Sunday Morning Bible Class

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Sunday Morning Bible Class The Bible
Story Semester 5 Till There was no remedy A
Study of the Divided kingdom Judah alone A
Bible Survey Based on the Bible Narrative
Cycle By Bob Sandra Waldron
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The Bible Story

• Creation
• Flood
• Scattering of People
• Patriarchs
• Exodus from Egypt
• Wandering
• Conquest of Canaan
• Judges
• United Kingdom

• Divided Kingdom
• Judah Alone
• Captivity
• Return
• Years of Silence
• Life of Christ
• Early Church
• Letters to Christians

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
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Divided Kingdom
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Divided Kingdom
Judah Alone
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Till There Was No Remedy
The Story of the
The Divided Kingdom
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Review

• 1 2 Kings
• Primarily deals with the kingdom of Israel
• 2 Chronicles
• Primarily deals with the kingdom of Judah

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Review

• During Solomons reign Israel
• reached its peak in size prosperity
• In his latter years Solomon turned away from God
  placed heavy burdens on the people
• God raised up enemies against him
• His kingdom began to erode
• The prophet Ahijah foretold that Jeroboam of
  Ephraim would become king of 10 tribes (1 Kings
  1129-31)

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Review

• Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam causing
  him to flee to Egypt where he lived until
  Solomons death
• After Solomons death, his son Rehoboam prepared
  to take the throne
• He called the people to assemble in Shechem
• Jeroboam returned and approached Rehoboam on
  behalf of the people

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1 Kings 124
"Your father made our yoke heavy now therefore,
lighten the burdensome service of your father,
and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we
will serve you."
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Review

• Rehoboam told the people to return in
  3 days
• In that time he sought advice
• His older advisors told him to relieve the people
• His younger friends told him to increase the
  burden
• Rehoboam took the advice of his young friends and
  the kingdom the divided

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Review

• Judah Benjamin remained loyal to Rehoboam
• They took the name Judah
• They maintained the capital of Jerusalem
• The 10 other tribes made Jeroboam their king
• They retained the name Israel
• They made Shechem their capital

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The Divided Kingdom
ISRAEL

• The Death of Jeroboams Son
• 1 Kings 141-18
• Jeroboams young son Abijah fell ill
• Jeroboam wanted to know if he would live or die
• He had his wife disguise herself and go to the
  prophet Ahijah in Shiloh

Judah Rehoboam Abijam Asa
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Note

• Ahijah was the prophet who told Jeroboam that he
  would be king over 10 tribes. (1 Kings 1129-31)
• Many years had passed since that prophecy and
  Ahijah was now old and blind.

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The Divided Kingdom
ISRAEL

• The Death of Jeroboams Son
• 1 Kings 141-18
• God told Ahijah that Jeroboams wife was coming
  to ask about her son
• When she arrived he called to her and said Come
  in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be
  another person? For I have been sent to you with
  bad news.

Judah Rehoboam Abijam Asa
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1 Kings 147-13
Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of
Israel"Because I exalted you from among the
people, and made you ruler over My people Israel,
and tore the kingdom away from the house of
David, and gave it to you and yet you have not
been as My servant Davidbut you have done more
evil than all who were before you, for you have
gone and made for yourself other gods and molded
images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me
behind your back therefore behold! I will
bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will
cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond
and free
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1 Kings 147-13
Arise therefore, go to your own house. When your
feet enter the city, the child shall die. And all
Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he
is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the
grave, because in him there is found something
good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house
of Jeroboam.
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The Divided Kingdom
ISRAEL

• The Death of Jeroboams Son
• 1 Kings 141-18
• Ahijah went on to say that God would
• Soon raise up a king that would cut off the house
  of Jeroboam
• Uproot Israel from their land and scatter them
  beyond the River

Judah Rehoboam Abijam Asa
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The Divided Kingdom
ISRAEL

• The Death of Jeroboams Son
• 1 Kings 141-18
• Jeroboams wife returned home
• As soon as she stepped over the threshold of the
  house, their son died
• All Israel mourned for him, just as Ahijah had
  said

Judah Rehoboam Abijam Asa
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Note

• 1 Kings 1417 says that Jeroboams wife returned
  to Tirzah.
• Tirzah had been a royal city of the Canaanites
  until it was destroyed by Joshua (Joshua 1224).
  By this time Jeroboam had moved his capital to
  Tirzah from Shechem. It would remain the chief
  residence of Israels kings until Omri took
  Samaria.

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The Divided Kingdom

• Judah Turns To Idolatry
• 1 Kings 1422-24 2 Chron. 121, 14

JUDAH

• Once Rehoboam felt secure in his kingdom, he and
  Judah forsook the Law of the LORD
• They committed more sins than their fathers
  before them

Israel Jeroboam
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1 Kings 1422-24
Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins
which they committed, more than all that their
fathers had done. For they also built for
themselves high places, sacred pillars, and
wooden images on every high hill and under every
green tree. And there were also perverted persons
in the land. They did according to all the
abominations of the nations which the LORD had
cast out before the children of Israel.
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Note

• Rehoboam Judah forsook God within the first
  five years of his reign. How could this have
  happened so soon?
• Notice that 1 Kings 1421 says that his mother
  was an Ammonite. That means that he was the son
  of one of Solomons foreign wives. He would have
  grown up seeing idolatry practiced.

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The Divided Kingdom

• Egypt Invades Judah
• 1 Kings 1425-28 2 Chron. 122-12

JUDAH

• Because of Judahs disobedience, God delivered
  them into the hand of Shishak, Pharaoh of Egypt
• Shishak invaded Judah in the 5th year of
  Rehoboams reign

Israel Jeroboam
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The Divided Kingdom

• Egypt Invades Judah
• 1 Kings 1425-28 2 Chron. 122-12

JUDAH

• Egypts army included
• 1,200 chariots 60,000 horsemen
• The Lubim (Supposed to be the people of Libya,
  which adjoined Egypt)
• The Sukkiim (Troglydites-a people of Egypt who
  dwelt in caves)
• The Ethiopians

Israel Jeroboam
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The Divided Kingdom

• Egypt Invades Judah
• 1 Kings 1425-28 2 Chron. 122-12

JUDAH

• Shishak took Judahs fortified cities and came
  to Jerusalem
• God sent the prophet Shemaiah to Rehoboam

Israel Jeroboam
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2 Chron. 125-8
"Thus says the LORD 'You have forsaken Me, and
therefore I also have left you in the hand of
Shishak.'" So the leaders of Israel and the
king humbled themselves and they said,"The LORD
is righteous." Now when the LORD saw that they
humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to
Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves
therefore I will not destroy them, but I will
grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not
be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of
Shishak. Nevertheless they will be his servants,
that they may distinguish My service from the
service of the kingdoms of the nations."
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The Divided Kingdom

• Egypt Invades Judah
• 1 Kings 1425-28 2 Chron. 122-12

JUDAH

• Shishak entered Jerusalem and carried away the
  treasures of the temple
• Including the golden shields that Solomon had had
  made for ceremonial occasions
• Rehoboam had bronze shields made to replace them
  (their wealth had depleted)

Israel Jeroboam
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The Divided Kingdom

• Egypt Invades Judah
• 1 Kings 1425-28 2 Chron. 122-12

JUDAH

• Because Rehoboam Judah humbled themselves, God
  did not allow Shishak to totally destroy them
• There was still some good left in Judah

Israel Jeroboam
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Note

• Shishak was the Pharaoh who had given Jeroboam
  refuge when Solomon sought to kill him.
• Even though we do not read it in the Bible,
  historians say that Shishak also invaded Israel.
  Egyptian records tell of 150 cities in Canaan
  that were attacked in the days of Shishak.

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The Divided Kingdom

• Rehoboams Reign
• 1 Kings 1421, 29-30 2 Chron. 1213, 15

JUDAH

• Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king
  he ruled for 17 years
• There was constant war between Rehoboam
  Jeroboam all their days
• Rehoboam died was buried in the City of David

Israel Jeroboam
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The Divided Kingdom

• Abijah Becomes King
• 1 Kings 151-8 2 Chron. 13

JUDAH

• Abijah is sometimes called Abijam
• His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom
• He followed the ways of his father Rehoboam and
  did not follow God as did David

Israel Jeroboam