{"id":1618,"date":"2022-03-04T06:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:35:49","slug":"2-kings-14-16-2-chronicles-25-28-amaziah-uzziah-azariah-jotham-and-ahaz-lesson-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/04\/2-kings-14-16-2-chronicles-25-28-amaziah-uzziah-azariah-jotham-and-ahaz-lesson-11\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Kings 14-16; 2 Chronicles 25-28: Amaziah, Uzziah (Azariah), Jotham, and Ahaz Lesson 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Key Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behold, the\neye of the LORD is<\/em> upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his\nmercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Psalm 33:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Verse Thought: <\/strong>Read the key verse. What does it mean to fear\nthe Lord? (A good example is Job. \u201c\u2026 Job; and that\nman was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil\u201d\nJob 1:1. He showed his fear by turning from evil.) To fear God is to obey His\nword. Church is a good place to learn God\u2019s Word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis: <\/strong>To recognize the importance of frequenting the house of\nthe Lord often, knowing that it is there we will learn the fear of the Lord,\nseeking his mercy upon our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson Summary: <\/strong>In the lesson before Joel, we remembered the last\ntwo who reigned in Judah:\nAthaliah (an illegitimate queen), and Joash (a good king). Although King Joash\nmade great reformations, he forgot God after Jehoiada (his uncle the priest) died.\n     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, we have learned of\nthe first eight kings of Judah,\nwith only three good kings so far. In this lesson, we continue in our study of\nthe kings of Judah.\nWe will look at the next four kings of Judah.\nWhen Joash was killed, his son Amaziah became king. He reigned for 29 years and\nwas a good king. After killing the servants who killed his father, he began his\nreign relying upon God. Nevertheless, like many kings before him, he forgot\nGod. It was then that God\u2019s anger was kindled against Amaziah. When Amaziah\nchallenged the king of Israel,\nJoash, and they fought, he lost the battle. Amaziah turned away from following\nthe Lord, and conspirators killed him in Lachish.\nHis son, Uzziah, became king.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uzziah reigned for 52 years,\ndid that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and did much good for Judah.\nMoreover, God blessed him. Uzziah defeated enemies around, built up the cities,\nthe army, and the defenses of the cities in Judah.\nHowever, when he was strong, his heart was lifted up. He went to the temple to\nperform the duty of the priest (he could not because he was not a priest). When\nrebuked by the priests, he rejected that rebuke, and God struck him with\nleprosy. His son, Jotham, judged the people until he died.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Uzziah\u2019s death, Jotham became king. He did right in the eyes of the Lord, but he never entered the house of the Lord. When he died, his son Ahaz became king. He was a very bad king \u2013 for he did not right in the eyes of the Lord, but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He made images for Baalim and burnt his children in the fire to false idols. God delivered him into the hand of Syria. When rebuked by God\u2019s prophet, not only did he reject the rebuke, but he also sought help from another enemy nation. Instead of helping, that enemy nation took more. Ahaz shut up the house of the Lord and made altars in every corner of the city \u2013 provoking the anger of God. When he died, his son, Hezekiah, became king. We will learn about him in our next lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q2 – Lesson 11 Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q2 – Lesson 11 Children’s Worksheets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are doing this lesson with younger children, the following is a craft idea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Key Verse Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. \u2014Psalm 33:18 Key Verse Thought: Read the key verse. What does it mean to fear the Lord? (A good example is Job. \u201c\u2026 Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[793],"tags":[742,738,892,889,891,774,794,890,753],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-two-quarter-two","tag-2-chronicles","tag-2-kings","tag-ahaz","tag-amaziah","tag-jotham","tag-lesson-11","tag-quarter-two","tag-uzziah","tag-year-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}