Notice what God does not say. He does not say: obey these commandments, and then I will rescue you. He…
We have been in the palace for thirty days. We have sat with kings who tore their robes in genuine…
Jeremiah gave Zedekiah the clearest, most specific leadership counsel in the entire book: surrender to Babylon, and you and the…
Hoshea was Israel's last king. Under his reign, the Assyrian king Shalmaneser invaded, besieged Samaria for three years, captured it,…
Jehoshaphat was one of the finest kings Judah ever produced. He sought the Lord in the early years of his…
Abijah was outnumbered two to one. The army of Jeroboam had 800,000 soldiers. Abijah had 400,000. Before a single sword…
We have spent three and a half weeks in the palace, walking through the reigns of kings whose stories have…
In a single year, the northern kingdom of Israel had three kings. Zechariah reigned six months before Shallum conspired against…
Elisha was dying. Jehoash, king of Israel, came to him weeping, using the same words Elisha himself had used when…
Jotham gets four verses. That is almost nothing by royal standards. No dramatic military victory that takes a chapter to…