HISTORY of JUDAH

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HISTORY of JUDAH
North falls - Assyria - Sargon II 722 bce
Sargon II assassinated SENNACHERIB heads south
Sennacheribs Prism tells Assyrian version.
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Rehoboam
922
Rehoboam
(200 yrs.)
Hezekiah
(722)
JUDAH
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Jerusalem under siege, survives. Why?
II Kings Angel of Death Sirach plague II
Chron water tunnel
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SOUTHERN KINGDOM

• Attitude of South to fall of North
• Smug -- They deserved it!
• Complacent -- Wont happen to us!
• Arrogant -- Weve got Davids line!

• Prophets job
• Disturb the comfortable
• Comfort the disturbed

Here come Micah and Isaiah
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MICAH
poor, illiterate, rough, uncultured
Disturb Jerusalem in ruins. like it was never
there Comfort Savior will come from
Bethlehem
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MICAH
Famous quote used by the United Nations They
shall beat their swords into ploughshares (Mica
h 43)
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ISAIAH
Rich, well schooled, aristocratic,
Disturb REMNANT prophecy -- not enough to be
born a Jew. Only those few who remain
faithful to the Covenant will be
saved. Opposed religious formalism. Message
holiness of God. Be holy as God is holy.
Comfort IMMANUEL -- 714 savior born of a
virgin.
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SONG OF THE VINEYARD (Is. 51-7)
Owner Vineyard Plants Hedge Sour
grapes Animals
Yahweh Israel people protection evil
acts enemies
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JESUS STORY OF THE VINEYARD (Mt. 2133-40)
Yahweh Israel People Religious
authorities Prophets Jesus
Owner Vineyard Plants Tenants Servants S
on
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JOSIAH
Hezekiah Manesseh Amon Josiah
8 year old boy wonder great grandson of
Hezekiah a reformer backed by the prophets.
In his 20s orders restoration of Temple. Hilkiah,
Jeremiahs dad finds Torah. Josiah orders priests
to edit in death penalties.
Josiah killed in battle with Egypt at Megiddo.
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Egypt kills Josiah and puts his son Jehoiachim on
the throne.
Jehoiachim dies and Nebuchadnezzar replaces him
with his uncle Jehoiachin.
Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem in 597.
922
Hezekiah
Josiah
Jehoiachim
Jehoiachin
Zedekiah
722
597
586
610
Replaces Jehoiachin with Zedekiah.
586 Babylon destroys Judah, Jerusalem and the
temple.
3 great pillars gone King, Temple, Nation
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JEREMIAH
Before the fall, disturbs the comfortable pair
of drawers (Jer. 131-11) After the
fall, comforts the disturbed New Covenant
(Jer. 3131-34)
(Rembrandt)
Fulfilled in Jesus at Last Supper This is the
blood of the new and everlasting Covenant.
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JEREMIAH
Howd Jeremiah like being a Prophet?
He hated it (Jer. 20) Raged at God, cursed his
birth. Speak and is stoned. Remains silent
and gets an ulcer. NO WIN!
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SURVIVORS OF THE FALL

• 1. Most prisoners in Babylon EXILES
• 2. Few poor, sick, useless left behind
• ANAWIM
• 3. Some including Jeremiah (reluctantly)
• escape to Egypt DIASPORA

Diaspora largest community of Jews outside
Palestine in Alexandria. Here 70 scholars
translate Hebrew Into Greek SEPTUAGINT
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Accuracy of dates Babylonians dated Everything
by position of stars and planets. IBM
mathematician plotted movement of moon,
Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter Saturn from 601
bce to 1 bce.
BABYLON
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