WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.719 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:09.480 in a year. Today's reading is from 2 Chronicles 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:14.560 chapter 21 and 2 Kings chapters 11 and 12. 2 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.980 Chronicles chapter 21 And Jehoshaphat rested 00:00:17.980 --> 00:00:20.500 with his fathers and was buried with his fathers 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:23.719 in the city of David. Then Jehoram his son reigned 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:36.070 in his place. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat 00:00:36.070 --> 00:00:38.789 king of Israel. Their father gave them great 00:00:38.789 --> 00:00:41.049 gifts of silver and gold and precious things 00:00:41.049 --> 00:00:44.170 with fortified cities in Judah. But he gave the 00:00:44.170 --> 00:00:46.750 kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn. 00:00:46.929 --> 00:00:49.250 Now when Jehoram was established over the kingdom 00:00:49.250 --> 00:00:51.990 of his father, he strengthened himself and killed 00:00:51.990 --> 00:00:54.789 all his brothers with the sword and also others 00:00:54.789 --> 00:00:57.700 of the princes of Israel. Jehoram was 32 years 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:00.799 old when he became king, and he reigned 8 years 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.600 in Jerusalem. And he walked in the way of the 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.140 kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:09.040 done, for he had the daughter of Ahab as a wife. 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:11.620 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord. Yet 00:01:11.620 --> 00:01:13.439 the Lord would not destroy the house of David, 00:01:13.579 --> 00:01:15.739 because of the covenant that he had made with 00:01:15.739 --> 00:01:18.280 David, and since he had promised to give a lamb 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.359 to him and to his sons forever. In his days, 00:01:21.420 --> 00:01:24.060 Edom revolted against Judah's authority and made 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:26.840 a king over themselves. So Jehoram went out with 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.540 his officers and all his chariots with him, and 00:01:29.540 --> 00:01:32.000 he rose by night and attacked the Edomites who 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.439 had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots. 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.480 Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah's 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.980 authority to this day. At that time, Libna revolted 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:43.299 against his rule because he had forsaken the 00:01:43.299 --> 00:01:45.879 Lord God of his fathers. Moreover, he had made 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:48.359 high places in the mountains of Judah and caused 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:50.959 the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit harlotry 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:54.219 and led Judah astray. And the letter came to 00:01:54.219 --> 00:01:56.420 him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says 00:01:56.420 --> 00:01:58.799 the Lord God of your father David, Because you 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:00.959 have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.700 father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:06.319 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.919 and have made Judah an inhabitants of Jerusalem 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.960 to play the harlot like the harlotry of the house 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.159 of Ahab, and also have killed your brothers, 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:16.780 those of your father's household, who were better 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:19.620 than yourself. Behold, the Lord will strike your 00:02:19.620 --> 00:02:21.969 people with a serious affliction. your children, 00:02:22.150 --> 00:02:24.509 your wives, and all your possessions. And you 00:02:24.509 --> 00:02:26.650 will become very sick with a disease of your 00:02:26.650 --> 00:02:29.430 intestines, until your intestines come out by 00:02:29.430 --> 00:02:32.469 reason of the sickness day by day. Moreover, 00:02:32.710 --> 00:02:34.909 the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit 00:02:34.909 --> 00:02:37.810 of the Philistines and the Arabians who were 00:02:37.810 --> 00:02:40.449 near the Ethiopians. And they came up into Judah 00:02:40.449 --> 00:02:43.129 and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions 00:02:43.129 --> 00:02:45.710 that were found in the king's house, and also 00:02:45.710 --> 00:02:48.169 his sons and his wives, so that there was not 00:02:48.169 --> 00:02:51.629 a son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest 00:02:51.629 --> 00:02:54.800 of his sons. After all this, the Lord struck 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.520 him in his intestines with an incurable disease. 00:02:57.860 --> 00:03:00.240 Then it happened in the course of time, after 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.900 the end of two years, that his intestines came 00:03:02.900 --> 00:03:05.740 out because of his sickness. So he died in severe 00:03:05.740 --> 00:03:08.479 pain, and his people made no burning for him 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:11.319 like the burning for his fathers. He was thirty 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:13.919 -two years old when he became king. He reigned 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.840 in Jerusalem eight years, and to no one's sorrow 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:19.710 departed. However, they buried him in the city 00:03:19.710 --> 00:03:22.110 of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. 00:03:25.449 --> 00:03:29.129 When Ataliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that 00:03:29.129 --> 00:03:31.629 her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all 00:03:31.629 --> 00:03:34.409 the royal heirs. But Jehoshabah, the daughter 00:03:34.409 --> 00:03:37.590 of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, 00:03:37.689 --> 00:03:40.370 the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among 00:03:40.370 --> 00:03:43.009 the king's sons who were being murdered, and 00:03:43.009 --> 00:03:45.469 they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom from 00:03:45.469 --> 00:03:48.009 Ataliah so that he was not killed. So he was 00:03:48.009 --> 00:03:49.729 hidden with her in the house of the Lord for 00:03:49.729 --> 00:03:52.389 six years, while Ataliah reigned over the land. 00:03:52.610 --> 00:03:55.550 In the seventh year, Jehoiada sent and brought 00:03:55.550 --> 00:03:57.909 the captains of hundreds, of the bodyguards and 00:03:57.909 --> 00:03:59.969 the escorts, and brought them into the house 00:03:59.969 --> 00:04:02.370 of the Lord to him. And he made a covenant with 00:04:02.370 --> 00:04:04.289 them and took an oath from them in the house 00:04:04.289 --> 00:04:06.449 of the Lord, and showed them the king's son. 00:04:06.689 --> 00:04:09.030 Then he commanded them, saying, This is what 00:04:09.030 --> 00:04:11.750 you shall do. One third of you who come on duty 00:04:11.750 --> 00:04:13.949 on the Sabbath shall be keeping watch over the 00:04:13.949 --> 00:04:16.269 king's house. One third shall be at the gate 00:04:16.269 --> 00:04:19.329 of Sur, and one third at the gate behind the 00:04:19.329 --> 00:04:21.610 escorts. You shall keep the watch of the house, 00:04:21.689 --> 00:04:25.310 lest it be broken down. The two contingents of 00:04:25.310 --> 00:04:27.810 you who go off duty on the Sabbath shall keep 00:04:27.810 --> 00:04:29.810 the watch of the house of the Lord for the king. 00:04:30.170 --> 00:04:32.230 But you shall surround the king on all sides, 00:04:32.350 --> 00:04:35.610 every man with his weapons in his hand, and whoever 00:04:35.610 --> 00:04:38.129 comes within range, let him be put to death. 00:04:38.310 --> 00:04:41.230 You are to be with the king as he goes out and 00:04:41.230 --> 00:04:43.670 as he comes in. So the captains of the hundreds 00:04:43.670 --> 00:04:46.449 did according to all that Jehoiada the priest 00:04:46.449 --> 00:04:49.870 commanded. Each of them took his men who were 00:04:49.870 --> 00:04:52.209 to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who 00:04:52.209 --> 00:04:54.439 were going off duty on the Sabbath. and came 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.740 to Jehoiada the priest. And the priest gave the 00:04:56.740 --> 00:04:59.660 captains of hundreds the spears and shields which 00:04:59.660 --> 00:05:01.939 had belonged to King David that were in the temple 00:05:01.939 --> 00:05:04.819 of the Lord. Then the escorts stood every man 00:05:04.819 --> 00:05:07.819 with his weapons in his hand all around the king 00:05:07.819 --> 00:05:10.279 from the right side of the temple to the left 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.019 side of the temple by the altar and the house. 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.720 And he brought out the king's son, put the crown 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.560 on him, and gave him the testimony. They made 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:20.920 him king and anointed him, and they clapped their 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:24.379 hands and said, Long live the king. Now when 00:05:24.379 --> 00:05:26.560 Atalia heard the noise of the escorts and the 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:28.540 people, she came to the people in the temple 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:30.920 of the Lord. When she looked, there was the king 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.519 standing by a pillar according to custom, and 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:35.779 the leaders and the trumpeters were by the king. 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.319 All the people of the land were rejoicing and 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:40.639 blowing trumpets. So Atalia tore her clothes 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.759 and cried out, Treason! Treason! And Jehoiada 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:45.699 the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, 00:05:45.899 --> 00:05:48.779 the officers of the army, and said to them, Take 00:05:48.779 --> 00:05:51.620 her outside under guard, and slay with the sword 00:05:51.620 --> 00:05:54.379 whoever follows her. For the priests had said, 00:05:54.540 --> 00:05:56.620 Do not let her be killed in the house of the 00:05:56.620 --> 00:05:59.199 Lord. So they seized her, and she went by way 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.399 of the horse's entrance into the king's house, 00:06:01.540 --> 00:06:04.939 and there she was killed. Then Jehoiada made 00:06:04.939 --> 00:06:07.300 a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the 00:06:07.300 --> 00:06:09.279 people, that they should be the Lord's people, 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.660 and also between the king and the people. And 00:06:11.660 --> 00:06:13.720 all the people of the land went to the temple 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.529 of Baal and tore it down. They thoroughly broke 00:06:16.529 --> 00:06:19.850 in pieces its altars and images and killed Matan 00:06:19.850 --> 00:06:22.529 the priest of Baal before the altars, and the 00:06:22.529 --> 00:06:24.810 priest appointed officers over the house of the 00:06:24.810 --> 00:06:26.850 Lord. Then he took the captains of hundreds, 00:06:27.069 --> 00:06:29.889 the bodyguards, the escorts, and all the people 00:06:29.889 --> 00:06:32.250 of the land, and they brought the king down from 00:06:32.250 --> 00:06:34.589 the house of the Lord, and went by way of the 00:06:34.589 --> 00:06:37.290 gate of the escorts to the king's house. Then 00:06:37.290 --> 00:06:39.810 he sat on the throne of the kings, so all the 00:06:39.810 --> 00:06:42.350 people of the land rejoiced, and the city was 00:06:42.350 --> 00:06:45.370 quiet, for they had slain Ataiah with the sword 00:06:45.370 --> 00:06:48.149 in the king's house. Jehoash was seven years 00:06:48.149 --> 00:06:53.529 old when he became king. Chapter 12 In the seventh 00:06:53.529 --> 00:06:57.470 year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned 00:06:57.470 --> 00:07:00.470 forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was 00:07:00.470 --> 00:07:03.680 Zibiah of Beersheba. Jehoash did what was right 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:05.680 in the sight of the Lord all the days in which 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:08.220 Jehoiada the priest instructed him. But the high 00:07:08.220 --> 00:07:10.579 places were not taken away. The people still 00:07:10.579 --> 00:07:13.699 sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. 00:07:13.899 --> 00:07:17.129 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money 00:07:17.129 --> 00:07:19.670 of the dedicated gifts that are brought into 00:07:19.670 --> 00:07:22.550 the house of the Lord, each man's census money, 00:07:22.689 --> 00:07:25.389 each man's assessment money, and all the money 00:07:25.389 --> 00:07:27.829 that a man proposes in his heart to bring into 00:07:27.829 --> 00:07:30.269 the house of the Lord, let the priests take it 00:07:30.269 --> 00:07:33.350 themselves, each from his constituency, and let 00:07:33.350 --> 00:07:35.930 them repair the damages of the temple, wherever 00:07:35.930 --> 00:07:39.759 any dilapidation is found. Now it was so by the 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.879 twenty -third year of King Jehoash that the priests 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.480 had not repaired the damages of the temple. So 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.180 King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:50.180 other priests and said to them, Why have you 00:07:50.180 --> 00:07:52.610 not repaired the damages of the temple? Now therefore 00:07:52.610 --> 00:07:55.069 do not take more money from your constituency, 00:07:55.350 --> 00:07:58.269 but deliver it for repairing the damages of the 00:07:58.269 --> 00:08:00.730 temple. And the priests agreed that they would 00:08:00.730 --> 00:08:02.990 neither receive more money from the people nor 00:08:02.990 --> 00:08:06.170 repair the damages of the temple. Then Jehoiada 00:08:06.170 --> 00:08:09.180 the priest took a chest, bored a hole, in its 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:11.759 lid and set it beside the altar on the right 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:13.980 side as one comes into the house of the lord 00:08:13.980 --> 00:08:16.759 and the priests who kept the door put there all 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:18.839 the money brought into the house of the lord 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:21.779 so it was whenever they saw that there was so 00:08:21.779 --> 00:08:24.459 much money in the chest that the king's scribe 00:08:24.459 --> 00:08:27.459 and the high priest came up and put it in bags 00:08:27.459 --> 00:08:29.759 and counted the money that was found in the house 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.159 of the lord then they gave the money which had 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:34.600 been apportioned into the hands of those who 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:36.919 did the work who had the oversight of the house 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.659 of the lord and they paid it out to the carpenters 00:08:39.659 --> 00:08:41.980 and builders who worked on the house of the lord 00:08:41.980 --> 00:08:44.700 and to masons and stone cutters and for buying 00:08:44.700 --> 00:08:47.500 timber and hewn stone to repair the damage of 00:08:47.500 --> 00:08:49.659 the house of the lord and for all that was paid 00:08:49.659 --> 00:08:53.200 out to repair the temple however there were not 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:55.340 made for the house of the lord basins of silver 00:08:55.340 --> 00:08:59.080 trimmers sprinkling bowls trumpets any articles 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.779 of gold or articles of silver from the money 00:09:01.779 --> 00:09:03.940 brought into the house of the lord But they gave 00:09:03.940 --> 00:09:06.259 that to the workmen, and they repaired the house 00:09:06.259 --> 00:09:09.100 of the Lord with it. Moreover, they did not require 00:09:09.100 --> 00:09:12.220 an account from the men into whose hand they 00:09:12.220 --> 00:09:14.720 delivered the money to be paid to workmen, for 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.220 they dealt faithfully. The money from the trespass 00:09:17.220 --> 00:09:19.220 offerings and the money from the sin offerings 00:09:19.220 --> 00:09:21.539 was not brought into the house of the Lord. It 00:09:21.539 --> 00:09:24.799 belonged to the priests. Hazel, king of Syria, 00:09:25.019 --> 00:09:27.659 went up and fought against Gad and took it. Then 00:09:27.659 --> 00:09:30.250 Hazel set his face to go up to Jerusalem. And 00:09:30.250 --> 00:09:32.809 Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things 00:09:32.809 --> 00:09:35.690 that his fathers Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and 00:09:35.690 --> 00:09:38.690 Ahaziah kings of Judah had dedicated and his 00:09:38.690 --> 00:09:41.269 own sacred things and all the gold found in the 00:09:41.269 --> 00:09:43.389 treasuries of the house of the Lord and in the 00:09:43.389 --> 00:09:45.669 king's house and sent them to Haziel king of 00:09:45.669 --> 00:09:48.789 Syria. Then he went away from Jerusalem. Now 00:09:48.789 --> 00:09:51.110 the rest of the acts of Jehoash and all that 00:09:51.110 --> 00:09:53.529 he did are they not written in the book of the 00:09:53.529 --> 00:09:56.019 chronicles of the kings of Judah? And his servants 00:09:56.019 --> 00:09:58.759 arose and formed a conspiracy, and killed Joash 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:01.639 in the house of the Milo, which goes down to 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:05.519 Sila. For Jozakar, the son of Shemit, and Jehozabad, 00:10:05.779 --> 00:10:08.700 the son of Shomer, his servants struck him. So 00:10:08.700 --> 00:10:10.879 he died, and they buried him with his fathers 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.320 in the city of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:21.980 in his place. I hope you enjoyed today's reading 00:10:21.980 --> 00:10:24.289 as much as I did. And I look forward to seeing 00:10:24.289 --> 00:10:26.330 you again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 00:10:26.450 --> 00:10:28.129 God bless you and have a great day.