Week 21 2 Chronicles 10-36
The last 27-chapters of the book are the story of the southern kingdom of Judah. Working through that section two years ago I decided to try categorizing the kings of the south. The exercise I gave myself to think about was pretty straightforward: Is this king good? Is he bad? Is he somewhere in the middle? And that’s what my three headings were: Good Kings – Bad Kings – Middlers.
Looking back on it now I realize it was a bit flimsy. Even though I was using it as a focusing exercise it was a bit like trying to build a buffet with a chain-saw and sledge-hammer.
So anyway I decided to survey each king a little more carefully and individualistically this year. My plan is to rank them – like before. But this time I’ll order them numerically (so I’ll end up with a King #1 and a King #15).
That’s my plan for the next few days.
Note: the fifteen kings I’m looking at are Rehoboam Abijah Asa Jehoshaphat Jehoram Ahaziah Joash Amaziah Azariah/Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manasseh Amon & Josiah. I’m excluding queen Athaliah (the powerful mother of Ahaziah who took the throne illegally & temporarily). And I’m not including the last four puppet kings: Jehoahaz Jehoiakim Jehoiachin & Zedekiah.
Added FYI: my Good-Middler-Bad posts were on May 14 16 & 22/2021.