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February 19 - 2 Kings 11 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is Wednesday.
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  It is the 19th of February. And good on you friend.
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  You've tapped on play. You've said, come on Sean, let
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  us read some of God's word together.
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  And that is what we are going to do and we are going to continue
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  reading in the new Living translation.
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  I wonder how you're going with this friends?
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  I well, I'm loving it. I'm just aware that a lot of
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  people do tend to have their clear favourites when it comes
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  to their own translations. We encountered a patient in our
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  hospital recently who would not read anything other than the
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  King James because to them that was the quintessential word of
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  God. And reflecting on that, I think
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  I might be the same. I'm becoming increasingly
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  biassed toward this translation where you have these translators
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  who've worked so hard to capture the intention of the original
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  author and communicate that in a way that lands to our modern
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  ears. And yes, this is probably not
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  the best translation if you were going to be doing a biblical
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  study, a scholarly pulling apart one verse word at a time.
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  But as we are just reading through, wow, it is certainly
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  doing the trick for me and I hope for you 2 friends.
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  So as we go back, let us continue to hear the story of
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  the kings of Israel and Judah as recorded in Second Kings Chapter
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  11. When Atalia, the mother of King
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  Ahaziah of Judah, learnt that her son was dead, she began to
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  destroy the rest of the royal family.
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  But Aaziah's sister Jehoshaba, the daughter of King Jehoram,
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  took Aaziah's infant son Joash and stole him away from among
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  the rest of the King's children who were about to be killed.
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  So she put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom, and they hid him
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  from Atalia so the child was not murdered.
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  Joash remained hidden in the Temple of the Lord for six years
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  while Atalia ruled over the land.
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  In the seventh year of Atalia's reign, Jehoiada the priest
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  summoned the commanders, the Carite mercenaries, and the
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  palace guards to come to the Temple of the Lord.
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  He made a solemn pact with them and made them swear an oath of
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  loyalty there in the Lord's temple.
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  Then he showed them the King's son.
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  Jehoiada told them. This is what you must do.
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  A third of you who are on duty on the Sabbath are to guard the
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  royal palace itself. Another third of you are to
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  stand guard at the Sur Gate, and the final third must stand guard
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  behind the palace guard. These three groups will all
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  guard the palace. The other two units who were off
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  duty on the Sabbath must stand guard for the king at the Lord's
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  temple. Form a bodyguard around the king
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  and keep your weapons at hand. Kill anyone who tries to
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  breakthrough. Stay with the king wherever he
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  goes. So the commanders did everything
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  as Jehoiada the priest ordered. The commanders took charge of
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  the men reporting for duty that Sabbath, as well as those who
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  were going off duty. They brought them all to
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  Jehoiada the priest, and he supplied them with the Spears
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  and small Shields that had once belonged to King David and were
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  stored in the Temple of the Lord.
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  The palace guards stationed themselves around the king with
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  their weapons ready. They formed a line from the
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  South side of the temple around to the north side, and all
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  around the altar. Then Jehoiada brought out Joash,
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  the King's son, placed a crown on his head, and presented him
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  with the copy of God's Laws. They anointed him and proclaimed
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  him king, and everyone clapped their hands and shouted.
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  Long live the king. When Atalia heard the noise made
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  by the palace guards and the people, she hurried to the
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  Lord's temple to see what was happening.
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  When she arrived, she saw the newly crowned king standing in
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  his place of authority by the pillar, as was the custom at
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  times of coronation. The commanders and trumpeters
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  were surrounding him, and people from all over the land were
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  rejoicing and blowing trumpets. When Natalia saw all this, she
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  tore her clothes in despair and shouted treason.
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  Treason. Then Jehoiada the priest,
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  ordered the commanders who were in charge of the troops take her
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  to the soldiers in front of the temple and killed anyone who
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  tries to rescue her. For the priest had said she must
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  not be killed in the temple of the Lord.
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  So they seized her and LED her out to the gate where horses
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  enter the palace grounds, and she was killed there.
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  Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king
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  and the people. That would be the Lord's people.
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  He also made a covenant between the king and the people, and all
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  the people of the land went over to the Temple of Bal and tore it
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  down. They demolished the altars and
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  smashed the idols to pieces, and they killed Matan, the priest of
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  Bal, in front of the altars. Jehoiada, the priest, stationed
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  guards at the Temple of the Lord.
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  Then the commanders, the Karite mercenaries, the palace guards,
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  and all the people of the land escorted the king from the
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  Temple of the Lord. They went through the gates of
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  the gods and into the palace. And the king took his seat on
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  the royal throne. So all the people of the land
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  rejoiced, and the city was peaceful because Italia had been
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  killed at the King's palace. Joash was seven years old when
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  he became king. Ah, Jesus, we see in this
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  chapter that you are a God of surprises, that just when this
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  nation thought that everything was falling to pieces under the
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  cruel reign of this queen, that you had a solution hidden away
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  in the temple in the form of this little boy growing up to
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  replace her as king. My Lord, I wonder what part of
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  our lives feel like an evil queen is ruling over it and
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  there is no hope. Lord, help us lean in and trust
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  in you. Trust in Your provision for us,
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  even or particularly when we find ourselves in a dark valley,
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  a confusing place where we just can't understand why we are
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  there. Lord, give us hope that there is
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  indeed a young king hidden in our temple, and that You will
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  bring about this glorious, glorious restoration of the way
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  things should be. And we know that Your
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  restoration will come and we know that You have already
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  earned that. So Lord, I just pray right now
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  that you continue to nurture our faith, our faith in you and our
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  faith in your victory over whatever challenging
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  circumstance we face. You are indeed greater than he
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  who is in this world. And any sinful plot or any time
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  of despair will be short lived. And you, you alone, Lord, will
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  be the victor. And amazingly, you take us by
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  the hand, and you draw us along with you into your victory,
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  which is for your glory and for our good.
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  So we praise you, our wonderful, mighty King, and it's in your
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  name that we pray Jesus, Amen.