{"id":90877,"date":"2021-03-12T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/the-kings-of-israel-and-judah-good-and-bad\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T04:00:37","slug":"the-kings-of-israel-and-judah-good-and-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keriritenour.com\/grace\/the-kings-of-israel-and-judah-good-and-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kings of Israel and Judah \u2013 Good and Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After the death of Solomon, the kingdom was divided in 931 BC. Ten tribes formed the Northern Kingdom, called Israel; Judah and Benjamin formed the Southern Kingdom, called Judah. The following is a list of the kings of Israel and Judah.  All the kings of Israel practiced idolatry; the worst served Baal. Many of the kings of Judah served idols; few served the Lord faithfully. Some bad kings were partly good; some good kings partly bad. The kings, the approximate dates of their reigns, and descriptions of their overall obedience to God are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KINGS OF ISRAEL:<\/td>KINGS OF JUDAH:<\/td><\/tr>
Jeroboam I, rebellious, 931\u2013910 BC
Nadab, bad, 910\u2013909 BC
Baasha, wicked, 909\u2013886 BC
Elah, evil, 886\u2013885 BC
Zimri, sinful, 885 BC
Tibni, iniquitous, 885\u2013880 BC
Omri (overlap), extra bad, 885\u2013874 BC
Ahab, the worst to that point, 874\u2013853 BC
Ahaziah, disobedient, 853\u2013852 BC
Joram\/Jehoram, mostly rotten, 852\u2013841 BC
Jehu, not good but better than the rest, 841\u2013814 BC
Jehoahaz, noncompliant, 814\u2013798 BC
Joash, wayward, 798\u2013782 BC
Jeroboam II (overlap), badly behaved, 793\u2013753 BC
Zechariah, abysmal, 753 BC
Shallum, full of vice, 752 BC
Menahem, horrible, 752\u2013742 BC
Pekahiah, idolatrous, 742\u2013740 BC
Pekah (overlap), awful, 752\u2013732 BC
Hoshea, appalling, 732\u2013722 BC<\/td>		Jeroboam I, rebellious, 931\u2013910 BC
Nadab, bad, 910\u2013909 BC
Baasha, wicked, 909\u2013886 BC
Elah, evil, 886\u2013885 BC
Zimri, sinful, 885 BC
Tibni, iniquitous, 885\u2013880 BC
Omri (overlap), extra bad, 885\u2013874 BC
Ahab, the worst to that point, 874\u2013853 BC
Ahaziah, disobedient, 853\u2013852 BC
Joram\/Jehoram, mostly rotten, 852\u2013841 BC
Jehu, not good but better than the rest, 841\u2013814 BC
Jehoahaz, noncompliant, 814\u2013798 BC
Joash, wayward, 798\u2013782 BC
Jeroboam II (overlap), badly behaved, 793\u2013753 BC
Zechariah, abysmal, 753 BC
Shallum, full of vice, 752 BC
Menahem, horrible, 752\u2013742 BC
Pekahiah, idolatrous, 742\u2013740 BC
Pekah (overlap), awful, 752\u2013732 BC
Hoshea, appalling, 732\u2013722 BC<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Give Us A King<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God did want Israel to have a\nking; he just had a certain kind of king in mind. In Deuteronomy\n17:14-20, long before the time of Saul, God said, “Be sure to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses<\/strong>” (emphasis added). God’s\nchoice for king: that is what Israel ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God’s Qualifications For Israel’s King<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the king was to be an\nIsraelite (Deuteronomy 17:15). This meant the\nking would belong to the people who recognized the authority of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the king must not acquire\nmany horses (17:16a). Horses came from Egypt,\nand horse-trading would tempt the Israelites to interact with the pagan people\nfrom whom they had been delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, the king must not take\nmany wives (17:17a). It was normal in ancient\ntimes to seal treaties between kings by intermarriage. Foreign women would\ninfluence the Israelites to abandon the unique lifestyle to which God had\ncalled them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourth, the king must not\naccumulate large amounts of gold and silver (17:17b).\nA king\u2019s success was dependence upon God; interacting with the pagan nations\nsupplying gold and silver would tempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifth, the king must keep a copy\nof God’s Torah with him to be read throughout his life, so he would rule\naccording to God’s principles (17:18-20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was God’s king: faithful,\nseparate from the pagans, guiding God’s people to righteous living as a\nshepherd leads his sheep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A King Such As Other Nations Have<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facing a Philistine threat at the\ntime of Samuel the prophet, Israel demanded a king.  The key to God’s displeasure was the request\nitself, to “appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have<\/strong>”\n(1 Sam. 8:20), not asking for a king that God\nwould choose, but one like that of the heathen world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the people asked for a ruler\nsuch as other nations had, God gave them Saul, a man who couldn’t track donkeys\n(1 Samuel 9:5) to show them what their kind of\nking would be: a self-absorbed failure. By contrast, David was God\u2019s choice for\nking, a man after his own heart. David lived by the words of the Torah, keeping\nthe Lord always before him. When he sinned with Bathsheba, he was beside\nhimself with sorrow, because he knew he had turned from God.  His sensitivity to God was intact and on\ndisplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who Do You Want As Your King?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solomon was the wisest king of all. Yet the Bible judges Solomon by God’s standards: “Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses” (compare 2 Chron. 9:25 with Deut. 17:16a). “The king [Solomon] made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones” (compare 2 Chron. 9:27 with Deut. 17:17b). “The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents” (compare 2 Chron. 9:13 with Deut.17:17b). “He [Solomon] had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines (mistresses)” (compare 1 Kings 11:3 with Deut. 17:17a).\u00a0 Finally, \u201cAlthough he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD\u2019s command\u201d (1 Kings 11:10).\u00a0 What a shock! The wisest human ruler who ever lived broke almost every command God gave for a king, ultimately dividing the very kingdom of God on earth \u2013 his sin for all to see; tragedy we sense yet today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are left wanting something\nbetter than an earthly king: \u201c\u2026one greater than Solomon\nis here” (Matthew 12:42).  That is God’s first and final choice for the\nideal king: Jesus the Messiah. \u201cBut if it doesn\u2019t\nplease you to worship the Lord, choose for yourselves today\u2026As for me and my\nfamily, we will worship the Lord\u201d (Joshua 24:15).  Yet again, God gives us a choice with\nramifications just as dramatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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