2 Chronicles 17-20: Jehoshaphat–Faithful King, Foolish Alliance

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Susan Merrill & Heather Rubio

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Join us for this episode where we see trusting God’s Word leads to lasting strength. But when fear fuels our choices, compromise can sneak in and leave a legacy we never intended. Themes of this podcast: Faithfulness doesn't need to be flawless. Jehoshaphat was a good and godly king, but not a perfect one. His story reminds us even faithful people can make foolish choices, and those choices can have generational consequences. Still, God’s mercy is bigger than our missteps. God’s Word builds s...

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0:00.0	This is the Bible Book Club, the book of Second Chronicles.
0:05.0	Welcome to the club.
0:13.8	Last time in chapters 13 through 16 of Second Chronicles,
0:17.8	Abbie Jod took the throne but only for three years. His greatest accomplishment
0:22.2	was a victorious battle against Jeroboam, King of Israel. Asa followed Abidja and he was one of four
0:29.5	good kings. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, including removing idolatry and
0:35.8	trusting God for victory in war, most notably against a million
0:40.0	Ethiopians. His trust in God then slipped later. He bribed the king of Aram to help him in a war
0:47.4	against Israel, and his son Jehosophat succeeded him as king. The chronicler's point in this story
0:53.0	is to present to the exiles the story of a faithful but not as king. The chronicler's point in this story is to present to the exiles the story of a
0:56.0	faithful but not perfect king in the hope that his story will inspire them to be faithful to.
1:03.1	Scene one, Jehoshaphat seeks God. Second Chronicles chapter 17. Jehoshaphat, his his son succeeded him as king and strengthened himself against
1:13.8	Israel he stationed troops in all the fortified cities of judah and put garrisons in judah and in the towns of
1:20.0	ephraim that his father asa had captured the lord was with jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his
1:26.3	father david before him he did not consult the bal because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not
1:28.6	consult the Bales, but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the
1:33.9	practices of Israel. The Lord established the kingdom under his control, and all Judah brought gifts
1:39.9	to Jehoshaphat so that he had great wealth and honor. His heart was devoted to the ways of the Lord.
1:46.3	Furthermore, he removed the high places and the Ashtra pulls from Judah. So for the record,
1:51.3	Jehoshaphat is the sixth king in the Davidic line. Like his father Asa, he was one of the four
1:57.4	good kings who followed David. His success is attributed to the fact that he sought
2:02.6	God and followed his commands rather than the now idolatrous practices of the kings of Israel.
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