{"id":1638,"date":"2022-03-10T06:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2022-03-10T06:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:15:01","slug":"lesson-12-2-kings-18-20-2-chronicles-29-32-hezekiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/10\/lesson-12-2-kings-18-20-2-chronicles-29-32-hezekiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 12: 2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chronicles 29-32: Hezekiah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Key Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For whatsoever\nthings were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through\npatience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Romans 15:4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Verse Thought: <\/strong>Read the key verse. Not only is the Bible\nwritten for our learning, but also by watching as God revealed Himself mightily\nto His people when they obeyed His Word, it not only comforts us, but gives us\nhope \u2013 a confidence that God keeps each and every promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis: <\/strong>We are to recognize God\u2019s Word was given so we could have\nconfidence that God will hear anyone who will call upon Him with a repentant\nheart. God will then reveal himself mightily to all of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson Summary: <\/strong>We have now learned about the first twelve kings of\nJudah, with\nonly six good kings so far. After ending on such a sour note in our last lesson\n(remember wicked King Ahaz), it is quite refreshing to learn of the best king Judah\never had \u2013 King Hezekiah. \u201cHe trusted in the LORD God\nof Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah,\nnor any<\/em> that were before him\u201d (2 Kings 18:5). Hezekiah was 25\nwhen he became king and reigned for 29 years. \u201cAnd he\ndid that which was<\/em> right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that\nDavid his father had done\u201d (2 Chronicles 29:2). In the first month of\nthe first year of King Hezekiah\u2019s reign, he \u201copened\nthe doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them\u201d (2 Chronicles\n29:3). Not only that, but he reestablished the offices of the priests and\nLevites. After acknowledging the nation\u2019s sin, King Hezekiah led the people in\nthe reestablishment of the broken relationship between God and His people by\nreinstituting the Temple worship.\nAfter this, King Hezekiah sent letters to all of Judah,\ncalling them to keep the Passover. Hezekiah led the people by example when he\nbrought great offerings into the house of the Lord. Once the people began\nbringing their first fruits into the Temple,\nthere was such abundance; they had to build extra storage space. What they did\nnot know, was that in their obedience to God\u2019s commands, God was preparing them\nfor the future siege by their enemy. Sennacherib, king of Syria,\nsent his army to besiege Jerusalem.\nHezekiah prepared and encouraged the people. Then he prayed for God\u2019s\ndeliverance. God answered by defeating the enemy for them. In this mighty\nvictory, all of the nations around recognized God\u2019s hand in the\ndeliverance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next thing we read about\nKing Hezekiah was that he was sick unto death. When he prayed, God extended his\nlife by 15 years. God gave him a sign \u2013 the sun\u2019s shadow went backward ten\ndegrees. However, we also learn of a very foolish thing King Hezekiah did\ntoward the end of his life, and the consequences of that foolish act that would\ncome.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The period of King Hezekiah\u2019s reign can be considered the greatest revival Judah experienced. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead\u201d (2 Kings 20:21). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q2 – Lesson 12<\/a><\/strong> in full<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q2 – Lesson 12 Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q2 – Lesson 12 Children’s Worksheets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you choose to do this lesson with younger children, the following is a craft idea to go along with this lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We made Bible markers and added stickers. This was to remind us of how important God’s Word was to King Hezekiah.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key Verse For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. \u2014Romans 15:4 Key Verse Thought: Read the key verse. Not only is the Bible written for our learning, but also by watching as God revealed Himself mightily to His people […]<\/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":[742,738,896,696,775,794,897,207,753],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-two-quarter-two","tag-2-chronicles","tag-2-kings","tag-good-king","tag-hezekiah","tag-lesson-12","tag-quarter-two","tag-sennacherib","tag-temple","tag-year-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}