Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 24--Verse 2And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.God always keeps His Word and sometimes He even brings calamity to people. This is a concept that is hard t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 23--Verse 25Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might…nor did any like him arise after him.To say King Josiah changed some things up during his rule is an understatement. He dismantled traditions, broke customs, and forsook dignity as he rid the nation of false gods. One thing we know ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 22--Verses 10-11 (NIV)Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king. When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes.King Josiah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. As he was working out payment for some workers, the Books of the Law were foun...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 21--Verse 9They did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray…God speaks, but sometimes He is ignored. He warns, yet people refuse to listen. And when His voice is continually resisted, silence is the result…not because God stops speaking, but because we stop hearing.And when that happens, we are left in a vulnerable state. Other voices begin to lead us, often in the w...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 20--Verse 17Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.King Hezekiah was dying and prayed for healing. God heard his prayer, promised to add fifteen years to his life, and deliver Jerusalem from attack by Assyria. These promises...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 19—Verse 30And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.Most people go through times in life when they feel like they have been uprooted and misplaced, and are unfruitful. This happens to us as individuals, as families, sometimes as whole organizations or even nations. But those times are usually temporary. God c...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 18--Verses 3-4And [Hezekiah] did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).Idolatry has no p...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 17--Verse 18None was left but the tribe of Judah only. In chapter 17, the nation of Israel came to a complete and total collapse. Nothing was left but the tribe of Judah only. And there will be a day when this world will look a lot like Israel. Completely devastated. God will have issued his warnings (as he did in verse 13), but sinful humanity is bent on its own way ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 16--Verse 7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”This is a hard moment in Judah’s history. King Ahaz faced fear and pressure, and instead of trusting God, he looked for security in human ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 15--Verse 14Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and put him to death and reigned in his place.Menahem, King of Israel for 10 years, was known only for his cruelty and idolatry. He is remembered for his violent actions and sacking cities. He paid the King of Assyria to let him rul...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 14--Verse 4But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.In our passage, we see kings who “did what was evil” and kings who “did what was right.” But those doing right always had one downfall—letting the worship of false gods continue. The kings could have torn down the high places of false worship, but they di...  Read More

Daily Devotional from 2 Kings 13–Verses 18-19And he said, “Take the arrows,” and he took them. And hesaid to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground with them.” Andhe struck three times and stopped. Then the man of Godwas angry with him and said, “You should have struck fiveor six times; then you would have struck down Syria untilyou had made an end of it, but now you will strike downSyria only thr...  Read More