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Today's reading 2Kings 15-16; John 3.1-18
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links: 2Kings 15; 2Kings 16
2Kings 15.1-7; 2Chronicles 26.3-4; 21-23
King Azariah of Judah (also known as King Uzziah) was a good king, he did not remove the high places and the people continued to offer sacrifices and incense there. The Lord afflicted Uzziah with leprsoy because he became proud and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. He reigned during the times of Isaiah.
Zechariah king of Israel, 2King 15.8-12, was an evil king.
Shallum, king of Israel, 2King 15.13-16, was an evil king.
Menahem, king of Israel, 2King 15.17-22, was an evil king.
Pekahiah, king of Israel, 2King 15.23-26, was an evil king.
Pekah, king of Israel, 2King 15.27-32, was an evil king.
Jotham, king of Judah, 2King 15.33-38, was a good king. , he did not remove the high places and the people continued to offer sacrifices and incense there.
2Kings 16
In 2Kings 16.1-20; 2Chronicles 28.1-27; describes the reign of Ahaz, king of Judah. Ahaz reigned during the ministry of Isaiah the Prophet, , he offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree. He put his trust in Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria to save Judah from Israel and Aram. He was rebuked by Isaiah in Isaiah 7. Ahaz stripped parts of the the temple and gave them as tribute to the king of Assyria.
Tiglath-Pileser, Pul, King of Assyria
Kings of Israel and Judah
Information on the Kings of Israel
Information on the Kings of Judah
Guzik on 2Kings 15
Guzik on 2Kings 16
2 Kings 15, with Commentaries, verse by verse
2 Kings 16, with Commentaries, verse by verse
Links to Commentaries and other References - Old Testament
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia links: John 3
John 3 with Commentaries, verse by verse
This is the great chapter of salvation where Jesus met with Nicodemus and spoke to him about the second birth. When you become a Christian you have two lives and one death. The two lives are your physical ife and your new life in Christ, the eternal life. You only experience the physical death. Non-Christians have one life and two deaths. They have the physical life, experience physical death and the second death, or eternal damnation.
John 3.16-21: 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[h]
In John 3.16, not everyone will be saved. the word to pay particular attention to is whoever believes in hum. Salvation is by grace through faith. It is not by works (Ephesians 2.8-9). Have you been born again from above?
Deffinbaugh Series on John
Ray Stedman on the Gospel of John
IVP Commentary on John
David Guzik's Commentary on John
Precept Austin on John
Links to Commentaries and other References - John
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian
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