Today’s reading: 2Chronicles 31-33
2Chronicles 32.26 “26
However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come on them in the days of
Hezekiah.”
2Chronicles 33.12 “12
When he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and humbled himself
greatly before the God of his fathers.”
2Chronicles 33.23 “23
Moreover, he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had
done, but Amon multiplied guilt.”
In todays reading, the chronicler finishes
the reign of Hezekiah (2Chronicles 31-32), the fifty-five year reign of Manasseh (2Chronicles 32.01-20) and the brief two-year reign of Amon (2Chronicles 33.21-25).
The LORD delivered Hezekiah and
the Southern Kingdom from a perilous situation, (2Chronicles 32.01-22; 2Kings 19.20-35).
After this great deliverance,
Hezekiah’s heart was filled with pride (2Chronicles 32.25) and thus incurred the
wrath of the LORD on him as well as on the Southern Kingdom (2Chronicles 32.26). Sin affects others!
Manasseh was an evil wicked man,
went back to the apostate false religious system of his grandfather Ahaz, even
so much as sacrificing his sons (2Chronicles 28.03-04; 2Chronicles 33.01-09).
Because of the apostasy of
Manasseh and the Southern Kingdom, the LORD punished them by using Assyria to
come down and bound Manasseh and brought him to Babylon (2Chronicles 33.10-11). But like his father (and unlike his grandfather),
Manasseh repented before the LORD and soon was allowed back to his own land and
people (2Chronicles 33.12-13)!
The third king we are looking at
today is Amon. We are told that he did evil in the sight of the LORD like his
father Manasseh did (2Chronicles 33.22). He copied his father in all of his father’s idolatry,
but he did not copy his father and grandfathers humility and repent of his
sinful pride (2Chronicles 33.23).
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