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2 Chronicles 23 Bible study: The king's son must reign
Jehoiada says to the assembly, "Behold, the king’s son must reign, as the LORD has spoken concerning the sons of David" (23:3), eight verses before the king's son is brought out (23:11). And where 2 Kings has the Carites and the guard around the king, 2 Chronicles has the Levites (23:7).
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“Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.”
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“In 2 Chronicles 23, Jehoiada and his sons anointed the king.”
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In the seventh year
The chapter before ended with the king's son "hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land" (22:12). Then: "In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself" (23:1) (tap strengthened himself). He took the captains of hundreds into a covenant with him, and 2 Chronicles names all five: "Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri" (23:1). 2 Kings, telling the same day, names none of them (2 Kings 11:4). "They went around in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem" (23:2).
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- "The king’s son must reign"
- Only the holy may come in
- A crown, a covenant, and a quiet city
- "As the LORD has spoken"
- Two Hebrew words behind "covenant"
- "As David had ordered"
- 11 questions as you read
- 12 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
בְּרִיתberitsay be-REET
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "covenant", and among its uses, "between monarch and subjects". Strong's: "a compact". The chapter has berit three times. Jehoiada takes the captains "into a covenant with him" (23:1); "All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house" (23:3); and "Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD’s people" (23:16). The Hebrew of 2 Chronicles has the word 17 times, and two chapters back it was the LORD's own covenant: "the LORD would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David" (21:7).
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2 Chronicles 23 Bible study questions
- 1"Jehoiada strengthened himself" (23:1) before he acted, after six hidden years. What helps you find courage to do what is right when it will cost you something?
- 2The covenant was "that they should be the LORD’s people" (23:16), and next the people broke down the house of Baal (23:17). What competes with God for first place in your life right now?
- 3The chapter ends "with rejoicing and with singing" (23:18), and "the city was quiet" (23:21). Where do you most need God's quiet this week, and how could your group help?
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