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2 Kings 15 Bible study: So it came to pass
2 Kings 15 calls one king of Judah both Azariah and Uzziah, and Matthew's genealogy of Jesus uses Uzziah: "Uzziah became the father of Jotham" (Matthew 1:9). Of the five kings of Israel whose reigns it tells, four are killed by the man who reigns after them, the LORD's word to Jehu is kept, "So it came to pass" (15:12), and the king of Assyria first comes into Kings.
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“This was the LORD’s word which he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.”
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“2 Kings 15 calls the same king of Judah both Azariah and Uzziah.”
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A king who did right, in a separate house
Azariah son of Amaziah began to reign "in the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel" (15:1). "He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem" (15:2). His verdict is his father's: "He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done" (15:3), and then, "However, the high places were not taken away" (15:4). Then, in one verse and with no reason given: "The LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house" (15:5) (tap struck and separate). Meanwhile, "Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household, judging the people of the land" (15:5). Later in the chapter the same king is called Uzziah (15:13, 15:30, 15:32, 15:34): "Jotham his son reigned in his place" (15:7), and "Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign" (15:32).
Where it leads to Jesus
Uzziah's son and grandson, in Jesus' line
2 Kings 15:38leads toMatthew 1:9
"Azariah slept with his fathers" (15:7), and "Jotham his son reigned in his place" (15:7). The chapter calls Jotham "the son of Uzziah" (15:32), and it ends, "Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place" (15:38). Matthew's "book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David" (Matthew 1:1) names the same fathers and sons, "Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz" (Matthew 1:9), and runs on to "Jesus, who is called Christ" (Matthew 1:16). This chapter calls Jotham's father Azariah in seven verses (15:1, 15:6, 15:7, 15:8, 15:17, 15:23, 15:27) and Uzziah in four (15:13, 15:30, 15:32, 15:34); Matthew uses the name Uzziah. Matthew doesn't quote 2 Kings 15; he names the same fathers and sons.
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- Five kings of Israel, all dated by one king of Judah
- So it came to pass
- The king of Assyria comes into the story
- The same words, king after king, and two Jeroboams
- Kings and Chronicles side by side
- 12 questions as you read
- 10 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
גָּלָהgalahsay ga-LAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "uncover, remove", and for the causative form used here, "carry away into exile, take into exile". Strong's: "to denude", and "by implication, to exile". Tiglath Pileser took the cities and lands of the north, "and he carried them captive to Assyria" (15:29): in Hebrew, he carried them captive is one word, vayyaglem, followed by ashshurah, to Assyria. It is the first time 2 Kings uses the verb. From here it comes back again and again: the king of Assyria "carried Israel away to Assyria" (17:6), "So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria" (17:23), and at the end of the book, "So Judah was carried away captive out of his land" (25:21).
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2 Kings 15 Bible study questions
- 1Azariah lived in a separate house while "Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household, judging the people of the land" (15:5). When have you had to step back and let someone else carry what you used to carry, and how did you handle it?
- 2Menahem gave a thousand talents of silver "that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand" (15:19). What do people pay, in money or in other ways, to make their own place feel secure? What do you pay?
- 3"This was the LORD’s word which he spoke to Jehu… So it came to pass" (15:12). The word was spoken to Jehu and kept in the days of his great-great-grandson. What does it mean to you that God's word still stands after that long, and is there a word of his you are waiting to see?
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