1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Life Audio how to their faithful listeners, and welcome to 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: the Bible Explained Podcasts on this lovely Wednesday morning. Today, 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: we're in second Chronicles twenty one. We're gonna be talking 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: about the whole chapter and discussing the life and death 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: of josh Fat's son. This is a tragic, tragic story, 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: so we'll get into it in just a second. Well, 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: faithful listeners. It is currently nine degrees outside. Earlier today 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: it got down to about four degrees. It was terrible, 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: absolutely terrible. 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Now, before we get into today's topic, 20 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: do me a favor by listening to a quick word 21 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: from a sponsor. Okay, like I said at the beginning 22 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: of the intro, We're gonna be talking about this guy 23 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: named Jehorah, who is the son of Jehashafat. We're gonna 24 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: be talking about his entire life. Actually, there's not a 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: lot on him because of how terrible he really was. 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: So let's read Second Chronicles twenty one the entire chapter. 27 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: As always, I'll be reading from the web. Grab your 28 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: delicious hot beverage, because if you live up north, you're 29 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: gonna need it a little bit cold. Today. Let's read 30 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: Second Chronicles twenty one the entire thing. I'll be reading 31 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: from the web. Jehashafat slept with his fathers and was 32 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: buried with his fathers in David City, and Jehorah, his son, 33 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:57,559 Speaker 1: reigned in his place. He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshafat, Azariah, Jehiel, Zachariah, Azaria, Michael, 34 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: and Shafadia. All these are the sons of Jahah Ashafat, 35 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: king of Israel. Their father gave them great gifts of silver, 36 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah. 37 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: But he gave the kingdom to Jehorah because he was 38 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: the first born. Now, when Jehoah had risen up over 39 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: the kingdom of his father and had strengthened himself. He 40 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some 41 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: of the princes of Israel. Jehoah was thirty two years 42 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight 43 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: years in Jerusalem. He walked in the way of the 44 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: kings of Israel, as did Ahab's house, for he had 45 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: Ahab's daughter as his wife. He did that which was 46 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: evil in Yahweh's sight. However, Yahweh would not destroy David's 47 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: house because of the covenant that he had made with David, 48 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: and as he promised to give a lamp to him 49 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: and his children always in his days. Edom revolted from 50 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: under the hand of Judah and made a king over themselves. 51 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: Then Jehoorah went there with his captains and all his 52 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: chariots with him. He rose up by night and struck 53 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of 54 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 1: the chariots. So Edom has been in revolt from under 55 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted 56 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: at the same time from under his hand, because he 57 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: had forsaken Yahweh, the god of his fathers. Moreover, he 58 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: made high places in the mountains of Judah and made 59 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute, and led Judah astray. 60 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: A letter came to him from Elijah the Prophet, saying, Yahweh, 61 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 1: the God of David, your father, says, because you have 62 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: not walked in the ways of Jehashafat, your father, nor 63 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 1: in the ways of Asa king of Judah, but have 64 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and 65 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play 66 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: the prostitute like Ahab's house did, and also have slain 67 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself. Behold, 68 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including 69 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: your children, your wives, and all your possessions. And you 70 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: will have a great sickness, with a disease of your bowels, 71 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness. 72 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: Day by day, Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram. The spirit 73 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are beside 74 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: the Ethiopians came up against Judah, broke into it and 75 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: carried away all the possessions that were found in the 76 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: king's house, including his sons and his wives, so that 77 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: there was no son left to him except Jehoah Has, 78 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: the youngest of his sons. After all this, Yahweh struck 79 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,799 Speaker 1: him in his bowels with an incurable disease in process 80 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: of time. At the end of two years, his bowels 81 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died 82 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, 83 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: like the burning of his father's. He was thirty two 84 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,679 Speaker 1: years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 85 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: in Jerusalem eight years. He departed with no one's regret. 86 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: They buried him in David's city, but not in the 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: tombs of the kings. On Monday, we talked about the 88 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: end of jehoshah Hat's reign and how he was a 89 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: pretty good king. You know, he loved Yahweh. He set 90 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: his heart to seek after Yahweh. He was not a 91 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: perfect man by any means. He compromised a few times 92 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: in his life, but generally he was a pretty good king, 93 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: and God blessed his reign because he was a Yahweh follower. 94 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: Our passage for today second Chronicles twenty one, it says 95 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: in verse one that Jehashafat slept with his fathers and 96 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: was buried with his fathers in David's city, and Jehorah, 97 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: his son, reigned in his place. Now, Jehorah was mentioned 98 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: very very briefly before this, where it talked about jehosh 99 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: Fat and King Ahab being in an agreement with each other, 100 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: and with that agreement came the marriage of their two children. 101 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: So Ahab's daughter actually married Jehoshaphat's son, and that ended 102 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: up being a really, really terrible thing for Jehoshaphat to do, 103 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: because Ahab's family was absolutely corrupt and evil and wicked 104 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: and cruel and pretty much the scum of the earth. 105 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: Quite honestly, they were terrible, terrible people for many reasons. 106 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: Just they would kill people left and right, didn't care 107 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: about human life, only cared about themselves. They were idolators. 108 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 1: And you know, Ahab and his wife Jezebel were big 109 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: bail worshippers, so obviously their children would be two. Now, Jehoshapha, 110 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: who is a Yahweh follower, shouldn't have married his son 111 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: into such a corrupt family. And we see now why 112 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: that is It says in verse two that Jehorah had brothers, 113 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: the sons of Jehashafat, and their names were Azariah, jaheel Zechariah, Azaria, Michael, 114 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: and Shafadia. All these were the sons of Jehashafat, king 115 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: of Israel. Now, I think it's really funny here that 116 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,239 Speaker 1: scripture mentions that Jehashafat was the king of Israel, because 117 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: Israel and Judah were split off by this point, and 118 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: Jehoshaphat was considered to be the king of Judah, not 119 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: of Israel. Israel was its own separate entity. Israel had 120 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: gone through a civil war and split off. But yet 121 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: Scripture here says that Jehashafat was the king of Israel. 122 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: And there could be a few reasons for this. The 123 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: first reason being that because Jehoshafat was such a good 124 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: king in the eyes of God, he deemed Jehashafat worthy 125 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: of being the king of both Judah and Israel. That's 126 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: the first explanation. The second explanation is that the Judites 127 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: were technically Israelites, like they were all just Israelites, and 128 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: so that's why you know, the author words it this way. 129 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: The third explanation is that so many Israelites had moved 130 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: from Israel into Judah that Judah essentially became Israel. We 131 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: know that during the reign of King Ahab in Israel, 132 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: things were really, really, really bad in Israel because of 133 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: the famine and the drought and the persecution that was 134 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: taking place with Jezebel, not to mention just the cruelty 135 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: that was happening. There was a story where King Ahab, 136 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: at the prodding of his wife Jezebel, just like murdered 137 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: a man and all of his children for just a 138 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: few acres of land. That is the type of king 139 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: and queen that Ahab and Jezebel were. So things were 140 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: just bad in Israel in general, so probably a lot 141 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: of people wanted to leave, not to mention that Jezebel 142 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: was trying to eradicate Yahwism the people who worshiped Yahweh, 143 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: So probably all of them, the ones that could leave, 144 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: actually did leave and went down south to Judah, where 145 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: it was safer to actually worship Yahweh and where the 146 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: temple was also. But getting back to my main point, 147 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: it could be that scripture mentions Jehashaphat as being the 148 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: king of Israel because of the amount of Israelites that 149 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: actually left Israel and went into Judah. But it says 150 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: that Jehashafat had seven sons, it does not mention any 151 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: of Johashafat's wives. By the way, we could probably assume 152 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 1: that Jehashafat had more than one wife, because that was 153 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: very normal for a king to do. But it's also 154 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,599 Speaker 1: not out of the realm of possibility for Johashafat to 155 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: have had one wife who bore him seven sons. I 156 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: actually know women personally who have had that many children, 157 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: and back in these days, a woman would have started 158 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,439 Speaker 1: having children at a much younger age and would have 159 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 1: produced a lot more children than women do nowadays. So 160 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: it is a possibility that Johashafat had only one wife. 161 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: Out of all of the kings, we see maybe one 162 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: or two actually following the biblical command of having one wife. 163 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know if Johashfat was 164 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: one of the few kings that actually had one wife 165 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: as the Bible says to do, or if he had 166 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: multiple wives and these boys all came from multiple women. 167 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: Do not know. But getting back to the main story, 168 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: it says that their father in verse three gave them 169 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things 170 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom 171 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: to Jehoram because he was the first born. Now, this 172 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: was something that Raya Boam, Jehashfat's grandfather had initially done, 173 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: and the reason for spreading the sons out among the 174 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: kingdom was to both establish the sons as leaders in 175 00:09:55,320 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: their individual communities and also keep them away from Jerusalem 176 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: where there might be a power struggle for the crown. Honestly, 177 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: it was a really good idea, and Jehosha Fat, who 178 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,599 Speaker 1: was a good king and had good ideas, followed that 179 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: principle of spreading his sons out across Judah so that 180 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: there was no power struggle for the crown. So he 181 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: sent the sons out except for Jehorah, because Jehorah, says, 182 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,719 Speaker 1: was the first born. Now, unfortunately, the one thing we 183 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: see with johash Fat, one of his flaws was that 184 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: he didn't have very good discernment toward people's characters, which 185 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:39,319 Speaker 1: is why he kept partnering with really bad kings. He 186 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,599 Speaker 1: didn't see how evil his son was. He didn't have 187 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: good discernment with that, and he just followed the rules 188 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: of allowing his firstborn son to become the next king, 189 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: even though he probably should have given the crown to 190 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 1: one of his other sons. It does mention that the 191 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: brothers had much better character than Jehorah did. So out 192 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: of all of the sons that Jehoshaphat had, Jehorah was 193 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: the worst of the bunch. And yet that was who 194 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: Jehashafat gave the crown to. Unfortunately, and now Jehoshaphat's dead 195 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: and Jehorah's character is coming out. It says in verse four, Now, 196 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: when Jehoah had risen up over the kingdom of his 197 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: father and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers 198 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 1: with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel. 199 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: Now this is really sad because this was needless death, 200 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: because Jehoorah's brothers were better than him. They were not 201 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: vying for the throne that we know of, and they 202 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: were established in their own hometowns, being leaders in those hometowns. 203 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: And not only that, it says that Jehoorah also killed 204 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: some of the princes of Israel. So some of the 205 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: leaders of the tribes as well, just anyone he perceived 206 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: as a threat. This was really awful and wicked behavior. Now, 207 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 1: a lot of commentaries that you read on this passage 208 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 1: might claim Jehorah's wife, Ahazia, persuaded Jehorah to go out 209 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: and kill all of these brothers of his but there's 210 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: nothing in scripture that specifically says that, though it does 211 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: say that Jehoorah was certainly influenced by his wife's family. 212 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: So we don't know what Ajazia's role was in all 213 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: of this, but I definitely if she didn't give him 214 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: the idea, she was probably totally on board with it 215 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: and just did not care because she was a wicked person. 216 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: And going back to verse four, he kills all of 217 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: his brothers and all of these princes of Israel, terrible 218 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: thing to do. Verse five says Jehorah was thirty two 219 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 1: years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 220 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,599 Speaker 1: eight years in Jerusalem. He walked in the way of 221 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: the kings of Israel, as did Ahab's house, for he 222 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: had Ahab's daughter as his wife. He did that, which 223 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: was evil in Yawei's sight. So there you go. Jehorah 224 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: was certainly influenced by his wife's family. However, verse seven, 225 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: Yahweh would not destroy David's house because of the covenant 226 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: that he had made with David, and as he promised 227 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 1: to give a lamp to him and to his children always. 228 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: So even though Jehoorah was a terrible, terrible king, probably 229 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: the worst king that Judah has seen so far, God 230 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: would not destroy David's house because he promised David so 231 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: many years prior to this that he would have one 232 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: of his sons on the throne forever. And God upheld 233 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: that promise, as we all know, because Jesus is of 234 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: the line of David, and Jesus is the king of kings, 235 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: and he's going to reign forever. So God would not 236 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: destroy David's house. As evil as Johoorah was, God cannot 237 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,719 Speaker 1: break his promises. It says in verse eight that in 238 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: his days, Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah 239 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: and made a king over themselves. Then Jehorah went there 240 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: with his captains and all his chariots with him, rose 241 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, 242 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: along with the captains of the chariots. So Edom has 243 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: been in revolt from under the hand of Judah to 244 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from 245 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: under his hand because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God 246 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: of his father's. So immediately there's a bunch of problems 247 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: happening internationally. And we see that this is often the 248 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: first sign of a very bad king is when foreign 249 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: nations start to revolt. That's the first sign that this 250 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: king is a bad king, because God does not bless 251 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: evil kings. When a good king is in place, there 252 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: is peace for that nation, But when an evil king 253 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: is in place, there is no peace in that nation. 254 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: So Edom immediately revolts, even though under a Jehashaphat they 255 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: had been subject to Israel. Now what that means is 256 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: they paid a tax to Israel every single year. And 257 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: also Libnah revolted at the same time time as Edom. 258 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: So now Jehoram has no control of these nations any longer, 259 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: and they remained in revolt the entire time. And it 260 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: says this happened because Jehorah had forsaken Yahweh, the God 261 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: of his fathers. On top of all this, verse eleven, 262 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: he made high places in the mountains of Judah and 263 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: made the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute and led 264 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: Judah astray. Everything that Jehorah and Asa had done years 265 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: before him has just been undone in a matter of 266 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: eight years, that is how long Jehorah reigned. And in 267 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: those eight years, everything that his fathers had done to 268 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: destroy the cults out of Jerusalem is back. That is 269 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: how fast things can change when people turn away from Yahweh. 270 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: This kind of stuff happens. That is how fast the 271 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: hearts of people change. And Jehorah made high places once again. 272 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: Remember how Asa and jehash Fat kept destroying the high 273 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: places but didn't get them all. Well, they're all back now, 274 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: they're all back in the mountains of Judah. So on 275 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: all the mountains in Judah, he placed a high place 276 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: that would be a place where people could go and 277 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: worship whatever deity they wanted to worship. There were some 278 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: high places dedicated to Yahweh, as we've discussed before, but 279 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: God didn't even like those places because it was just idolatry. 280 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: It was not how worship was supposed to be done, 281 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: and it was pagan in nature. Also, because that's how 282 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: the pagans would worship. They would go to you know, 283 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: mountain tops and green trees and natural kind of settings, 284 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: and they'd start worshiping however they wanted to worship, so 285 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: God hated the high places completely. It says that Jerusalem 286 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: played the prostitute with these high places, and that means 287 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: two different things. So the sex cults were back, okay. 288 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: As we've talked about before, pretty much all the foreign 289 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: idols included some sort of like nudity or exposing yourself 290 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: in some way or sex like. They were just like 291 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: weird sex cults. Aheb and Jezebel and presumably their daughter 292 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:18,719 Speaker 1: who was Jehoram's wife, were all bail worshippers. Bail worship 293 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: specifically included the worship of human excrement. And in order 294 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: to worship this excrement, there is like a toilet shaped 295 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: idol bowl that people would go to in public and 296 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: they would lift up their skirt and they would take 297 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: down their underpants. They'd expose themselves publicly and they would 298 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: defecate in the toilet bowl. Then they would worship the 299 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: poop and the poop would be spread on all the crops. 300 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 1: And we know now scientifically that spreading human excrement like 301 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: just raw human excrement on crops is really really bad 302 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: for your health. You can process the human excrement and 303 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 1: make it into something a little bit different, but spreading 304 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: raw poop on your crops and then eating whatever comes 305 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: up from that, that's really really bad for you. You 306 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: should not do that. But that's what the ancient Israelites 307 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: were doing through this bail worship. Now to mention the 308 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,959 Speaker 1: other sex cults that were taking place and the Malik worship, 309 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: where you know, these little babies were getting killed through 310 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: human sacrifice in the most disgusting ways possible. Jehoahm brought 311 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 1: all of this idolatry into Jerusalem, and they played the 312 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: prostitute and led Judah astray. When the rest of Jerusalem 313 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: sees what the kings are doing and what Jerusalem, the 314 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: hub of Judah, is doing, they start doing the exact 315 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: same thing they led Judah astray. So in verse twelve, 316 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: here's an interesting verse. A letter came to Jehorah from 317 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: Elijah the prophet saying, Yahweh, the God of David, your 318 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: father says, because you have not walked in the ways 319 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: of jehash Fat your father, nor in the ways of 320 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: Asa came of Judah, but have walked in the way 321 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and 322 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab's 323 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: house did, and also have slain your brothers from your 324 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: father's house, who were better than yourself. Behold, Yahweh will 325 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: strike your people with a great plague, including your children, 326 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: your wives, and all your possessions. And you will have 327 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: a great sickness, with a disease of your bowels, until 328 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day 329 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:32,479 Speaker 1: by day. Now here's what's interesting about those verses. They 330 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 1: were written by Elijah the prophet. However, most people assume 331 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: that Elijah had already gotten swept up into Heaven by 332 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: this point, because remember, Elijah was one of the few 333 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: people in scripture to have not died. There's only two 334 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: that we know of Elijah and also Enoch. They never died. 335 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: God just like swept them up into heaven. Essentially, the 336 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: last thing we see Elijah doing was in Second King's 337 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: Chapter one one, where he was prophesying to Ahazia, Ahab's son. 338 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: That's the last thing we see Elijah do, and then 339 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: the very next chapter he gets, you know, taken up 340 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: into heaven, and Ahazia, Ahab's son was alive very briefly 341 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: during the reign of Jehashafat, so if Elijah was carried 342 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: to heaven directly after that, that means he would have 343 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 1: been gone by the time Jehoram even became the king, 344 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: several years after that took place. So some people wonder 345 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: was this actually a letter from Elijah the prophet, And 346 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: there's a few explanations that people give for this. They say, no, 347 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: it was not a letter from Elijah the prophet. It 348 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 1: was a letter from Elisha the prophet, who was writing 349 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: the letter in Elijah's name, because that prophecy had been 350 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: given to Elisha by Elijah many years prior to this, 351 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: and now Elishah has written it down and signed it 352 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: in Elijah's name because it was originally Elijah's prophecy. That's 353 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: the first explanation. The second is that this was a 354 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: different Elijah the prophet, not the famous one that we know. 355 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 1: The third explanation is that Elijah was still on earth 356 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: at this time, because we don't have a date of 357 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: Elijah being swept up into heaven. The last thing we 358 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: see him doing was prophesying to Hazia, probably around ten 359 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 1: years before Jehorah even became the king. But that doesn't 360 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: mean that Elijah wasn't alive for all that time. He 361 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: could have been laying low, he could have been training Elisha, 362 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: he could have been writing letters. For all we know. 363 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: We don't know what Elijah was doing during that time, 364 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 1: so it's possible he was still alive for another ten 365 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years after the last story we read about 366 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: him prophesying in Second King's chapter one. And maybe he 367 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: did actually write this letter right before he was swept 368 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: up into heaven. That's another explanation. And the last explanation 369 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 1: I saw is that Elijah was indeed swept up into heaven. 370 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: But he's a prophet and God told him the future, 371 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: so he knew what was going to happen because of 372 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 1: God's words to him. So he wrote this letter ahead 373 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: of time, and he told Elisha or one of the 374 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: other prophets that he worked with to make sure that 375 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: this letter gets to Jehorah by a specific date or 376 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: something like that. So there's many possibilities. I kind of 377 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: leaned toward either Elijah was still alive at this time. 378 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 1: Or that he had already been carried up into heaven 379 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: but had previously written this letter. And if that's the case, 380 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: like if Elijah had already been whirlwinded up into heaven, 381 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: imagine the doom Jehorah would have felt receiving this letter. 382 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: That Elijah knew that this was going to happen a decade, 383 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: possibly before Jehoorah even became the king, So that's really 384 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: crazy to think about if that's actually the case. However, 385 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: Johoorah was not convinced because he never changed his ways. 386 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: It says in verse sixteen that he always stirred up 387 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: against Jehoah, the spirit of the Philistines and of the 388 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians, and they came up 389 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: against Judah broke into it and carried away all the 390 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: possessions that were found in the king's house, including his 391 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: sons and his wives, so that there was no son 392 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: left to him except Jehoah has the youngest of his sons. 393 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: So this is kind of a fitting end for him, 394 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: as Jehorah killed all of his father's sons. Now all 395 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: of Jehorah's sons have been killed except for one little son, 396 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: and that's because God was going to maintain David's line, 397 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: even though Jehoorah was a terrible king. One son was left, 398 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: and it was the youngest of all the sons. Not 399 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: to mention, all of Jehorah's wives were carried off into 400 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,239 Speaker 1: these foreign nations as well, which is a pretty sad thing. Now. 401 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: I don't know about the other prophecy that is mentioned 402 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: in Elijah's letter that says that there'd be a plague 403 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: on all of the people. That could have happened. Actually, 404 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: when the Philistines and the Arabians went into Judah, maybe 405 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: they spread something around and that killed a lot of 406 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: the people of Judah. We don't know what happened there, 407 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: But it could also be that God was talking about 408 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: a plague of enemies coming in and destroying all of 409 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 1: these things that Judah had. But verse eighteen to conclude 410 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: Jehorah's life, it says, after all this, Yahwesh struck him 411 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: in his bowels with an incurable disease. In process of time, 412 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: at the end of two years, his bowels fell out 413 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. 414 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: So this is real bad. That is a bad disease, 415 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 1: And I looked online to see what kind of disease 416 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: Jehorah might have had, and there's some argument actually about it. 417 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: Some people think that he had colon or rectal cancer. 418 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: Other people think that it was a rectal prolapse. Whatever 419 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: it was, it was really bad, especially where doctors back 420 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: in these days had no clue what to do in 421 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: a situation like this. This was bad, but Jehorah never 422 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: turned toward God even though all of this was happening. 423 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: Even though he received that letter from Elijah, who was 424 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: possibly already in heaven, Jehoram never changed his ways. It 425 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: says that he died after two years, presumably in severe pain. 426 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: His people made no burning for him, like the burning 427 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 1: of his father's that's talking about the big bonfire that 428 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,480 Speaker 1: the kings would get after they died. This was in 429 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: honor of their lives. He did not receive that. It 430 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: says he was thirty two years old when he began 431 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years. 432 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: He departed with no one's regret. They buried him in 433 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: David's city, but not in the tombs of the kings, 434 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 1: so no one cared when this king died. That is 435 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: how hated he was, so many problems happened to Judah 436 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: during this man's reign. Firstly Edom revolted, then Libnah revolted. 437 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: Then all of these high places start going up. Then 438 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: the Philistines and the Arabians invade Judah and are fully successful. 439 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: The people hated Jehoram by the end of his life, 440 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: and when he died, there was no sympathy for him. 441 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: There was no burning for him, No one cared. It 442 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: doesn't even say that his wife Athalia cared, which, by 443 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: the way, for some reason, when the Philistines invaded Judah, 444 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: they did leave Athalia behind, who seemed to be the 445 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 1: main wife of Jehoram, and then they also left Jehoram's 446 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: youngest son as well, So for some reason, Athalia was 447 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: left behind after the invasion of the Philistines. But it 448 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: says that he was buried in David's city in Jerusalem, 449 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: but not in the tombs of the kings, probably because 450 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: of this disease, also because the people hated him, but 451 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: they didn't want him with his severe diseases, to defile 452 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: the tombs of the other beloved kings, which is why 453 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: they did not bury him in any of the Tombs 454 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: of David. So that is the sad and tragic life 455 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 1: and existence of Jehoram, the son of jehosh Fat. So 456 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you guys listening to the end. 457 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 1: And before I end today's episode, here is a quick 458 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: word from a sponsor or two. Even though the life 459 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: of Jehorah is done, the craziness is not over. In fact, 460 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: things get much much crazier in Judah's history in the 461 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: next chapter and the following chapters. Specifically regarding Jehorah's wife, 462 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: she kind of goes insane, as we're going to see 463 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: in the next couple chapters. So I hope you guys 464 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: have been enjoying the chronicles and the lives of these kings. 465 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: It's just really fun to talk about to see Judas 466 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: history and how God truly loves his people and is 467 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: so merciful. Time and time again, faithful listeners. I will 468 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,479 Speaker 1: see all of you tomorrow for an episode from two Timothy. 469 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: I hope see you guys then six am or whenever 470 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: you choose to wake up and listen. Happy listening, and 471 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: God us. I just want to take a second to 472 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: thank the team at Life Audio for their partnership with 473 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: me on the Bible Explain podcast. 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