The Bible Period by Period - A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods by Josiah Blake Tidwell
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just. But the kings were inferior and wicked. Not a single one of the
nineteen kings were godly. They established idolatrous and abominable worship as a religion of the king. This idolatry counterbalanced all the material advantages. (2) The Southern Kingdom was far superior from a spiritual point of view. It possessed the religious capital of the nation with the temple as a center of Jehovah worship. True it had only one third as many people, one half as much territory and that less fertile, and an inferior military equipment, but its superior spiritual power and its superior line of kings made it last 135 years longer than the northern kingdom. The Kings of the Northern Kingdom. 1. Jeroboam, 1 K. 12:20-14:20. Reigned 22 years and died. 2. Nadab, 1 K. 15:25-27. Reigned 2 years and was slain. 3. Baasha, 1 K. 15;27-16:6. Reigned 24 years and died. 4. Elah, 1 K. 16;6-10. Reigned 2 years and was slain. 5. Zimri, 1 K. 18:11-20. Reigned 7 days and suicided. 6. Omri, 1 K. 16:31-28. Reigned 12 years and died. 7. Ahab, 1 K. 16:29-22:40. Reigned 22 years and was slain in battle. 8. Ahaziah, 1 K. 22:51-2 K. 1:18. Reigned 2 years and died from an accident. |
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