Jehoiada crowns Joash in the temple, removes Athaliah, renews covenant vows, and restores ordered worship under Moses and David. The city’s quiet returns because God keeps His promise to David and His people gladly respond.
Ahaziah’s brief reign collapses under corrupt counsel, Athaliah seizes power, and a hidden child keeps God’s promise alive. This study traces judgment and mercy to the threshold of renewal under Joash.
Jehoram’s eight-year reign in Judah shows how alliances and idolatry corrode a people while God’s covenant faithfulness holds the line. This study traces the chapter’s sober judgments and its bright “nevertheless,” pointing to the greater Son of David whose kingdom endures.
Abijah’s hilltop address anchors the field in God’s promise to David and in worship God commanded. Outnumbered and ambushed, Judah cries out, the priests sound the trumpets, and the Lord routes Jeroboam, teaching that reliance—expressed through obedient worship—decides the day.
2 Chronicles 11 shows how God restrains a king’s sword by a prophet’s word and then strengthens a reduced kingdom through right worship and prudent planning. In a fractured time, obedience to Scripture, faithful worship, and wise stewardship become the means by which God upholds his promises.
Rehoboam spurns seasoned counsel, answers harshly, and the kingdom fractures as Israel rejects David’s house—fulfilling the Lord’s word to Jeroboam. The chapter warns that power without humility breeds rebellion, even as God’s sovereign hand works through painful divides to advance His purposes.
Fire from heaven consumes the offerings and the glory fills the house while Israel sings of enduring love. By night God answers Solomon with assurance to hear and heal the humble—and a sober warning against idolatry.
Solomon kneels at the altar and leads Israel in petitions that span justice, drought, disaster, and exile. The God who cannot be contained promises to hear from heaven and forgive when His people turn to Him.
Solomon gathers Israel to bring up the ark and place it beneath the cherubim. Unified praise confesses God’s enduring love, and the glory fills the temple.
Solomon’s reign opens at the altar at Gibeon, where he asks for wisdom to lead God’s people and receives more than he sought. The chapter celebrates worship-ordered leadership while warning that abundance can test the heart.
David wants to build for God; God promises to build for David. 1 Chronicles 17 announces an eternal throne, a planted people, and a son who will build. David sits, marvels, and prays the promise back so that God’s name will be great forever.
When Athaliah tried to erase the royal line, God preserved it through quiet courage and temple-centered renewal. Joash’s coronation with the covenant in hand shows how worship reforms a city into calm.
God preserves a family through famine, exposes a murderer in a foreign court, and keeps a lamp for David despite failing kings. The chapter invites obedient foresight, compassionate truth, and hope anchored in God’s unbroken promise.
1 Kings 15 contrasts failed and faithful kings against God’s unwavering promise to David. See how Asa’s reforms and Israel’s turmoil serve the larger plan of redemption.
Solomon’s loves drift toward other gods and the Lord announces judgment that splits the kingdom. Yet for David’s sake a lamp remains, pointing to a faithful King.