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Who was King Zedekiah?

Who was King Zedekiah? An Introduction to the Last King to Rule Over Judah Tyler S. Fulcher The end of 2 Kings reads like a rapid-fire tragedy. The downfall of the Kingdom of Judah is cataclysmic. Although the events take years to develop. the narrator collapses time as he rushes the reader through the destruction […]

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2 Kings 25 Commentary

Commentary on 2 Kings 25 The End of the Kingdom of Judah ***This blog post is an on-going commentary on 2 Kings 25. I add new content to it regularly. 2 Kings 25:1 וַיְהִי֩ בִשְׁנַ֨ת הַתְּשִׁיעִ֜ית לְמָלְכ֗וֹ בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָעֲשִׂירִי֮ בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹר לַחֹדֶשׁ֒ בָּ֠א נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֨ר מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֜ל ה֧וּא וְכָל־חֵיל֛וֹ עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם וַיִּ֣חַן עָלֶ֑יהָ וַיִּבְנ֥וּ עָלֶ֖יהָ דָּיֵ֥ק סָבִֽיב׃ Now in the ninth year of his (Zedekiah’s) reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, the […]

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1 Kings 3:16-28

1 Kings 3:16-28 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ***This is an ongoing project. As I work through the passage, I will add more notes and commentary. 1 Kings 3:16 Notes This passage starts with the word “then” (אָ֣ז), which signals a change in time. In the previous story (1 Kgs 3:1-15), Solomon encountered YHWH in a dream at Gibeon. The […]

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1 Kings 6:11-13

1 Kings 6:11-13 | Bible Study Will God Live in the Temple? God’s Conditional Presence 1 Kings 6:11-13 interrupts a long description of the temple. We do well to pay attention to this interruption because it makes a shocking point. God’s presence isn’t guaranteed to be in the temple forever. As we’ve seen in previous […]