2 Kings 25 recounts Jerusalem’s fall, the temple’s destruction, deportations, and a final hint of mercy in Jehoiachin’s release. The chapter confronts sin’s cost and preserves hope in God’s unbroken promises.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
2 Kings 25 recounts Jerusalem’s fall, the temple’s destruction, deportations, and a final hint of mercy in Jehoiachin’s release. The chapter confronts sin’s cost and preserves hope in God’s unbroken promises.
Habakkuk records a prophet wrestling with God and learning to rejoice. God answers with a vision: the proud fall, the righteous live by faith, and the earth will be filled with His glory.
Zechariah 2 replaces stone security with divine nearness. A city without walls, a wall of fire around, and the Lord’s glory within welcome returning exiles and gathering nations as God reaffirms His choice of Jerusalem and calls all the earth to be still before Him.
Habakkuk 2 teaches watchful faith between complaint and answer. God commands a plain-written vision, promises an appointed time, and contrasts the arrogant with the righteous who live by faith while the earth moves toward the knowledge of His glory.
Habakkuk 1 teaches believers to pray honestly while trusting God’s rule over nations. The prophet laments Judah’s injustice, wrestles with Babylon’s rise, and clings to God’s holiness and everlasting rule.
Belshazzar turns a feast into a courtroom by toasting idols with holy cups. Daniel reads the wall, and that very night the God who numbers days changes a kingdom.
Daniel 1 opens exile with “God gave,” as four youths keep holy identity in Babylon. Their humble resolve and God-given wisdom become a witness before kings.
Pharaoh roars like a monster and meets God’s net. Ezekiel 32 darkens the lights, quiets the waters, and marches Egypt to the pit so nations learn the Lord’s name.
Ezekiel 31 tells Pharaoh to “consider Assyria,” a cedar that rose by God’s waters and fell for its pride. The parable trains rulers and households to keep low, give shade, and trust the Gardener who governs height and rain.
Ezekiel 30 announces a near “day of the Lord” over Egypt. Alliances collapse, idols fail, and God strengthens Babylon while breaking Pharaoh so nations learn His name.
Pharaoh claims the Nile and meets the Lord who owns it. Ezekiel 29 recounts forty years of desolation, a humbled Egypt, Babylon’s wages, and a horn raised for Israel.
Tyre’s gloat over Jerusalem meets God’s waves of judgment. Ezekiel 26 turns a proud harbor into a bare rock to teach nations who truly rules the sea.
Ezekiel 23 uses a shocking sister-parable to expose covenant infidelity and its consequences. It also points toward hope: jealous love that ends lewdness and restores true worship.
Ezekiel 21 declares that the Lord Himself has unsheathed the sword against Jerusalem, exposing false hopes in sanctuary and scepter. Yet within judgment rises a promise: the crown will rest on the one to whom it truly belongs.
Lamentations 1 teaches the grammar of grief under God: name the pain, confess sin, and cry to the Lord who sees. The chapter’s “no comforter” refrain turns hearts from false help to the only true comfort.