Post by Woody Williams on Feb 12, 2007 8:02:54 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- II Kings 24:18-25:5
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of
Jeremiah of Libnah. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD,
just as Jehoiakim had done. Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered
the LORD that he expelled them from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon.
And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth
day of the month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with all his
army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; they built siegeworks
against it all around. So the city was besieged until the eleventh
year of King Zedekiah. On the ninth day of the fourth month the
famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the
people of the land. Then a breach was made in the city wall; the
king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate
between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans
were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in
the plains of Jericho; all his army was scattered, deserting him.
Devotional
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The great exile of Israel began when Jerusalem fell to the
Babylonians under the reign of king Zedekiah. Zedekiah had been a
very wicked king. The exile was a powerful judgment against Israel
for the way in which they had rejected God and the covenant that had
been established. This was a great turning point in Israel's history.
Prayer
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By your Holy Spirit, Lord, continue to strengthen my faith and trust
in you. Amen
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of
Jeremiah of Libnah. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD,
just as Jehoiakim had done. Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered
the LORD that he expelled them from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon.
And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth
day of the month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with all his
army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; they built siegeworks
against it all around. So the city was besieged until the eleventh
year of King Zedekiah. On the ninth day of the fourth month the
famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the
people of the land. Then a breach was made in the city wall; the
king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate
between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans
were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in
the plains of Jericho; all his army was scattered, deserting him.
Devotional
----------
The great exile of Israel began when Jerusalem fell to the
Babylonians under the reign of king Zedekiah. Zedekiah had been a
very wicked king. The exile was a powerful judgment against Israel
for the way in which they had rejected God and the covenant that had
been established. This was a great turning point in Israel's history.
Prayer
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By your Holy Spirit, Lord, continue to strengthen my faith and trust
in you. Amen