Hey everybody, this is Shelby and Scott. We are in the book of Second Chronicles. We hope that you are

subscribed or following so that you don't miss a single episode as we walk through the Bible this year.

In Second Chronicles today, Scott, we're in chapters 28 through 30. And just a reminder, we're

mostly looking at the kings from the southern kingdom. So what kings are we going to walk through

in our chapters today? We've got a couple. We got King Ahaz and then King Hisacaya. So a lot of us are actually familiar with Ahaz, even if we are not aware that we're familiar

with him.

He shows up in Isaiah 7.

So in Isaiah 7, he has this conversation with the prophet Isaiah.

And Isaiah encourages Ahaz, implores him to trust in God for military protection rather than turning to other nations for help.

And Ahaz refuses to ask the Lord for help.

And in response, God gives Ahaz this sign of a virgin conceiving and giving birth to a child named Emmanuel.

So it's a passage that comes up a lot.

We read about Ahaz at Christmast time.

So, but Ahaz is a bad dude, just all around, not a good king. He offers child sacrifices at the valley of Ben Hennam.

At the end of chapter 8, 28, he shuts the door of the temple, which is a big deal,

Shell, because again, Chronicles, if there is one big message in in chronicles it's you take care of the temple

attend to the temple and he shudders it and um you know there's this comment in verse 19 that the

lord humbled judah because of king ahas who threw off restraint in judah and was unfaithful to the lord

not a good look for this guy. So again,

we're being shown this time a negative example of how important it is to worship the one true

God and that things go well when you do, things derail when you don't. Okay, so that's Ahaz. We're

also walking through the reign of Hezekiah today. What about him?

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