Tag: Zedekiah
August 28 – Jerusalem Falls
Reading 2 Kings 25:2-4a Jer. 39:2-5a; 52:9-11 2 Chron. 36:17 Jer. 52:12-14, 24-27a, 17-23; 39:9-10; 52:15-16, 27b-30 2 Chron. 36:20-21 2 Kings 25:22 Jer. 39:15-18, 11-14; 40:1-6 Devotional In 586 B.C., Babylon broke through the wall of Jerusalem and captured the city. The famine was so bad that there was literally nothing to eat. Apparently…
August 27 – Suffering Humbles the Proud
Reading Jer. 37:3-21; 38:1-28 Devotional It has been three or four years since Zedekiah king of Judah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. Zedekiah was a proud man who obviously thought he was in control of his people’s fate. Over the next few years, GOD would use Nebuchadnezzar to humble Zedekiah. Even the most proud…
August 22 – King Zedekiah Refuses Mercy
Reading Jer. 21:1-14; 22:1-9; 34:1-7; 32:1-44; 33:1-9 Devotional Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has surrounded the city of Jerusalem. Zedekiah, king of Judah, sends men to Jeremiah to inquire of GOD, hoping that GOD would all of a sudden deliver them from Nebuchadnezzar even though Jeremiah had been prophesying of these very events for years. Instead,…
August 10 – The Great Deportation
Reading 2 Kings 24:6b, 8-9 Jer. 22:24-30 2 Kings 24:10-12; 2 Chron. 36:10a 2 Kings 24:13-16; Dan. 1:2 2 Kings 24:17-18; Jer. 37:1 2 Kings 24:19-20a 2 Chron. 36:12, 13b-16; Jer. 37:2 Devotional After Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, died, his son Jehoiachin reigned in Jerusalem for three months. He was 18 when he became king and he…