice in Antiquity. And God here sends an unnamed prophet to warn him against this maneuver, warning that if he aligned himself with the wicked regime in the North, they would be easily defeated on the battlefield. Verse 9 now… 9 Then Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred talents which I have given to the troops of Israel?" And the man of God answered, "The Lord is able to give you much more than this." 10 So Amaziah discharged the troops that had come to him from Ephraim, to go back home. Therefore their anger was greatly aroused against Judah, and they returned home in great anger. Page 5 of 29 We see here that Amaziah heard and understood the Word of God from the Lord’s messenger. But we see here that he asks an interesting question, “How much will it cost me to obey the Lord?” And of course he is presented with the reality that whatever it costs him, it will be far less than what the price of disobedience would be. I have pled with people in the past, who are living together outside of marriage. She may be receiving her deceased husband’s pension, or alimony that might stop coming in if she remarries. And the reality is they are living disobedient to the Lord thinking only about what it would cost them to obey. But they totally disregard the Blessing of obedience. Eph. 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, You see He is a God who can do more than what our measly minds are even capable of thinking up. Some think the cost of obeying God is too much, but the True Reality to consider is the price of disobedience is far greater. And the Blessings of Obedience are being forfeited. God’s ways are so much higher than ours. Page 6 of 29 Amaziah chooses to lose out, and obey here. Then we read in verse 11… 11 Then Amaziah strengthened himself, and leading his people, he went to the Valley of Salt and killed ten thousand of the people of Seir. 12 Also the children of Judah took captive ten thousand alive, brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were dashed in pieces. 13 But as for the soldiers of the army which Amaziah had discharged, so that they would not go with him to battle, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon, killed three thousand in them, and took much spoil. So the dismissed Northern Soldiers are making up now for the spoil they would have received had they gone to battle. The spoil was part of the soldiers pay during wartime. Look now at verse 14… 14 Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them. 15 Therefore the anger of the Lord was aroused against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?" Page 7 of 29 16 So it was, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, "Have we made you the king's counselor? Cease! Why should you be killed?" Then the prophet ceased, and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice." And once again we see the folly of a good king, who had potential to be a great king, but fell away. We see the foolishness of idolatry here, why would anyone worship an idol or a god who was made by human hands, and that are something you can steal away. Man is so foolish at what he will bow down too. And another prophet was sent to reveal this foolishness, and he is silenced. And like many today, the king stops up his ears at Truth. Many times people will seek advice, and I will give them God’s Word, and they will in so many words say, “Be quiet.” The king here is now leaving the path of obedience and is rejecting God’s Word. Verse 17 now… Israel Defeats Judah(2 Kings 14:8-14) 17 Now Amaziah king of Judah asked advice and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Page 8 of 29 Israel, saying, "Come, let us face one another in battle." 18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as wife'; and a wild beast that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.
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