Just a few thoughts on some of the events in these two chapters:
- 15:3-5 He walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him... Nevertheless for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem; because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord."
- I'm astounded by the mercy God shows to Abijam. All for the sake of David, who is long dead by this time. But because of David's faithfulness, God tells us that mercy was given to his wicked great-grandson. Wow!
- 15:29-30 And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of Jeroboam... because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
- This is nearly exactly the opposite of what happened with David's descendants. Instead of mercy being shown for an ancestor's faithfulness we see destruction because of the sins of the forefather.
- The same thing happens again in 16: 13-14 for the same reasons. Some people just gotta learn the hard way...
- Don't be that person.
- 16: 34 - Hiel of Bethel rebuilds Jericho and loses two of his sons in the process. Just as Joshua had prophesied in Joshua 6:26.
Yup. Pretty much just like that.
- This is one of those small things recorded in the Bible that sets me to wondering about all the unrecorded details of the event. Did Hiel not know about the curse? Did he not believe in it, kinda like a ghost story? Or perhaps he just hated his sons? Murder by prophecy? What must must have teh youngest son been thinking when he saw his older brother had bought the farm? Did he even suspect what was coming? So many questions...
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