Sermons on 2 Chronicles

20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that…

Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord, 3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the Lord, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall…

And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses. 15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. 16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All…

I want to look first at Josiah’s father, Ammon. Ammon was the son of Manasseh, and Manasseh, as you remember, was the most ungodly king that ever ruled in Judah. And yet at the end of his life, as we saw on Sunday, he repented and called out to the Lord, and the Lord forgave him. And he went back and began to restore some of the things that he had destroyed. But a big portion of the problem was…

Manasseh took over for his father. Hezekiah had been a very godly man. Remember when Hezekiah was a young man in his twenties and came to rule the nation of Israel, he established, the first thing he did was call the people to sanctify themselves. He called the priests and the Levites to sanctify themselves. He called them to tear down the high places, the groves, the idols. There had been things that had desecrated the temple. Hezekiah cleaned all…

He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the Lord. 4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.…

We saw that Hezekiah, who is one of the greatest kings that Israel had, did something very unique that no other king from the time of Solomon had done. We’ve studied a huge period of time. We went all the way from studying David and Solomon, Rehoboam, the splitting of the kingdom, the northern kingdom of Israel, all of their kings. We see that now that kingdom has come to an end during the time of Hezekiah because of the rebellion of the people against…

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel. 2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently,…

Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them. 4…

This afternoon I want to continue to look at 2 Chronicles and 2 Kings. We’re looking at the Kings of Israel and the Kings of Judah. And if you have your Bibles, and you’ll turn with me, I want to look at 2 Kings chapter 15, and we’re also going to be looking at 2 Chronicles, and I believe it will be chapter 27. And I want us to look at, we’ve been looking at Uzziah, and then after Uzziah in Israel, Uzziah’s son, Ahazariah, Uzziah means Ahazariah, and…