Day 214 (2 Kings 20-21) - Year 5
The Bible Recap
Tara-Leigh Cobble
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
| 0:13.1 | If you're reading a print Bible, it may have been challenging to flip backwards so far |
| 0:17.4 | today from where we were in Isaiah. |
| 0:19.7 | We've been reading Isaiah's prophecies about Israel being taken captive by Babylon, but |
| 0:24.0 | that hasn't happened yet. |
| 0:25.4 | He was foretelling it, but we're still about 100 years off from when it actually happens, |
| 0:29.3 | which means we have a few final kings to meet. |
| 0:32.4 | Today we read the story of King Hezekiah's downfall. |
| 0:35.5 | And if this all feels familiar to you, it should, because we read it about a week ago |
| 0:39.5 | in Isaiah 38 on day 206. |
| 0:42.7 | As a refresher, Hezekiah starts out as a 10 on the following God's scale, but plummets |
| 0:47.4 | down to like a two in his final years. |
| 0:50.6 | During the early years of his reign, he was reestablishing worship and feast, tearing down |
| 0:54.7 | high places and generally not missing a step. |
| 0:57.8 | But then at one point, he gets sick, and God sends Isaiah to tell him it's time to die. |
| 1:02.7 | He's torn up about it. |
| 1:04.1 | He begs God to let him live, and God says, okay, you can have another 15 years. |
| 1:08.8 | Just put some smashed up figs on your boil so you can recover. |
| 1:12.5 | Before we move on in his story, let's investigate this a little bit, because it seems like |
| 1:16.4 | God said something would happen and it didn't happen. |
| 1:19.7 | So there are a couple of things that could be going on here. |
| 1:22.4 | Today, God changes his mind, or B, God's plan all along was to let Hezekiah live in |
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