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2 Chronicles 25 Bible study: Much more than this
Only 2 Chronicles tells of the hundred talents: when Amaziah asked what to do about the silver he had paid for Israel's soldiers, the man of God said, "The LORD is able to give you much more than this" (25:9). And the king who did right "but not with a perfect heart" (25:2) went on to set up the gods of the people he had just defeated as his own (25:14).
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“Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.””
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Right, but not with a perfect heart
Amaziah "was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem" (25:1). His verdict is one short line: "He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart" (25:2) (tap perfect). 2 Kings tells the same reign with another measure: "He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, yet not like David his father" (2 Kings 14:3). 2 Chronicles has used the word before. Of Asa it said, "the heart of Asa was perfect all his days" (15:17), and Hanani the seer told Asa that the LORD shows himself strong "in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him" (16:9). Of Amaziah, the verse says not. It doesn't explain, but the chapter goes on to tell that he brought the gods of the children of Seir and bowed down before them (25:14), and it dates the plot against him "from the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD" (25:27).
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- Written in the law in the book of Moses
- What about the hundred talents?
- Gods that didn't deliver their own people
- The thistle and the cedar, told twice
- Power to help, and to overthrow
- More than a hundred talents
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- 9 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
שָׁלֵםshalemsay sha-LEIM
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "complete, safe, at peace". Strong's: "complete (literally or figuratively)". "He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart" (25:2). The Hebrew of 2 Chronicles has it five times. It was said of Asa, "the heart of Asa was perfect all his days" (15:17), and Hanani told Asa that the LORD shows himself strong "in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him" (16:9). 1 Kings uses it of Solomon: "his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was" (1 Kings 11:4). 2 Kings, telling Amaziah's reign, doesn't use it; it says "yet not like David his father" (2 Kings 14:3).
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2 Chronicles 25 Bible study questions
- 1"But what shall we do for the hundred talents?" (25:9). What have you already put in, money, time or effort, that makes it hard to do what you know is right?
- 2The king told the prophet, "Stop!" (25:16). When has someone told you what you didn't want to hear, and what helps you listen instead of shutting it down?
- 3Amaziah did right, "but not with a perfect heart" (25:2). Where in your life right now is your heart only partly in it, and what would a whole heart look like there this week?
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