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- Israel and Judah have both broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. 11 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries. 12 Then the people of Judah and Jerusalem will pray to their idols and burn incense before them.
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Keep the Sabbath Holy. 19 Thus said the Lord to me: “Go and stand in the People's Gate, by which () the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, 20 and say: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, () you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates. 21 Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and ...
Israel and Judah have both broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. 11 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries. 12 Then the people of Judah and Jerusalem will pray to their idols and burn incense before them.
30 Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.
- The Kingdom of Israel
- The Split
- What Can We Learn from This Story?
The Israelites' freedom journey to the Promised Land began with Moses leading them out of slavery in Egypt. God’s intention was that Israel would be a “holy nation” that exemplified God’s love and greatness to other nations. In order to live together in harmony, God established a covenant, the Ten Commandments. As in a sacred bond of marriage, fait...
Solomon built prominent places for the idols of his 300 wives and 700 concubines. These places of idolatry included the abhorrent practice of child sacrifice. "They do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods" (Deuteronomy 12:31). So the Lord said to Solomon, "Sin...
God is a gracious, loving God who wants to pour out abundant blessings on His people. Our part is to love Him, living by the agreements found in the Covenant, the sacred scriptures. When we do, God’s favor rests on our families, our land, and our government. When we don’t, evil rises. We, like Solomon, have drifted away from God as a nation. And lo...
Jul 3, 2013 · The people of Judah, the last descendants of the original nation of Israel, were guilty of adultery, of rejecting God their Husband for other lovers, namely, the false gods of Canaan (Jer. 2:4ï¾–37).
Jesus saw himself fulfilling a larger storyline that was told in His Bible, the Hebrew Bible, or as most Christians refer to it, the Old Testament. One of the most important events in Jesus’ Bible, which also changed Jewish history forever, is the Babylonian exile.
The revolt of Sheba (see 2 Samuel 20:1–2) could scarcely have been a real threat to David’s rule, but once again the animosity of the other tribes was manifested against Judah and resulted in the eventual division of the house of Israel (see 1 Kings 12).
