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🗓️ 29 October 2025

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Why does God bring judgment? Why was Israel sent into exile? Will God give up on his people? In today's episode, Jensen shares how 2 Kings 15:27-38 encourages us to hold fast to God because he is trustworthy. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Kings 15:27-38

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Jensen Holt McNair. You've probably noticed if you've been reading along in the books of first and second kings with us that things have been devolving for a long, long time. And we shouldn't be
0:22.7	surprised. The author of these books has a point to make. He's following a theme, and he wants his
0:28.7	readers to recognize who the real king is. And not just that God is the true king, but that this fact is
0:36.8	good news for all people, that God is the true king, but that this fact is good news for all people, that God is
0:40.6	the true and better king. We learn this as we watch king after king fail his people, fall further
0:49.2	into idolatry and lead his people further into disaster. We watched the nations of Israel and Judah fall into
0:56.0	disarray and their people struggle. And now in today's passage, we see the beginnings of their
1:01.5	downfall. Second Kings 15 verses 27 to 31 focus on Israel's king, Pekaw, and Second King
1:09.5	and 18, tell us about Judah's king, Pekaw, and 2nd Kings 15 verses 32 and 38, tell us about Judas King, Jotham.
1:14.8	Now, in today's passage, we learn about the status of the faithfulness of both kings.
1:20.0	Pekah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and Jotham followed his father, Uzziah, and actually
1:25.5	did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He even
1:27.9	rebuilt part of the temple gates. But he still failed to remove the high places of worship,
1:35.3	and so his people continued to worship foreign gods during his reign. Now, both kings begin
1:42.4	raining within a year or so of each other, which we learn is in the year
1:46.5	of Uzziah, Jotham's father's death.
1:49.8	Now, I'm interested in the timing of these kings' ascension to the throne, because in Isaiah 6,
1:55.6	the passage where Isaiah, a prophet of the Lord, is commissioned in a service, he specifically references the year of the death
2:03.2	of King Uzziah as the year that he receives a life-changing vision from God. Let's take a look.
2:11.0	In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne,
2:17.4	and the train of his robe filled the temple.
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