diff --git a/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/28:1-15.md b/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/28:1-15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a37756 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/2chronicles/28:1-15.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ ++++ +title = "2 Chronicles 28:1–15" +date = "2025-05-22" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2Chronicles28.1-15) + +An uncareful reading of the history of Israel and Judah is likely to confuse the kings Ahab and Ahaz. +They were both wicked kings who had famous prophets speak against them in multiple books of the Old Testament. +Ahab ruled over the northern kingdom of Israel, married the idolatrous Jezebel, and endured the castigation of Elijah. +Ahaz ruled over Judah several generations later and was given the sign of Immanuel by the prophet Isaiah ([_Isaiah 7_](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Isaiah7)) + +As mentioned before, Ahaz did not follow in the faith of his father and grandfather, but was perhaps influenced by the idolatry of his subjects. +Regardless of the reasons, he went deeper than any other king before him and performed child sacrifice like the Canaanites did from so long before. +Because of this, the Lord raised up Syria and Israel against Judah. +Each country defeated Judah and took many people captive. + +But the Lord was faithful to His promises and did not let Judah be utterly defeated and wiped off the maps. +He sent the prophet Oded to Samaria, the capital of Israel, and he instructed them to send back the captive Judahites they had fairly taken. +The reasoning is that Judah was chastised for their sin as a nation, but Israel is not innocent before the Lord either. +Furthermore, keeping these captives as slaves would violate the Law of Moses, which said captured Israelites must be allowed to return to their own inheritance. +Certain chiefs of Israel obeyed the voice of the Lord and took the captives from the army. +They fed them, clothed them, cared for their wounds, and escorted them back to Jericho. + +* * * + +You are faithful even when we are not.