We’re going to continue our study in first Kings. We will pick up with the questions from chapter 13 that I forgot to record the, uh, we’re going to continue our study in first Kings. We will pick up with the questions from chapter 13 that I forgot to record the, uh, the questions and the review for that, uh, previous weeks. So we’ll cover that and then we’ll go into chapter 15 and 16 of first Kings. Uh, in our study for today in first Kings chapter thirteens questions,
question number one, what would be the fate of Jeroboam according to the prophet of God from Judah. If you look at first Kings chapter 13, verses two and three, we read, then he cried out against the Alder by the word of the Lord and said, Oh, altar altar thus says the Lord. Behold a child, Josiah by name shall be born to the house of David and on you. He shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you and men’s bones shall be burned on you.
And he gave us in the same thing. This is the sign which the Lord has spoken. Surely the altar shall split apart and the ashes on it shall be poured out. And then also verse five, the altar also was split apart and the ashes poured out from the alter according to the sign, which the men and of God had given word of the Lord. So the fate of Jeroboam is that eventually, uh, his house would come to an end and that the alters that he had been, that he had built would be destroyed after the priests of those alders were burned upon them.
What was the sign which proved the prophet’s words? Uh, when Jeroboam reached out his hand, or excuse me, the sign, uh, was the altar splitting apart. In addition to that, when Jeroboam reached out his hand to tell them to arrest him, that is the prophet. Uh, his hand was unable to be drawn back in, uh, first Kings chapter 13, verses seven through nine. Then the King said to the man of God, come home with me and refresh yourself and I will give you a reward.
But the man of God said to the King, if you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you, nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place. For so was commanded me by the word of the Lord saying, you shall not eat bread nor drink water nor returned by the same way you came. So question two, why would the prophet of God not eat and drink with Jeroboam? Of course the answer is because God had told him not to. Question three comes from verse 11 and verse 18 of chapter 13 verse 11 we read now an old prophet dwelt in Bethel and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel.
They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the King. Verse 18 he said to him, I too am a prophet. This is the old prophet speaking to the young prophet. I too am a prophet as you are. And an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord saying, bring him back with you to your house. That he may eat bread and drink water. He was lying to him. The man from Bethel who lied to the prophet from Judah was a a prophet,
be a King, see a judge or D, a priest. The answer of course is a, he was a prophet. Question number four comes from verse 15 and then also from verse 18 describe the line which the prophet from Bethel told the prophet from Judah. The prophet from Bethel told the prophet from Judah that an angel had appeared to him and told him to come to his house. Even though the young prophet from Judah said that he was not supposed to remain in Israel nor eat in Israel. Question five,
what did the Lord say would be the punishment of the prophet from Judah for not obeying in verses 20 through 22. Now, it happened as they sat at the table that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back and he crying to him, cried out to the man of God who came from Judah saying, thus says the Lord, because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord and have not kept the commandment, which the Lord your God commanded you, but you came back,
ate bread and drank water in the place, which the Lord said to you, eat no bread and drink. No water your car.
We’re going to continue our study in first Kings. We will pick up with the questions from chapter 13 that I forgot to record the,
uh, the questions and the review for that, uh, previous weeks. So we’ll cover that and then we’ll go into chapter 15 and 16 of first Kings.
Uh, in our study for today in first Kings chapter thirteens questions. Question number one, what would be the fate of Jeroboam according to the prophet of God?
From Judah. If you look at first Kings chapter 13 verses two and three, we read, then he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord and said,
Oh, alter. Alter thus says the Lord. Behold, a child, Josiah by name shall be born to the house of David and on you.
He shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you and men’s bones shall be burned on you.
And he gave us in the same thing. This is the sign which the Lord has spoken. Surely the altar shall split apart and the ashes on it shall be poured out.
And then also verse five, the altar also was split apart. And the ashes poured out from the alter according to the sign,
which the men man of God had given word of the Lord. So the fate of Jeroboam is that eventually,
uh, his house would come to an end and the altars that he had been that he had built would be destroyed after the priests of those alders were burned upon them.
What was the sign which proved the prophet’s words? Uh, when Jeroboam reached out his hand, or excuse me,
the sign was the altar splitting apart. In addition to that, when Jeroboam reached out his hand to tell them to arrest him,
that is the prophet. Uh, his hand was unable to be drawn back in, uh, first Kings chapter 13,
verses seven through nine. Then the King said to the man of God, come home with me and refresh yourself and I will give you a reward.
But the man of God said to the King, if you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you,
nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place. For SOA was commanded me by the word of the Lord saying,
you shall not eat bread nor drink water nor returned by the same way you came. So question two,
why would the prophet of God not eat and drink with Jeroboam? Of course the answer is because God had told him not to.
Question three comes from verse 11 and verse 18 of chapter 13 verse 11 we read now an old prophet dwelt in Bethel and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel.
They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the King. Verse 18 he said to him,
I too am a prophet. This is the old prophet speaking to the young prophet. I too am a prophet as you are,
and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord saying, bring him back with you to your house,
that he may eat bread and drink water. He was lying to him. The man from Bethel who lied to the prophet from Judah was a a prophet,
be a King. See a judge or D, a priest. Answer of course is a, he was a prophet.
Question number four comes from verse 15 and then also from verse 18 describe the line which the prophet from Bethel told the prophet from Judah.
The prophet from Bethel told the prophet from Judah that an angel had appeared to him and told him to come to his house.
Even though the young prophet from Judah said that he was not supposed to remain in Israel nor eat in Israel.
Question five what did the Lord say would be the punishment of the prophet from Judah for not obeying in verses 20 through 22 now it happened as they sat at the table that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back and he cried to him,
cried out to the man of God who came from Judah saying thus says the Lord, because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord and have not kept the commandment,
which the Lord your God commanded you. But you came back, ate bread and drank water in the place,
which the Lord said to you, eat no bread and drink no water. Your corpse shall not come to the tomb of your.
So what did the Lord say? The punishment would be for the prophet who disobeyed. He would die and not return to the grave of his father.
He would die before returning home. Question six. What did the prophet from Jew, or excuse me,
how did the profit from Judah die? Who buried him and where? Verse 24 of chapter 13 says,
when he was gone, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his corpse was thrown on the road and the donkey stood by it.
The lion also stood by the corpse. So a lion comes, meets him on the way, attacks him and kills him,
but he doesn’t eat him and doesn’t attack the donkey. Just simply attacks the prophet. But then also verse 28 then he went and found his corpse thrown on the road.
That is the prophet from Bethel, goes and finds the young prophets corpse thrown, thrown on the road and the donkey and the lion standing by the corpse,
the lion, and not eaten the corpse nor torn the donkey. And verse 30 then he laid the corpse in his own tomb and they mourned over him saying,
alas, my brother. So how did the prophet from Judah die? He was killed by a lion who buried him,
the prophet from Bethel. And where the profit from Bethel buried him in his own tomb. Then question seven,
what did the prophet of Bethel say concerning the prophecies against the altar in Bethel and against the high places which the prophet of Judah had made beginning in verse 32 for the saying,
which he cried out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places which are in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.
So the prophet from Bethel said that everything which the prophet from Judah had said would come to pass. So those were the questions from chapter 13 now into chapter 15 in chapter 15 and 16 we have Israel and Judah at war with one another.
Notice chapter 15 beginning a chapter 15 verse one in the 18th year of the of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat,
uh, bine Jim became King over Judah. Now something important to realize and that is that you will read the book of Kings and you’ll read the corresponding chapters and passages in the book of Chronicles and names will not always be identical.
Sometimes this is because one will reference a King by a different name. Sometimes it’s just simply a spelling that is different.
And bear in mind that all in Hebrew, not all the same in the alphabet exists. Uh, there,
there are no vowels in the Hebrew, alphabet, alphabet. So there’s some differences in some times over the years,
different names were spelled differently. So, uh, by Jim here is the son of Rehoboam. He is going to come to the throne in the 18th year of Jeroboam,
but in Chronicles, he will, his name will be recognized as Abijah. And so just keep that in mind because Jeroboam also has a son who comes to the throne named Abijah.
So don’t, don’t get them confused. The one that comes to the throne in the Southern kingdom of Judah,
whose name in first Kings is a bijum, comes to the throne in the 18th year of Jeroboam. So that’s who we’re talking about.
We’re talking about the King in the Southern kingdom of Judah right now, a buying gym became King over Judah.
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maaco, the granddaughter of abs. Sholom. Now,
here’s another name that is spelled differently in Kings versus Chronicles, at least in modern English translations in Chronicles.
It records that this is the granddaughter of alum, the son of David. And so here we have,
uh, uh, buying gym raining and Rehoboam at some point Mary’s the granddaughter of Absalom. And this is the mother of a buying gym.
He walked in all the sins of his father, verse three, which he had done before him. His heart was not loyal to the Lord,
his God, as was the heart of his father, David. So Rehoboam comes to the throne and then he dies in a bijum.
His son reigns in his stead and a bijum rains for three years and he does evil the same way Rehoboam did.
Remember, Rehoboam continued to follow after idols. Rehoboam allowed the idolatry in Judah cut to continue and continued building up the high places in Judah.
Nevertheless, verse four for David’s sake, the Lord has gone, gave him a lamp in, in Jerusalem by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem.
Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and had not turned aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
So here we have a statement concerning Judah and the lineage of David Solomon departed from the Lord. Rehoboam his son continued down that path and departed further from the Lord of buying Jim.
His son reigns in his stead for three years and continues further down this path of turning away from the Lord.
And the writer of Kings wants us to know that had it not been for the faithfulness of David, had it not been for David’s willingness to obey God and his willingness to remain faithful to the Lord.
Not perfectly, not sinlessly, but continually except for the one matter with Uriah the Hittite word, David turned his heart away from the Lord,
but then repented said in all of this, the only reason that the lamp of David’s house, the throne in Judah remained with David’s family was David’s faithfulness.
Truly it is. It is incapable of being calculated. How much good is lasting generation after generation after generation as a result of one faithful generation,
one faithful man leads two generations of blessings to those who come after him, even if they didn’t obey the Lord.
So then notice what else there was war verse six, between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
Now the rest of the acts of abide, Jim and all that he did, are they not written in the book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
And there was war between a by Jim and Jeroboam. So there’s war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam and the 18th year of Jera bones,
rein Rehoboam, son of buying. Joan comes to the throne and there continues to be war with Jeroboam for the three years of abide Jim’s rain.
So we’ll bind him, rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. Then EISA,
his son reigned in his place. We just mentioned that because of the faithfulness of David, the lamp of the lineage of David and the throne of David wasn’t removed in spite of Solomon’s disobedience,
in spite of Rhea bones, disobedience in spite of a byte, Jim’s disobedience, yet the throne continued in the lineage of David.
And finally we get to EISA. Now the record of ACEs life and his reign in Judah is more complete in the book of Chronicles.
It will record details that Kings doesn’t, but here’s what you need to know. EISA is a good King.
EISA walks in the path of David, his father. Notice what we read about ASAP. In the 20th year of Jeroboam,
King of Judah EISA became King over Judah and he reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s name was makeup.
The granddaughter of Absalom. EISA did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did his father David.
So EISA is going to be set in contrast to rehabilitate them and to AB bijum. He is going to live a different life.
Now he’s going to come to the throne in the 20th year of Jeroboam, but Jeroboam is only going rain 20 years.
So his overlapping with the reign of Jeroboam is going to be very small, very minor, very small.
Verse 12 reads. And he banished the perverted persons from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Also, he removed makeup from his grandmother, from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah and EISA cut down her obscene image and burned it by the Brook.
Kidron. So one of the things that we mentioned in a previous class was that as the people in Israel and Judah departed into idolatry,
some of the things that came back with those idolatrous images and with those, that idolatry that had been put out of the land was this sin,
this inequity of sexual intercourse as a religious act. And that’s what this idea of perverted perf persons references here,
those who involve themselves in sexual immorality as a religious act. And so, uh, EISA comes in and he cast these people out of the land.
He drives them out, he destroys them and gets rid of them, and then even goes so far as to take make-a his grandmother,
the wife of Rehoboam, and remove her as queen mother. She is still there. She’s present. She’s been present through the rain of a Rehoboam.
She’s been present through the rain of a bind gym and now she’s being removed the cause of her idolatry.
You might remember a time in the past where we talked about, I think it’s Deuteronomy chapter 13 where Moses gives the commandments to Israel concerning who teaches Israel to follow idolatry.
One who pulls them away and commands them to, to follow after another God besides Jehovah. And Moses made it clear that if it was even a member of their own family,
if you were in Israelite and one from your own house, your brother or your sister or your mother or your father was the one who was telling people to follow after idols,
then your responsibility was to cast the first stone. Your responsibility was to not hide them away, to not keep it secret,
to not keep them safe, but instead to make it public and make it known and be part of the judgment.
It seems like EISA actually follows this command when it comes to make, uh, his grandmother. So he removes her and he removes the image that she made.
The image was cut down and burned at the Brook Kidron, verse 13, but the hind places were not removed.
Nevertheless, ACE, his heart was loyal to the Lord all his days. So AC doesn’t clean up everything that was wrong.
AC is not able to restore Judah to its original faithfulness to the Lord in completeness, but EISA will remain faithful.
Something that I wanted to point out, uh, here concerning EISA is, is from second Chronicles. So if you will turn over to second Chronicles,
I think, I think it’s chapter 14, uh, where we read about EISA and that is one of the events during ACEs reign in chapter 14 verse two,
we read EISA did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God for he removed the altars of the foreign gods in the high places,
broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images. Now something to note here, according to the Chronicle writer,
is that he did remove some of the high places, but he was not able to remove all of the high places.
Uh, he commanded Judah to seek the Lord of their Lord God of their fathers and to observe the law and the commandment.
He not only restored Judah back to following the Lord, but he restored Judah back to the law and to the commandments of God.
He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was quiet under him and he built for to find cities in Judah for the land.
Had rest. He had no Wars in though those years because the Lord had given him rest. Therefore,
he said to Judah, let us build these cities and make walls around them and Gates and bars while the land is yet before us because we have saw the Lord our God.
We have sought him and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. Go back again to Leviticus chapter 26 and to Deuteronomy in the beginning of the those that book,
and you remember God said, if you’re faithful to me, I’ll give you peace. If you’re faithful to me,
I’ll give you prosperity. If you turn your back on me, I’ll bring destruction. I’ll withhold the land from you.
I’ll bring enemies against you. And so God’s doing exactly what he said he would do. And EISA knows that.
And so AC uses this opportunity to continue to build up the land and to rebuild the land because of all that suffered.
Verse eight and EISA had an army of 300,000 from Judah who carried shields and Spears and from Benjamin, 280,000 men who carried shields.
And drew bows. All these were mighty men of Valor. So he has an army of 580,000 men.
And here of these men, these men are his men of Valor. Some of them are, are swordsmen,
some of them are archers. Uh, but then we read verse nine, then zero, the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots.
And he came to Mersa. And so EISA went out against him and they set the troops in battle array in the Valley of,
uh, Zarephath, excuse me, Zelpha at Marisha and EISA cried out to the Lord his God and said,
Lord, it is nothing for you to help whether many, whether with many or with those who have no power,
help us. Oh Lord, our God for we rest on you and in your name, we go against this multitude.
Oh Lord, you are our God. Do not let man prevail against you. Here’s EISA. There’s an army of a million men knocking at his Southern border.
There is an army, the like of which in modern times you and I have never seen assembled, and they’re at the door.
They’re at the border of Judah and they’re coming. And so EISA prepares his men and he prepares his army and he goes out and sets himself in array against this army that is almost double the size of his army.
And what is ACE ado? EISA doesn’t fret EISA doesn’t worry. EISA doesn’t go in his tent and cry EISA praise to God.
Okay? EISA knows that the numbers don’t matter when it comes to the Lord. EISA knows that. It doesn’t matter how big the army is,
if the Lord decides to be on his side, if the Lord helps him, then victory is assured.
But he also knows this. If the Lord doesn’t help him, does he sues for peace before the battle comes?
ACE is facing this predicament, but ACE is not ready to become a subject of this King from Africa.
And so EISA Morgan and his army.