06.07.2015 Old Testament: 2Ch 23.16–21

To read the Bible in a year, read Second Chronicles 23–25 on June 7, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead. Therefore, she killed all his sons, except for one that escaped, and made herself queen of Judah. Eventually the priest Jehoiada made himself strong enough to resist her and had her executed, and he made her grandson Joash the proper king of Judah. The priest wanted everyone to follow the Lord. So watch what he does,

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, the people, and the king, that they should be the Lord’s people. And all the people went to the temple of Baal, and tore it down…Also Jehoiada appointed the oversight of the house of the Lord to the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had assigned in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was established by David. And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the Lord, so that no one who was in any way unclean should enter. Then he took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the Lord; and they went through the Upper Gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom… (2 Chronicles 23.16–21). 

They committed themselves to the Lord and that meant that they had to remove the evil from their lives, and that they had to do things as the Bible taught and commanded.

Does that picture how you live?