The Meaning Of Life

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Sound familiar? It should, part of it were studied yesterday. While a chronological Bible can help put things in the order of events, it is impossible to put everything truly in order unless you take various passages of each book and put them in order. We can see that Chronicles documented the reign of Rehoboam yesterday, and now he is back today in the book of kings. A completely chronological perspective would have been to read a passage of Kings yesterday, followed by a passage of Chronicles. But that can get too complicated, so the Chronological Bible at least organizes them by chapters.

And as you read, Verse 19 talks about the death of Jeroboam and mentions the rest of his live is documents in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings.

Oh, and by the way, Jeroboams son Abijah that was ill, died.

I’ve read that Chronicles was the last book in the Jewish Bible, and that it originally was one book, but King James’ panel divided it into two books because of it’s length, but since all reference is to the Chronicles of the Kings, I wonder if that was the original name of the book?

Now we get to 2 Chronicles 13, and we find more that you have to pay close attention to, or at least I do. Verse 1 says that in the 18th year of King Jeroboam’s reign, Abijah took over as King of Judah. At first glance, you think that Jeroboam died and Abijah took his place. But, Jeroboam was the King of Israel, and his son Abijah died.

This passage refers to the death of Rehoboam, whose son Abijah, took over as the King of Judah. But to me it is confusing because they refer to this in reference to Jeroboam. It’s like that I’m just not very smart, but in the event it is confusing to you as well, perhaps this helps. If it is perfectly clear to you, then forget everything I’m saying.

And now, Israel was a full war within itself, between Israel and Judah. When Abijah took over as King of Judah, he denounced Israel and Jeroboam for their idolatry. So Israel attacked Judah, but because Israel had distanced themselves from God, Judah won that battle.

The Asa, the son of Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, attained the throne of Judah.

And now we will have brief stories about the various kings in Judah and in Israel, a listing of who succeeded who, and who was good and who wasn’t.

The 12 Tribes of Israel were once brothers, family, loving each other, supporting each other, and unified together to take over the promised land of Caanan. And now, they’ve slowly drifted away from God. The days of strong leaders like Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David, and Solomon are over, and because they’ve distanced themselves from God, Satan has crept in, and brother is fighting brother, cousin is fighting cousin.

Isn’t it better that we all serve the Lord together?