1 John 2:27

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Through 1 Chronicles 3 (p. 540 in my Bible)








Bonus:  Names of God! (Some of them)





http://www.blueletterbible.org/study/misc/name_god.cfm#link1


2 Kings 10
:1 - Ahab has 70 sons!
:7 - heads in baskets sent to Jezreel
:27 - Baal's house became the outhouse, thanks to Jehu!
:32 - Hazael was used to cut Israel short


2 Kings 11
:2 - Joash was hid as a baby from the slaying of the royal offspring - reminds me of Moses
:7 - Assignments for keeping watch - including over the Lord's house
:16 - and they laid hands on her Not in a good way.
Jehoiada is the priest that commandment watch to be kept over the anointing of Joash as king.  Sometimes it is hard to distinguish all these Hebrew names.
:20 - Athaliah was almost doomed from the beginning just because Jezebel was her mama


2 Kings 12
:7 - Good for King Jehoash.  He stood strong to make the priests fix the leaks in God's house!
:9 - No doubt a system some places still use to collect money.  A chest on the right side as you enter with a hole on top to put in money.
:13 - Money was taken away from decorating God's house with precious gold and silver to pay the workmen fixing the house.
:16 - trespass & sin money = similar to penance.  Some piano teachers use this principle with their students.  Every time they miss a note, they have to put a penny in the jar!
:19 - King Jehoash, King over Israel; King Joash, King over Judah.  Parallel accounts of their kingships.


2 Kings 13
:9, 13 - When kings' death are recorded, it is said that they "slept with their fathers."  This is not said of the prophets' deaths.
:19 - Elisha was still prophecying for God on his deathbed
:21 - Elisha's bones in the grave raised someone from the dead


2 Kings 14
:2 - Ahaz became king when he was only 20 years old, which seems even younger considering how much longer they lived back then.  Also, mother's name is mentioned:  Jehoaddan
:13 - Jehoash, Israel's king, took gold, silver, and vessels out of the house of the LORD from Amaziah, king of Judah
:21 - Azariah became king at 16 when his dad, Amaziah, was murdered.  16!!
:27 - God saved Israel from his own wrath by the hand of Jeroboam, Joash's son


2 Kings 15
:1 - Another 16 yr old king!  And his mom's name is mentioned - Jecholiah
:5 - This king Azariah became a leper by the smiting of God.  God did it to him.  Perhaps in retribution for his father's murder and the way he became king?  It is clear that God has always enforced His own order.
:8 - Zachariah only got to be king for 6 months before he got assasinated


2 Kings 16
:3 - made his son to pass through the fire - clearly a heathen abomination to subject your own child to torture 
:8 - King Ahaz gave away treasures from God's house as a gift to another king!
:10 - King Ahaz had a replica built of an altar he saw in Damascus, a trading city of Syria http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1834&t=KJV


2 Kings 17
:9 - Secret disobedience towards God?  How can that exist?
:17 - Again, forcing children to hurt themselves by passing them through the fire is not something that pleases God
:18- Israel is first removed from God's sight, leaving only Judah, who is not far behind in being removed herself
God allows Israel to be encamped by the Assyrians (different from Syrians).  They get attacked by lions God sent because they didn't fear Him.  So Assyria's King asks for Israel to send priests to teach their people how to fear God!  Too bad the teaching didn't last.


2 Kings 18
:4 - Finally, King Hoshea removes the high places (idol worship altar places)  The children of Israel had actually named and started worshipping the snake Moses had made for them to look upon and be healed in the wilderness.  They named it Nehushtan = a thing of brass http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5180&t=KJV
picture reference




:6 - First king that it is said "clave to the LORD"
:17 - fuller's field = laundry field
:21 - King of Assyria describes Egypt & Pharoah = bruised reed that will pierce you if you lean on it 
:27 - that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you - a timeless, descriptive, effective insult
:35 - Finally, obedience.


2 Kings 19
:2 - Putting on sackcloth is such a foreign tradition to me.  When I searched it out, the consensus is that putting on sackcloth is a way of penance, as it is not very comfortable to wear.  


:5 - Hello Isaiah!
:14 - King Hezekiah spreads the threatening letter before the Lord
:28 - Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. What if God said this to us?
:35 - the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand (185,000).  A death angel sent with no Passover salvation given


2 Kings 20
:1- Doesn't it seem like prophets of God should always prophecy life instead of death?  I am amazed by how often prophets had to give such morbidly bad news.
:6 - Is it really a comfort to know you have 15 more years?  I guess you still don't know exactly when the Lord will give you your last breath...
:7 - a lump of figs healed the boil.  Figs heal.


To find out more about fig health benefits:  http://www.elements4health.com/figs.html
:11 - God turned back time 10 degrees to prove to Hezekiah he would live
Hezekiah showed off all his material goods to the King of Babylon, which got him into trouble.  


2 Kings 21
:1 - Manasseh became king at 12 and got Israel in trouble again.
:24 - The people chose for themselves at times who would be king...or they would speed up the lineage/next-in-line process.


2 Kings 22
:1 - Josiah - an 8 year old king!!!  Jedidah was his mom.
:14 - a woman prophetess I have just heard of for the first time = Huldah
:20 - She gets to prophecy another death, but this time it is presented as a good thing-an escape from witnessing the evil that will come
*God's anger was stirred up again in this chapter because the people refused to fix the breaches (leaks) in His house.


2 Kings 23
:10 - Topheth = where children were passed through fire.  One of the places King Josiah did away with.
:25 - No one like Josiah.  Good job!


2 Kings 24
Nebuchadnezzar,king of Babylon - Jehoiakim birthed Jehoiachin - Mattaniah changed his name to Zedekiah


2 Kings 25
:3 - famine strikes
:5 - army of the Chaldees - also Chaldeans, inhabitants of Babylonia associated with astrology and magic http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3778&t=KJV
:11 - Nebuzaradan
:27 - Evilmerodach - king of Babylon, son of Nebuchadnezzar. If this were my name, I would change it.  However, he acts better than his name suggests when he shows kindness to the king of Judah, giving him a daily allowance 


1 Chronicles 1
family records from Adam to Abraham, Ishmael and Keturah's family records, Esau's Family record


1 Chronicles 2
Judah's family record
begat, begat, had another wife, which bare him


1 Chronicles 3
David's sons, Solomon's family record
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