Jensens survey of the old testament adam 120
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kingdom of the south (Judah) was left alone
to perpetuate a testimony for God. Ahaz, coregent with Hezekiah over Judah at the time
of Israel’s fall,5 did not champion God’s
cause because he was an evil king. But
Hezekiah, his son, was a God-fearing young
man whom God used to purge the
corruptions of Ahaz and restore true worship
to the kingdom. Study the ministries and
trials of Hezekiah in 18:1—20:21.
(25:1-26)
The fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. is the last
tragic event reported in 2 Kings. God had
waited and pleaded long with the people to
turn from sin to Him, but they would not.
The king, the priests, and the people Were
utterly corrupt. And so the Babylonian
captors came and demolished the city and
Temple, and took the people captive. Read
this key chapter carefully.
D. FALL OF JERUSALEM
Three in uences listed below might have
spared Judah from the fate already su ered
by Israel.
1. The example of Israel. Israel’s captivity
by a foreign power was really a judgment
for Israel’s sins against God. Israel
worshiped other gods, and so did not look to
God for deliverance from Assyria. Was
Judah guilty of the same sins? The threat
from outside was a situation very similar to
that of Israel. Chart 51 shows the names of
some of the foreign kings which played a
part during these closing centuries of Judah.
(Compare Chart 4.)
2. The reform programs of Judah’s kings.
There were two good kings of the surviving
kingdom of Judah: Hezekiah and Josiah.
Both instituted extensive religious reforms,
though the bene ts were only temporary
(Charts 45 and 51). See 18:1-8 and 22:1—
23:30.
3. The ministries of the prophets. The
prophets are shown on Chart 51. Isaiah and
Jeremiah were the key prophets of this
period. Their message was mainly one of
denunciation of sin and warning of
judgment. It could not be said of Judah, as it
also could not be said of Israel, that the
people were not given many warnings to
repent of their evil ways.
But the people “mocked the messengers of
God, despised His words, and sco ed at His
prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose
against His people, until there was no
remedy” (2 Chron 36:16).
The accompanying diagram represents the
crucial experiences of God’s people,
beginning with the institution of rule by
kings. Identify each of the four crucial
events (see Chart 45).
