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1 Kings 15:1-8; 2 Chronicles 13-16
Here we see an interesting duo.
While they are connected they actually contrast each other.
While one does well, one does not.
One king was good and the other wasn’t.
We also see lessons of being right with God and still becoming bitter and be wrong with Gond and still having something right.
The passages concerning both of these kings are found in 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles.
While we will stay primarily in 1 Kings we will be looking at some Scripture in both.
I. THE REIGN OF ABIJAM
As we get started tonight realize that the 2nd king of Judah was called by two renderings of his name.
You will often find this in the Old Testament - and at times in the New Testament.
You might say, well why doesn’t someone make it easier.
Well, I appreciate translators were more interested in translating the Word of God correctly and faithfully rather than changing it to read in a way that they thought would be easier.
So, Abijam is known by both Abijam and Abijah.
A. His Lineage
Lineage, family history, and family trees were very important in Israel’s history and still in the nation of Israel today.
It matters greatly especially in concerning our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, so it was important that these records were kept.
It is proof of the veracity of the Word of God.
It is interesting that the mothers of the kings of Judah are often mentioned in the Bible.
This either gave them a good name or told how bad they were perhaps.
But we see a bit of the lineage of Abijam in this passage, and it tells, in a round about way, a story of possible bitterness and resentment.
We know his father’s lineage already, but it tells his mother’s lineage.
1.
His mother was Maachah - Oppression
This was Abjiam’s mother.
Of course his father was Rehoboam.
She is also called Michaiah in 2 Chronicles 13:2.
2. His grandfathers
On the maternal side, there was Uriel:
a. Uriel
b.
Absalom
We see this in our text tonight: v.1 …the daughter of Abishalom.
She was Abishalom’s daughter.
This is another rendering of Absalom’s name.
As I said at the beginning.
Perhaps there was bitterness and resentment in her heart toward’s God.
Perhaps she thought it was to be her place to the be the daughter of the king.
To marry into the kingdom.
If you remember, this, Absalom did not have a son.
Perhaps Maacha sat at Absalom’s place wishing she were queen.
And perhaps she found her way back into the kings palace by marrying Rehoboam, being the granddaughter of Absalom, his daughters daughter.
The only daughter that Absalom had was Tamar, so Tamar must have married Uriel, an Maacha was born to them.
B. His days as king
There is not a lot about his kingdom, but it is not near the least either.
1.
It lasted only three years
It was a short-lived reign.
There is not a lot known about his reign - but we will study a few things that we do know about him, and can learn from him.
2.
He was at war with Jeroboam
This is recorded mainly in 2 Chronicles 13.
Abijam’s verbal attack
2 Chron 13:4-12
Abijam was trying to bring Israel back into his kingdom by force.
I think the war was was out of God’s will because it was God that appointed Jeroboam to power.
So for Abijam, who throughout that chapter claimed their rebellious ways - really was overlooking his own sin.
Jeroboam sets a trap but God delivers
2 Chron 13:13-18
But God, by his own mercy and according to His own purposes delivered Abijam.
The key verse is certainly
C. The Take-aways from his kingdom
There are a few things we have learned.
He walked in the sins of Rehoboam.
1.
He sinned as his father
His father was Rehoboam, nothing good was said of him.
Nothing good was the result of his life.
His son was no better.
Usually the Word of God says that a king was good or wicked, but for both of these kings Rehoboam and Abijah, it doesn’t say either of these things.
There is significance of course in all that God’s says in His Word, I think things that are not there in one place while mentioned parts are things to ponder as well.
Why was it not mentioned whether they were good or bad?
Well, they were the first two kings of Judah - perhaps God was waiting for something to develop that was good.
Maybe it was enough that God said that he sinned just like his father - that this was enough evidence that he was not a good king.
2.
He was there because of David
David was his great grandfather.
God left a lamp in Jerusalem and He would keep that lamp on for David’s sake for many generations.
3. God can still answer prayers according to His will from unrighteous people
II.
Revival Under Asa
1 Ki.
15:8–14; 2 Chron.
14:1–16:14
If things went wrong under Abijam, we can see that things went right under Asa.
A. The first right king of Judah
Can I remind everyone of what right is;
It is not what you think or what I think but right is defined by God and what is right in his eyes.
B. The right changes he made
1. Drove out the sodomites
I thing it is interesting that the Bible calls them sodomites.
This is a biblical term that describes a person by the sin that they do.
A sodomite is someone that commits homosexual sin.
2. Removed the idols
Like a sodomite so is an idolater.
God hates idolatry in all its forms.
He removed them.
3.
He dealt with Maachah
This was his grandmother, the grandaugther of Absalom and daughter of URIEL.
She got aback int
C.
He warred with Baasha, Israel’s king
15:16-22
Baasha
D. He battled against the Ethiopians
2 Chron 14:9-15
I love the prayer that Asa offers up in
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