Geneology records for the porters (gatekeepers/doorkeepers)
:13 - They cast lots to pick the gates they would each be assigned to. How interesting that sometimes decisions require fasting, praying, and waiting on God, and some decisions you just cast lots for (ie- coin toss or throwing dice).
1 Chronicles 27
Captains for each month named
Rulers of all the tribes named
Task leaders named
1 Chronicles 28
David calls an assembly of the princes and captains
:9 - Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. ~What a precious and wonderful advice from father to son
:11 - David gave Solomon the pattern of the porch, houses, treasuries, upper chambers, inner parlours, mercy seat, (:12) and the pattern of all that he had by the spirit
:19 - All [this, said David], the LORD made me understand in writing by [his] hand upon me, [even] all the works of this pattern.
Now I know how Solomon knew how to build God's house!
1 Chronicles 29
:3 - I have set my affection to the house of my God ~Shouldn't we all?
*Willing and upright heart offerings are reapeated often throughout this chapter
:21 - A thousand sacrificed rams offered up would be a full time job to prepare!
2 Chronicles 1
:3 - High place at Gibeon was location of the tabernacle of congregation from Moses
:7 - God tells Solomon to "Ask what I shall give thee"
:9 - "Dust of the Earth" sounds like more than "sands of the sea"
2 Chronicles 2
Solomon begins process of building God's house
:6 - heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him [God] - because He is a mighty big God! That's why he has to live in us!
2 Chronicles 3
:4 - Gold plated porch!
:17 - the right handed pillar was named Jachin and the left handed pillar was named Boaz
2 Chronicles 4
:1 - Brass altar
:6 - the priests had to wash in the molten sea held up by 12 oxen statues
:16 - fleshhook = 3 pronged fork, sacrificial implement - from a root word meaning to draw up http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H4207
:22 - gold doors
2 Chronicles 5
:6 - Interesting that they assembled before the ark with too many sacrificial animals to count. I am reminded of the assembly of animals by Noah's ark.
:7 - oracle = holy of holies http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1687&t=KJV
:14 - So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God. ~wow!
2 Chronicles 6
:1 - Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. This is so powerful to me...that God would surround himself with darkness, being the Light.
:17 - Asking God to verify His word.
:24-25 - And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house; Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers. ~This reminds me of the passage we quote often from 2 Chronicles 7:14
*It is good to pray specifically and with details. He always says hear from the heavens
2 Chronicles 7
:12 - God verifies to Solomon that he chose the place for a house of sacrifice
2 Chronicles 8
:14 - And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded. ~Rituals begin.
2 Chronicles 9
Queen of Sheba's [southern Arabia] visit is recounted
:29 - Where are these books? Book of Nathan the Prophet, Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, Visions of Iddo the Seer
2 Chronicles 10
:4 - servitude
Ask for a lighter yoke. Less servitude. And you might just get more.
2 Chronicles 11
Civil war between Judah, Benjamin, and Israel
:21 - 28 sons and 60 daughters. Lots of work!
2 Chronicles 12
:13 - mother of Rehoboam - Naamah an Ammonitess
:14 - More books mentioned not in Scripture: Book of Shemaiah, Iddo the seer
2 Chronicles 13
:2 - Michaiah - daughter of Uriel of Gibeah is Jeroboam's (king of Judah) mother
:5 - covenant of salt
Abijah vs. Jeroboam - Abijah (king of Judah) and Judah win because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers (:18)
:21 - 14 wives, 22 sons, 16 daughters...thank God for the year and generation of 2010!!!
2 Chronicles 14
No wonder the land was quiet! King Asa took down the high places...unlike so many other kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 15
:7 - Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded. ~My new ministry mantra
:15- Judah swears with all her heart to seek God with their whole desire
2 Chronicles 16
Oops...Asa requests the king of Syria to break their loyalty to Israel and fight for Judah, so God gets upset.
:7- Hanani the seer. We don't hear much teaching on seers.
2 Chronicles 17
:2- Jehoshaphat puts back up the protection (garrisons) in the land that his father had taken away.
:6 - Somewhere between when Jehoshaphat's father, Asa took down the high places, and J. beginning to reign, they came back again because here we see him taking them back down.
:9 - Priests teach the people
:13 - having much business is in the Bible!
Men of war and mighty men of valour (300,000) captains are listed
2 Chronicles 18
:3 - 3 part friendship covenant: I am as thou art, My people thy people, together in war
:7 - King of Israel has to admit to King of Judah that he hates the prophet of the LORD because he never prophesies good to him. (Micaiah = who is like God) This cracks me up!!!
Shall there be reunion of Israel and Judah?
Hilarious! So they send for this Micaiah prophet, and when he tries to say what the king wants to hear, the king knows it and makes him tell him the truth...which of course is bad as usual.
:16 - Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to his house in peace.
:20 - Suddenly we become a fly on the wall in God's house where a spirit comes out and stands before the LORD and offers to entice Ahab by becoming a lying spirit in the mouth of all the prophets...and the Lord tells him to go and that he will have success. Hard to think of this for too long without "losing your salvation," so to speak. How can God send a lying spirit to intentionally deceive a king? The same way He does everything. Supernaturally.
:23 - a prophet slaps another prophet in the face asking why God's spirit left him and went to the other guy to prophecy. Wow! Who knew? What a reality show that would have made.
Sometimes, you can be the minority in the office of prophets having the true Word of God...and all the others could have a lying spirit sent also from God.
2 Chronicles 19
Jehoshaphat sends judges to every city, commissioning them that they are judging not for man, but for God, who is with them in judgment (:6)
:7 - for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. ~ commonly heard expression
2 Chronicles 20
:3- king proclaims a fast throughout the whole kingdom! Can that still be accomplished today?
:15 - Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's. ~ I am gaining such an appreciation for the story behind all these wonderful scriptures people quote frequently in messages and songs. God speaks this to Judah only after they swear wholeheartedly to serve God and come into a community fast.
:16 - cliff of Ziz
:17 - stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD with you
:19 - They stood up to shout to praise God! Yes!
:20 - Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. ~this chapter is full of these great quotes!
:21 - Appointed singers/praisers were sent before the army, and then God sent ambushments against Judah's enemies so that by the time they saw something in their watchtower, all their enemies were dead bodies on the ground! Were these actual people armies from some other land? Or warring angels? Both??? Oooo I am taking a praise break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:31 - mother Azubah, daughter of Shilhi
2 Chronicles 21
I am so disappointed that Jehoshaphat's kids broke the great legacy of their Dad.
:15, :19 - having your bowels fall out as judgment from God
~~It is so hard breezing through the Bible like a book! I want to savor it like a wonderful steak...but that would take more than one year to complete!~~
