May 28 Readings

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Today's reading 2 Kings 17-18; Matthew 15.1-20

2Kings 17
Hoshea was the last king of Israel (2Kings 17.3-7; 2Kings 18-9-12). Shalmaneser king of Assyria capture Samaria in 722 B.C. and deported the Israelites to Assyria. No one knows what happened to the ten tribes after that. Israel was exiled because they worshiped other gods and follow the practices of many nations. (v. 7-21). Samaria was resettled by other peoples who introduced other gods, and the inhabitants continued worshipping these gods. This happened for many generations and that was how the Samaritans came into existence in the times of Jesus from peoples from other nations intermarrying with the remaining peoples from the Northern Kingdom.


Figure 2Kings 17.26

Hezekiah
2Kings 18.2-4; 2Chronicles 29.1-2; 31.2
2Kings 18.5-7; 2Chronicles 31.20-21
2Kings 18.9-12; 2Kings 17.3-7

Hezekiah was a good king. Compare to the other good kings of Judah, he removed the high places and smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made so when the Israelites looked at it they were saved from the poisonous venoms. They were offering incense to the bronze snake.



Sennacherib threatens Jerusalem 2Kings 18.13, 17-37; Isaiah 36.1-22 and 2Kings 18.17-35; 2Chronicles 32.9-19.

Kings of Israel and Judah
Information on the Kings of Israel
Information on the Kings of Judah


2 Kings 17, with Commentaries, verse by verse
2 Kings 18, with Commentaries, verse by verse

Guzik on 2Kings 17
Guzik on 2Kings 18


Links to Commentaries and other References - Old Testament


Matthew 15, with Commentaries, verse by verse

Matthew 15

Matthew 15.1-20
Clean and unclean
Matthew 15.1-20; Mark 7.1-23

Guzik on Matthew
IVP Commentary on Matthew

Links to Commentaries and other References - Matthew

Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian

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