2 Chronicles - Chapters 9-12

well we're in second chronicles chapters 9 through 12 and this is just going to continue the Davidic dynasty we'll have a chapter on solve the final chapter and Solomon and then we'll get into Raya boom and all of that now first and second chronicles take the form of a history David and Judah are the focal points because the emphases on the priestly and Levitical orders first a second sign for second Kings are they historic the the political record president Chronicles is the religious or priestly view of it all Ezra Nehemiah Chronicles probably were written by the same a collection of scholars or scribes operating under ezra probably and because chronicles takes us up to the babylonian captivity Ezra Nehemiah what happened subsequently so they're all together and they obviously had access to a very substantial library because there's all kinds of letters accessed between all the major political leaders of that time and from the point of view of the timeline that we had in learned about in 24 hours obviously the monarchy starts with Saul and goes until the Exile to various kinds and First Samuel takes us up to the beginning of David second salmon is really the story of David it's parallel the first Chronicles in effect from Solomon on we have first and second Kings and then some renderings obviously first second four second Kings are first second third fourth Kings and some Bibles but it's the same same material and first second Kings split Elijah Elijah and Elijah actually but anyway first Chronicles is really parallel the second Samuel and second Chronicles will essentially from Solomon on right up to the Babylonian exile and we're first send Kings dealt with both southern and northern kingdoms and how they were fought in all those details and I read the politically or the historical record chronicles really just focuses it on the the southern kingdom the kingdom of Judah and so we had first chronicles obviously nine chapters of genealogies and then the reign of David in second chronicles we had nine chapters that deal with Solomon were taking the ninth of those ninth chapters tonight and then we're going to go right into their whole can the rest of it is the continuing Davidic dynasty the okay so we're in the reign of Solomon original name of Jedediah Solomon was his royal name and his pen name private name was Bathsheba was Lemmy well many scholars believe it seems to then it's an inference but it may be justified and he's also calls himself the calleth of the preacher for Ecclesiastes and so on so he was he was also a collector of dark sayings as proverbs 30 deals with he was the second son the surviving a first surviving son of Bathsheba and the first after their legal marriage a second Samuel 12 probably born about a thousand 2035 BC he succeeded his father on the throne probably as a late teenager 16 17 years old and he was his father Nathan and Bathsheba and Nathan recognized that an idea was getting ambitious and starting to declare himself as king so they encouraged David to cut that off by establishing Solomon as his successor before he dies not wait for his death what she did and Niger was the fourth son of David and his elder brothers became they died so he became the heir apparent presumably but Solomon his younger brother was preferred above him as far as David's concerned so I denied you while his father was dying tried to cause himself to be proclaimed king but Nathan Bathsheba headed that off by getting David to give orders that Solomon would be at once proclaimed and admitted of the throne so that's why some was a little young but that's the way David wanted it and so he headed off at an idea and an idea fled but when apprehended he received a pardon for his conduct as long as he showed himself a worthy man according to 1st Kings 1:5 well he tried to he didn't learn he tried a second attempt to gain the throne was seized and put to death his accomplices were also however we were forgiven psalmist still might have spared as an idea but there's an intrigue going on with Abishag david's concubine who probably was the person that's featured in the opera known as Song of Songs but anyway Solomon was merciful to the rest of his brothers then before his death David gave him a whole list of things to do and give his instructions that's all listed in first Kings and and that Solomon arranges his fairs marries the daughter of Pharaoh of Egypt and the last half of his reign gets all messed up because he indulges in all these wives 700 of them plus 300 concubines thousand women who but the problem is that they all brought with them their pagan practices and he tolerates that and that eventually that toleration brings his downfall so took 7 years to build the temple 13 years to build his royal palace which was huge and in front of the house of the portrait pillars and so forth others that the house of the forest of Lebanon was was a huge hallway for like an armory if you will and then from that was a Hall of judgment his throne room and it was also a portion of it was set aside for the daughter of Pharaoh so is really an awesome awesome but tom is quite a builder now typologically Solomon's often overlooked in typological all through everything in detail about him is littered in sixes and we want to be sensitive to that we'll talk a little bit about that in this session the Seal of Solomon is the ancient rendering of what is now known as the Magan Davi the shield of David but that's a recent Appalachian emergence in about the 14th century that recently much earlier it is known as a seal of Solomon it was used by a Celtic practitioners who knows how it's very fragmentary it's interesting how Solomon all through the New Testament is used in the diminutive sense David is always extolled as great Soloman oh it was great but not quite great enough the lilies in the valley you know even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these he's always used as a standard that something else is succeeding anyway let's move in chapter 9 the visit of the Queen of Sheba now this scale is quite a gal once you understand she lives 1,200 miles away there's no railroads no airplanes airplanes when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem with a very great company of and the camels that bear spices and gold and abundance and precious stones when she was come to Solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart 1,200 miles she really must have had a yearning to find out what was behind all this fame here's a secluded Arabian Queen that would break through the immemorial customs of her land and put forth the energy to brave the perils of a 1200 mile journey on the unbeaten she carried it out safely she must have wanted to come very badly I hesitate to go 1200 miles in an airplane I have to want to very badly to do that so anyway she communed with him of all that was in her heart and Solomon told her all her questions and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told or not these two were apparently the term we might use as intimate there is a legend we're going to talk about that they gave birth to a she gave birth to a son or Solomon that has that is at least claimed to be the lineage all the way to Haile Selassie Selassie we'll talk about that here in a minute when the queen of sheba had seen the wisdom of solomon and the house that he had built and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel his cupbearers also and their apparel and his ascent by which he went up into the house the Lord there was no more spirit in her she was filled with amazement now she was a queen from southern part of Arabia she was no country hick she she knew the game and she saw his wealth and the opulence there she was blown away and and she said to the king it was a true report which I heard mine own land of Dynex and of thy wisdom howbeit I believed not their words until I came and mine eyes had seen it and behold the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me but I acceded to the famous that I heard that's probably where we get that expression the half of it wasn't even told me she was told so much she didn't believe it and that wasn't the half of it that's really what the net of it is that's pretty straightforward communication here happy are thine men happy are these thy servants would stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom this staff apparently communicated joy not oppression not slavery happy blessed be the Lord thy God which the light of envy to set the on his throne to be king for the LORD thy God because thy God loved Israel to establish them forever therefore made he the king over him to do a judgment and justice she's saying God must really love your people to give them a king like you that's the flavour what I think she's saying there and she gave the King a hundred and twenty talents of gold talents about 70 80 pounds maybe ninety whoo-whee she brought carpenter hmm sand of spices great abundance and precious stones neither was there any such spice as the queen of sheba gave the king of solomon and the servant salts of Hiram and the servants of Solomon which brought gold from all fear brought autumn trees and precious stones and the king made of autumn trees terraces to the house of the Lord under the king's palace and harps and psalteries for singers and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah and King Solomon gave to the Queen of Sheba all her desire whatsoever she asked beside that which she had brought him to the King so she turned and went away to her own land she and her servants we have no idea how long she was there wasn't just it wasn't a weekend visit and yet we have no real idea and that gives rise to our macaque to this Ethiopian legends we're going to talk about this isn't just a casual legend it is the official belief it's in the constitution of Ethiopia the Ethiopians claim to the queen of sheba as detailed in the famous epic Kebra Nagast the glory of kings and it's based on a visit described in the Bible but adds that the Queen bore a son metalic men elect the first if you will to King Solomon that's worth added to this epic and this epic is a 13th century they traced that far back ad we're talking so when men like was grown presumably he visited his father Solomon who anointed him to rule Africa and sent the sons of his own counselors to assist men like his king that's the concept that's the story and the young men were reluctant to leave the famous Temple in Jerusalem especially as it contained the Ark of the Covenant so the legend is is that they secretly removed the Ark of the Covenant left a replica and they took it with them to Ethiopia and that's the legend the Ethiopian legend yet as an official view inculcated in the history of Ethiopia it is quickly disprovable from the Bible so you have most people who have encountered this legend Graham Hancock wrote a book the sign of the seal and Grant Jeffries has written some stuff about it bob cornuke and i bob has really gotten to this bob and i have visited ethiopia on several occasions and so we when you do that you encounter this view of the Ethiopians for centuries the Ethiopian tradition isn't maintained and it is still preserved and guarded in the compound that the Ark is in guard is still there guarded in the compound now the Ethiopian legend was compiled in record in writing during the 13th century but its origin is difficult to determine and from the restoration of the Solomon dynasty around from the restoration to around twelve seventy until the death of the Last Emperor Haile Selassie the emperors of Ethiopia have claimed descent from Solomon the Queen of Sheba now on the one hand that's what the Ethiopians cling to because those are any Kings promoted this tale because they it benefited them to be able to claim direct descent from Solomon you follow me Haile Selassie did at even late as 1975 because biblical scholars can tell that that story can't be true and I'll show you why they dismiss the Ethiopian legend altogether that's just their culture of tradition what everyone virtually everyone has overlooked is just because the legend isn't true doesn't mean they don't have the ark it may have gotten down there by a different path and that different path is in second Chronicles it's in the text it's tucked in there and subtly if did some have to do some inferential reasoning but it's quite surprising so this isn't strong enough to be a doctrinal point to try to teach from but I will tell you as candidly we suspect we don't know we suspect they may really have the ark they're just victims of a tale that was promoted for political reasons in their early history for local advantages and that doesn't mean that the Ark ain't there because those are cute there's archaeological proof that it is and we'll get through that haile selassie it was born in 1892 he died in 1975 he was the grand nephew of Emperor Menelik ii he was the last emperor of ethiopia he reigned from 1930 through about 1974 when he died and the Solomonic claim was made part of the constitution in 1955 obviously by Haile Selassie who was writing things of the time but recognized it was there an interest to promote this tale this widely regarded non biblical because the ark didn't disappear in Solomon's day or even after there's we're gonna go through a whole series of Kings you're gonna get all the way down to Josiah and we get to desire you're about you're in second chronicles chapter 35 the next to the last chapter in chronicles in the days of Josiah instructs the Levites to put the ark in the in the Holy of Holies where is it why is it that the whole thing will get into but the point is the Ark is around there you know a couple of centuries after the story about men like having taken it from follow me so we'll deal with that and furthermore there's another aspect of this we'll talk about when we get there Jeremiah 3:16 predicts that the Ark will no longer remember be remembered or come to mind the ark coordinates a Jeremy chapter 3 verse 16 implies that the Ark is the past don't don't look for it it'll no longer be remembered no come to mind and I'm among those teachers who used to use that verse again and again to dispel the whole Ethiopian myth people get hear about it get excited about it we'd say well wait look at Jeremiah 3:16 it says don't don't bother with that we didn't read the verses that followed it which changed the subject a little bit but give us some insight so we'll deal with that when we get to it later we're gonna we're going to talk about some very surprising conjectures about the Ark of the Covenant in a later session in the meantime let's keep moving here chapter 9 now the weight of the goal that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold that incidentally threescore is 16 so you got six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold that's his annual salary it's mentioned twice in the scripture when you get 666 anybody as a Jewish rabbi will point out to you anytime there's an unnecessary detail in the story that's like a Ritz called RMS which is like saying dig here it's a hint of something deeper and anybody to study the Bible that but it knows nothing else about the Bible all heard about 666 is somehow and we'll talk about that here in a minute but simply that 666 from a biblical text point of view seems to be linked to Solomon himself somehow that's often overlooked by some of these prophecy buffs beside that which Chapman and merchants bought all the kings of Arabia and governors the country brought gold and silver to Solomon which he made a lot more than this this was just a salary that has just singled out for some spiritual purpose the Seal of Solomon has been found to be a very ancient symbol used by a cultic this thing here is a is a set of signs that's supposed to help keep women from getting miscarriages but the point is it's in a context of Jewish mysticism ancient ancient Jewish mysticism in those days many many many centuries ago it was known as a seal of Solomon it really about the 14th century where it's called the shield of David and is adopted as a symbol of Judaism and of course his right widely recognized that way today and that's why the Israeli flag has the shield of David on it that's not the official symbol of the State of Israel note the state of Israel's official symbol is the men or to see it on the official government documents it's not the shield of David or this whatever so just be sensitive that it's in Revelation 13 speaks of the antic one of the two guys there's remember the Antichrist is really a duet of two guys as the second guy that exercises all the power of the first beast before him and caused the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed that deadly wound is apparently a somehow the first beast has a head wound he's thought of as dead but he apparently comes back to life his deadly head wound was healed and he doeth great wonders that is the second guy here so he maketh Fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men that's something just a legend used to do and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had the power to do in the sight of the Beast meaning the first beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the Beast which had the wound by the sword and did live in other words he keeps whenever he wants to emphasize the first beast that's always the identity he had this wound by a sword and yet he lived an apparent resurrection from the dead it would see and he had power to give life unto the image of the Beast he had power to give life to the image of the Beast most of us think of maybe some kind of elaborate puppet or something but when you see a movie like King Kong and so forth and you realize what the technology has done made possible I should say to create lifelike preachers images of them it really is breathtaking here we have the party of life under the image of the Beast that the image of the Beast should both speak and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the Beast should be killed he causes all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads strange place to receive an insignia of some kind in their right hand or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell save he had the mark or the name of the beast the number of his name Wow the word there is for the you know the seal of the mark is a correct Corrado a seal a mark in the Torah is prohibited a tattoo is prohibited Leviticus 19 and 21 Deuteronomy 14 Isaiah 49 Ezekiel 9 and Exodus 13 that are places where that is emphasized and then the last verse of chapter 13 has spawned more books by more people Garrett's wisdom let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred threescore and six and this is the 666 people know nothing else about the Bible all know about the 666 is being somehow relate to the Antichrist 666 the word in the Greek Christos take the first and last letter and put this funny little Greek letter looks like a snake in between and you get the anti-crease DOS the pseudo Christ and the the first letter is worth sitting on the Greek symmetrical scale at 600 the next one 16 last ones like that's that's the way the 666 shows up in the text by the spelling of the Antichrist interestingly enough so we have those three numbers anyway but whose number are we talking about not yours his it's amazing to me how many people look to insertable chips you know I can or whether it's a or RFID radio frequency identification chips it's a whole new industry coming or barcodes they all sort of so she ate the 666 no no no no that's backwards you got it backwards the bar some barcode systems do use six as a separator and so they see the six that we get in the middle in both ends aha yet somehow the six six six well it may have some impact clearly electronic funds transfer is an enabling technology for the coming world leader no question about that but taking on a credit card number and so forth isn't his number it's your number that's not the problem here it's his number and name that are the critical it's you don't get your credit card unless you take on his insignia where do you take his insignia on well apparently on right hand or forehead there's only one physical description the Antichrist the Bible I know about that's zechariah 11 17 last verse of chapter 11 of zechariah woe to the idle Shepherd that leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his arm and upon his right eye his arm shall be clean dried up and his right eye shall be utterly darkened so we know the speculation it's a conjecture of the part of some scholars that because he apparently has an impairment from the sword he won't you eat wasn't killed he's alive but he has apparently a bad eye and a bad arm and that's why people taking an identity with him take his insignia on their eye or on the right hand it's a way of it that if you were going to identify with John Wayne and True Grit you'd get a batch right right and or whatever you know in other words it's a way of identifying yourself with your hero and that's apparently that's what it's talking about and you don't get a PIN number or whatever for your ATM machine unless you are in with the good guys and you're a lie you've declared allegiance to this leader which if you do you forfeit any chance of ever being saved and that's why it's such a big deal in the book of Revelation so how interesting it is that Solomon's salary is that same number is there some kind of mystical link between the Antichrist and the king king solomon the king of israel all kinds of conjectures but they're disk injectors let's move on to second chronicles 9 verse 15 and King Solomon 200 targets or shields if you will of beaten gold six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into one target these are shields that weigh 70 pounds everyone in that house can you imagine carrying one of those they're decorative they were just you know it's a brag wall Hensley now 300 shields are made of beaten gold three hundred shekels of gold went into one shield so they're half wait a little more practical probably and one King and the King put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon now I've asked you where is the house of the forest of Lebanon it's not in Lebanon okay that is the label for Solomon a part of Solomon's Palace they called it the force of Lebanon because it had all these 45-foot Timbers holding up the huge a huge room so it was known as the house of the forest of Lebanon that's a formal title of this particular segment the front end segment in the sense of the Royal Palace and it was built of cedar pillars and also serve as an armory first Kings ten hundred cubits long so it's half the length of a football field fifty broad thirty high in four rows of pillars and hewn cedar beams over the pillars there were forty five side rooms forming three stories of fifteen rooms each the pillar Hall the porch lying between the house and the fort and of the force of Lebanon the throne room and the judgment hall and then the King strung house and also that of the Pharaoh's daughter so huge huge palace it took twice as almost twice as long to build a palace as did the temple more the King made a great throne of ivory overlaid it with pure gold and there were how many steps to the throne six how interesting how many fingers did a Nephilim have six six fingers six toes how interesting there are six steps to the throne with a footstool of gold and they were fastened to the throne and stays on each side of the sitting place and two lions standing by this dais and twelve lions stood there on one side and on the other on the six steps and it was got a line on each side of the six steps you got twelve lines but there's six here and six there six lines the left six lines of Rights six steps you got six six and six again Oh interesting there was not light the like made in any Kingdom I could imagine and all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were a pure gold none were of silver it was not anything accounted of in the days of Solomon that's interesting remark because as I say in the early in the days of the Egyptian much much earlier their work time that silver was kind of very valuable cause it's hard to find that changed obviously for the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram and then what is Tarsus that comes up in the scripture every once in a while every three years once came the ships of tarshish bringing gold and ivory that gold and silver and ivory Apes and peacocks if these ships come every three years what do you think the so the round trip takes three years right so how far away is it it's a year and a half away there's a lot of evidence that it was the British Isles say interestingly enough King Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God had put in his heart what do we know about Tarsus what was a distance apart from with silver iron tin lead ivory monkeys and peacocks who were brought to Israel first Kings 10 and Jeremiah 10 and ezekiel 27 it's translated from the Akkadian to be smelted that's what the name means we know from Herodotus chapter 4 of his he wrote the 5th century BC that Tarshish was beyond The Pillars of Hercules that means it's beyond the Mariner okay Hercules if you go from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean you bet your Balter there you pass through what's called The Pillars of Hercules anybody's been navigating that with Millia term anyway Herodotus says Tarsus is outside the Mediterranean okay we know that Tasha's headstrong ships capable of long voyages from Isaiah 60 verses 9 plus what we just read in chronicles the three you know a year and a half voyage at a ship means it's no fly-by-night ship it's a rugged thing there's a term called Britannia metal Tarsus was an island over once you know about a year and a half away which was among other things a key source of tin Britannia metal was an alloy of 93 percent tin 5% antimony and 2 percent copper is used for making utensils teapots jugs drinking vessels candlesticks urns and other official Mace's it was similar in color to pewter but it was easier to work with another alloy so it was it is a metal it's common in the ancient cultures global commerce from Britain was confirmed by archaeological discoveries at Stonehenge at 1500 BC that's what sometimes called the Bronze Age tin was exported to Europe in large quantities from Cornwall England during the Roman period so so this implies that Tarshish there it's not conclusively provable but it is a reasonable inference that Tarsha cesare reference to the british isles we know that Tarshish was as far away as they could think of from Israel because when Jonah was trying to flee he took a ship to Tarshish that's sort of like us taking a ship to China it's a it's it's a it's a figure of speech to get away as far as you can think of getting to get to the other side of the world so to speak and that's what our shish was a view at at least okay so anyway they brought every man his present vessels of silver vessels of gold and raiment harness spices horses mules a rate year by year and Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots and twelve thousand horsemen whom he bestowed in the chariot cities with and with the king at Jerusalem and he reigned over all the kings from the river even to the land of the Philistines to the border of Egypt and the king made silver in Jerusalem that stones and Cedars trees made he has sycamore trees that are in the hollow plains of abundance and they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt and out of all lands Oh his rule Psalms were will extend from the afraid ease River to Egypt's border first Kings for yet incalculable wealth that was largely produced by his training expertise yes he had all these incredible gifts brought to him but the same time his trade was very skilfully organized and produced wealth it is beyond imagining now his kingdom did not fulfill the Abrahamic covenant Genesis chapter justice 1518 why because any countries in that territory only paid tribute to him and were not assimilated into the nation of Israel there's a technicality some people say well was it was met the the the the Abrahamic covenant was met in Solomon's day not exactly close but not quite now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet and the prophecy of Hydra the site charla night and in the visions of itto the seer against Jeroboam the sediment about these are books obviously lost there's a long list of a lot of dozen of these sources that a reference but have been long lost and through history and Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years that's pretty cool and Salman slept with his fathers and he was buried in the City of David his father and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead which brings us to chapter 10 where mom went to Shechem for the Shechem were all Israel come to make him King it's interesting though Solomon had many many sons he had a thousand you know he had seven wives and then three hundred second-rate concubines were not prostitutes they were just second-rate wives so to speak they had a status but not that of a wife and anyway so he had a lot of sons can you imagine none or mentioned except for a bone it turns out to be a masked by Turkey and he begat by a nearby the a man itis and he apparently began to realize it was alienation on part of the northern part of the kingdom so he goes up to Shechem which was a major stronghold in the northern part that's where a great boom goes to be formally crowned up and check him and because it was important in Israel's life it came to pass when Jeroboam the Senate about who was in Egypt whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the King heard it that Jeroboam who turned out of Egypt I get Jeroboam fled from Solomon the king is an exile in in Egypt when he hears that song you know that the RAM bombs out he comes out into the light of day here so he this all gonna take place at checking and shechem is a very important town in the whole history of Israel that's where Joshua reaffirmed the Mosaic Covenant and it's been more or less it was that it was one of the major cities not a Capitol exactly but close to that in the in the north part of the country and they sent and called him so Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to riobamba saying this important meeting now my father made our yoke Grievous that were just saying taxes are oppressive now there for ease Val somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us and we will serve thee that's a cool deal Solomon is excessively wealthy anyway taxes are way too high taxes themselves are relatively new because they didn't have taxes in the days of David and David funded most things out of his pocket because as the king he received the bounty of these wars and he would distribute it that's not the same thing as taxes better Solomon there was taxation that was very heavy and if you if you you know if you relieve this yoke he put on us yeah we were to serve thee that's the deal they said unto them come again unto me after three days and the people departed so that's their proposition if he had a brain in his head he would have taken it see Jeroboam was formerly the foreman of the foreman of the labor and ephraim where Shechem was located ii missing from his the county and ii would be the city and when he heard Solomon died he returned from Egypt because he had fled for some reason some time previously and so he was by sort of by popular demand Jeroboam headed the delegation that appealed to lighten the taxation asking for three days to consider the matter a balm consulted the old advisors of his father who counseled him to listen to this listen to these rights king rambow took counsel with the old men that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived saying what counsel give ye me to return answer to this people and they spake on them saying if thou be kind to this people and please them let's speak good words they will be thy servants forever good advice right but grant boom he forsook the council in which the old men gave him and took the council with a young men that were brought up with him that stood before him they said to them what advice give ye that we may return answer to these people which have spoken to be saying ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us so he surround by these young squirts that think they know everything the young men that were brought up with him speaking I'm saying thus shalt thou ask to the people that spake unto thee saying thy father made our yoke heavy but make thou it's somewhat lighter for us thus shalt thou say unto them my little finger shall be thicker than my father's bones for whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you I will put more to your yoke my father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions the scorpions kind of whipped with little metal pieces in it that catch the flesh you know so Jeroboam and all the people came to riobamba in the third day as the king bade saying come again unto me on the third day the king answered them roughly the king rambow him forsook the counsel of the old men he answered them after the advice of the young man saying my father made your yoke heavy but I will add there to my father chastise you with whips I will chastise you with scorpions so the king hearkened not unto the people for the cause was of God that the Lord might perform his word which he spake by the hand of a Hodja the shell Knight to Jeroboam the son of Nebat the he had already promised God had promised Jeroboam that he would rule over the northern tribes so this was the precipitating event but there was a destiny here that of the thing breaking up and when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them the people answered the King saying what portion have we in David but we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse everyman to your tents of Israel and now David see to thine own house so all Israel went to their tents in other words they're basically Israel's declaring the dependence of Judah is what they're doing for as the children Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah Raya Boehm reigned over them then King Rehoboam sent to head Iram which that was over the tribute and the children of Israel stoned him with stones that he died his tax collector gets murdered in other words no surprise but king rambow made speed to get him up to his chariot to flee to Jerusalem I can imagine you wanted to get out that down pretty quick he's in hostile territory and Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day so the kingdom divides because Raya Bohm's ill-advised policies when we're home was come to Jerusalem he gathered the house of Judah and Benjamin and 104 score a thousand chosen men which were warriors to fight against Israel from now we gotta be careful now because in this context Judah is used as a phrase we've regarding the southern kingdom ray of almond is gain it is not just the tribe of Judah the tribe of Simeon has already been folded into it and its tribe of Benjamin has also allied with them someone here when they say Judah they mean the southern group which is Judah Benjamin and Simeon for sure there's gonna be more coming and when they say fight against Israel when they use that term in this context it's the northern group there's a northern group of tribes ok they're not ten though that's going to lead to another thing I want to get into the fight against Israel that he might bring the kingdom again to rebel these men are gonna try to fight Israel and try to break reunite the nation they're not gonna make it of course but the word of the Lord came to schemey I the man of God is the Prophet saying speaking Arab own the son of Solomon king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin saying notice that if you got Judah you got an area called Judah and Benjamin but God is saying to say to the son of the king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah in other words there are members of all tribes down there that's the point I'm gonna get to thus saith the Lord ye shall not go up nor fight against your brother in which every man to his house for this thing is done of me God speaking in effect and they obeyed the words the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam rebel dwelt in Jerusalem and built cities for defensive Jew in Judah he built even Bethlehem and Tom and Toccoa desert and Shoko and a deulim and goth and Mara as if in a dream and lock ish luggage and azekah and Zara and agile on and Hebron edge alone is a valley therein before on that's a anyway which are in Judah and in Benjamin fence cities Jerusalem is technically in Benjamin not Judah but this right on the border so Judah and Benjamin for this purpose are together obviously he fortified the strongholds put captain's in them in the store of vittles in of oil and wine and in every several city he put shields and Spears and made them exceeding strong having Judah and Benjamin on his side and the priests now get this verse 13 s an important verse I want you to be sensitive to and the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts now get the picture if you're a Levite you did not inherit land in the first place you had 48 cities and your inheritance was God you were all involved in the administration of the temple and the Levitical practices now you're in a region now that's under leadership that's hostile to the leadership you're loyal to which is the temple so what do you guys do Levites you up and move those that are faithful move south to join Rambo with all his faults he still has the temple that will priests and all that so the priests and the Levites priests are Levites but not all Levites a priest you know the difference okay the priests of the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him to whom rebel out of all their coasts for the Levites left their suburbs and their possession and came to Judah and Jerusalem for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priests office of the Lord and he that is Jeroboam and ain him priests for the high places and for the devils and for the calves which they had made Jeroboam sets up golden calves in dan and beth-el and sets up his own priesthood to worship calves if you are a Levite that's an anathema that's what you are delivered from so when you see all that going on you get out of town you go downwards politically correct to worship properly right you with me it's important understanding that I'm gonna suggest it doesn't say this but I'm gonna suggest that if you're down south and you're not faithful to the temple you've had enough of all that stuff you want to worship idols where would you move up north where it's politically correct so there's a commingling of tribes don't confuse a label that's geographic with a label that's ethnic you with me partners in because there's more confusion about not making that decision so let's go on and after them notice this after them that's the Levites out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers so they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made roboam the son of Solomon strong three years for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon what it doesn't say but I would assume that the the the malcontents whoever they might be would go up north and they hang with the Jeroboam in his game with me Jeroboam by the way under Jeroboam the first they become incredibly prosperous up north that's the whole mission of Hosea is to go up there and explain to them and they think they think they've got it great but not in God's eyes that's later but you get the picture we have this myth that's all through English literature called the Ten Lost Tribes and the idea is down south he had Benjamin and Judah up north he had all the rest of these guys they affiliate themselves as the northern kingdom the subdued and Benjamin the southern kingdom by 722 takes assyria to use Assyria to wipe out the northern kingdom in 722 the Assyrians conquered the northern and deport them they become slay they never appear again in history they not only to part them individually they scatter them they had a policy of mixing commingling captives from elsewhere they planted in their place they planted they deliberately broke down the National the identity of the northern kingdom and the theory is that the the tribes that were up there are lost because they then filter all through Europe and they become all kind there's all kinds of Legends that derive from the so called lost ten tribes that's all those all those are speculations that come out of a mr. reading of the scripture let's take a look at the tally here the southern kingdom consists of Judah Simeon because it got a simulated into Jude earlier so you got Judah Simeon and Benjamin that's the southern kingdom no problem what makes up the northern kingdom Ephraim that's the dominant one and that your word Ephraim often becomes the selector here the generic for the whole group when they speak of Ephraim the Alpha they mean the whole bunch often Manasseh Asher Naphtali Zebulon GAD and Reuben and Dan whoops there's one more missing the Levites tip the Levites have joined the southern kingdom right we know that for sure well if there are four tribes in the south how many are there in the North eight so there aren't 10 Lost Tribes there might be 8 ok so if something but 10 Lost Tribes asking the name what 10 you talking about you'll just cover right away this it doesn't hold any substance to reality if there some lost for some reason these these labels are Geographic not tribal because by then there's commingling going on for all kinds of reasons you regather so far ok this is the basis there's a concept of british israel ism you'll run into and all other kinds of legends that derive from this idea it's amazing how militant some people are at clinging to these views they're really quite incidental to our purposes at the same time you'll find this whole 10 Lost Tribe ideas from is a misconception from a miss reading of second Kings 17 and second chronicles 6 and following that's confusing the tribal terms rather than the geography when the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom which incidentally included remnants of all twelve tribes they scattered their captives throughout the empire and repopulated the area local area with captives from elsewhere they dueled that was their policy these descendants then in this area were known as Samaritans Samaria was the capital of the Northern Kingdom gets conquered by Assyria the people that they actually leave there and don't transport are in effect considered half juice because they're commingled with other captives of the Assyrians they did that deliberately to break down the ethnic barriers that's why the Samaritans were viewed at run by Jews as half Jews because they had roots but they were they were contaminated in the Jewish mind and you see that mentioned in Pentecost acts chapter 2 speaks of the 12 tribes the epistles of James and 1st Peter are addressed to the twelve tribes aren't ten lost see the faithful voted with their feet before the Assyrian captivity long before that substantial numbers of the northern tribes identified themselves with the house of David they moves down south when Jeroboam rebelled that caused many to repudiate the northern kingdom unite with the southern kingdom a common alliance that's what we just read about with the Levites but it goes all the way through you can find it in second currently in second chronicles 19 30 24 34 and on and on and on in 930 BC Jeroboam ruled the Northern Kingdom is from his capital in Samaria Jeroboam turned the Northern Kingdom to idolatry the Levites obviously migrated south horrified that Jeroboam set up a rival religion calf worship both Macbeth Ellen and then many more northern northern South knowing that the only place except Allah God was the temple on the Mount Moriah that button that did it it's my inference that those who favor idolatry of migrate north it doesn't say so but that's a natural inference later on next to the next king we're gonna see after Obama's in the south when he reigned as king in the South another great company also came from the North second chronicles 15 we'll deal with that and years after the deportation by Assyria king hezekiah of judah issued a call to all israel to come to worship at jerusalem and celebrate the passover in other words even long after the the deputation of the northern kingdom Hezekiah could call all Israel not just you know all Israel to come worship in second chronicles 30 we'll see then 80 years later King Josiah Judah will issue a call and offering a temple to come back from Manasseh and Ephraim and all the remnant of Israel so you'll find if you're watching this whole Ten Lost thing is a fiction it doesn't jibe with the text at all see eventually all twelve tribes are representing the south and all twelve tribes are also in the north and in first second chronicles 11 speak on a rare bone the son of Solomon the king of Judah and to all Israel and Judah and Benjamin we've read that chapter 11 and so the main point I want to get you sensitized to is distinguish between the tribal designations and the territories allocated there these are geographic terms not ethnic terms it's the point I'm trying get across and incidentally Ephraim it's sometimes used as a generic for the northern kingdom the tribe of Judah is actually a phrase used generically for the whole southern kingdom it doesn't mean just the tribe of Judah it means that the zone that and his allies so so in 724 or Shama Nizar v bc samaria for three years and king of israel attempted to revolt against paying the Syrians that tribute money he that was a big mistake he had a treaty with the Pharaoh of Egypt that didn't help any he gets white that Samaria the the capital of the jeroboams world fell in 722 BC they pull down towers took captives place to the Syrian ruler over the city and looted it and so forth and they implemented the policy of mixing conquered people keep from them keep him from organizing a revolt so the Israeli captors were mixed with Persians and others and strangers from far-off lands were settled in Samaria and that led to the mixed populations interesting enough not all of the northern kingdom was deported archaeologists and covered annals of the Syrian Tsar Sargon which tells that he carried away only twenty-seven thousand hundred ninety people it's a relatively small number and about fifty chariots according to biblical archaeologist 1943 essence populations were maybe up to half a million so less than one twentieth were actually departed most number just commingled with other becoming go to other tribes later on the Babylonians are going to conquer the northern US area and when they do the Babylonian captives and the captives that they inherit with Syria will be commingled again so again we got all twelve tribes involved both both things here in Isaiah's he takes admitting to Judah referred to them as the house of Jacob which are called by the name of Israel he's using the term Israel then in this in its collective total sense the word Israel and can refer in some context just in the northern kingdom which is what they call themselves it can also mean the whole nation and as a unified nation that's the idea and when the Babylonians later take the oversee of that descendants of the ten tribes or so called ten grand I probably again combing over the other captives the New Testament says the same thing Jesus says I've offered you I've come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and that's a collective term for the nation other tribes in Judah are mentioned specifically as being represented in the land and all through the New Testament twelve tribes are talked about next 26 and James 1:1 and so forth the reason the some reason hitting this so hard is this is also the root of anti-semitism people who tend to try to make start they may start making trying to make distinctions between the dirham the term Jew and Israelite well a Jew means Judah and Israelite means again they're trying to build something on the separation no and that's not biblical Ezra calls the returning remnant from captivity he calls them Jews eight times he calls them Israel 40 times he calls him all Israel in another verse Nehemiah calls them Jews 11 times calls him Israel 22 times all Israel being back in the land and the mi 1247 other words these terms are not discriminatory the way some people try to make them you want to be on your guard for that that implied the when you hear someone start to do that they have an agenda be careful Malakai also indicates that the entire room that was called v nation Malachi 1:1 and elsewhere Anna and Luke toe she knew she was a tentative yeah sure she don't tribe she belong from Paul knew what tribe he was from he was a tribe of Benjamin he was a Jew and an Israelite he's using those terms interchangeably Paul was an Israelite and he was a Jew but he was from Benjamin not Judah you see only these people try to make those distinctions are pursuing an agenda the New Testament uses the term Israel 75 times in 73 verses it uses a Jew 174 times at the feast of Pentecost Peter cries he men of Judea acts 2 verse 14 a couple of verses later he says ye men of Israel same group same audience Holy Spirit's underlining something here for us I believe and then a couple of verses later says all the house of Israel using it in the national sense right so the regathered is one that's what the dry bones vision Ezekiel 36 and 37 declares that Judah and Jews in Israel will be joined as one of the regather 'is there no tent that aren't tribes that are lost okay and this is true today they're being regarded and all this underscores is the total physical descendants were not the people to whom the promises were made to get into that one get into Romans 9 verses 4 through 7 they're speaking to the Israel of God not just the fact that they have Jewish blood it's a whole nother issue not just the physical the physical descendants he is not the issue anyway moving on and RAM bomb took him mahalo the daughter of Jeremiah the son of David to be to wife and never hail the daughter Eliab the son of Jesse which bærum children Jewish Kamaria home and after her II took Mac I the daughter of Absalom which bear him Abijah and a tie and Aziza and she'll miss the rail Rome loved Mecca the daughter of Absalom of Allah's wives and his concubines for he took 18 wives and threescore concubines guys must have been exhausted and we got twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters and rebel made Abijah the son of Mecca the chief to be ruler among his brethren for he thought to make him King he dealt wisely in dispersed of all his children throughout the countries of Judah and Benjamin unto every fence city and he gave them vittle in in abundance and he desired many wives so he's going swell it would seem until we get to the end of rebel we have an attack by Egypt that God uses here came to pass and Rambo man established the kingdom and strength of himself and forsook the law of Lords that's his mistake you're doing pretty good made some mistakes about with taxation but he made some other mistakes he forsook the law of the Lord and all Israel with him came to pass that in the fifth year of King Rama bomb she sacked the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem because they had transgressed the law against the Lord Grahame had not been ruling long obviously and it became that his border fortifications were not adequate to guard Judah against the invasion of the Egyptian army on King Street that's pretty obvious cheese-like was the founder of the 22nd dynasty we're going to be particularly to the 25th dynasty a few dynasties coming but she Sheikh had earlier given asylum to Jeroboam so Jeroboam was a buddy of the King and so the king is attacking the enemy of his buddy the southern kingdom see how that you could just imagine the politics here grab alms fifth year the Lord brought cheese act as a punishment for air bombs sin of abandoning the law of the Lord containing the text then with 1200 chariots and threescore thousand sixty thousand that's a formidable bunch in any man's army and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt the lumens the Sioux Kings and the Ethiopians and by the way something you may not realize in those in that era the Ethiopians were the successful warriors very powerful group that's not obvious you know unless you've done some study of African ancient African history and he took the fence cities which pertain to Judah and came to Jerusalem Jimmy I the Prophet said a rare moment to the Prince of Judah that were gathered together to do because of shishak said of them thus saith the Lord ye have forsaken me and therefore have I also left you in the hand of she--she what can you imagine the king hearing that from the prophet of God hoo-wee thus saith the Lord that's always a disturbing opening he had forsaken me and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak whereupon the Prince of Israel and King humbled themselves and they said the Lord is righteous well that's essentially may acknowledge they don't make excuses they acknowledge and when the Lord saw that they humble themselves the word of Lord came to see me I saying they have humble themselves therefore I will not destroy them but I will grant them some deliverance and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the end of Shishak nevertheless they shall be his servants that they may know my service and the servants of the kingdoms of the countries so she sacked the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the King's house he took all he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon's made where does it say anything about the Ark of the Covenant if they mentioned the shields of gold you'd think they would have mentioned the Ark if they had gotten it his a big argument among scholars some say you think the Ark incumbent disappeared in the attack of shishak and there's evidence to the contrary but I just want you to be aware that's one of six theories about the Ark of the Covenant Shishak took it there's no evidence archaeologically or textually to support that but he did carry away treasures obviously shields of gold with Solomon blade instead of which king rambow made shields of brass and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard that kept the enders of the King's house they probably more practical anyway and when the King entered into the house of the Lord the guard came and fetched them and brought them again into the guard chamber and when he humbled himself the wrath of Lord turned from him that he would not destroy him altogether and also in Judah so King rheya bomb strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reign for a bomb was one in forty years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city which the LORD hath chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there there's nothing mother x' name was name of a man itis and he did evil because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord Wow what a sentence think about that for ourselves do we do evil when we fail to prepare our heart to seek the Lord you know read these quaint expressions in the Old Testament they may not come home to roost but we're probably in his shoes when we fail to prepare our heart to seek the Lord we're sitting we're not only just disenfranchising yourselves from a benefit we're actually indulged and sinned now the acts of rape mom first and last are they not written in the book of shimmy out of the profit and the veto of the seer concerning genealogies and and there were wars between riobamba and Jeroboam continually and we're able slipped with his father's and was buried in the City of David and Abijah his son reigned in his stead so there we are the bhaijan asseh are the two kings we're going to see in the next session I want you to read for a next session second chronicles 13 through 16 we're gonna as we continue the rest of the book of 2nd chronicles there's me a number of Kings show up but the key ones you're going to keep an eye out for is ASA next time then Jehoshaphat very colorful issue there joash Hezekiah and Josiah those are names I want you to be tuned into between Hezekiah and Josiah there's a bad apple by the name of Manasseh and you want to understand how bad that was in order to understand the peculiar things that occur in the days of Josiah and you really want to understand this is all in preparation to get to chapter 35 of second chronicles which is alone the worth of the price of the course so to speak because there's some release there's some surprises there in the text that have been overlooked but I would say more than 9 out of 10 students that go through it so we'll have some fun but second crunch 13th 6 through 16 let's stand for a closing word prayer

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