Devotions from 2 Chronicles

Passage Read: 1 Chronicles 27 - 2 Chronicles 1 Meditation Verse: 2 Chronicles 1:10 Solomon recognizes his own limitation, and his responsibility before God to rule over God's people. He knows he's not up to the task, but it is the one thing that consumes…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 2-5 Meditation Verses: 2:11-12 Huram, king of Tyre, almost sounds like he believes in the Lord. He's not offended when Solomon writes him that the Lord is greater than all gods, and he responds by blessing the Lord who made heaven…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 6-9 Meditation Verses: 7:13-14 This well-known verse comes on the heels of disastrous conditions that God brings on the people. If the Lord sends pestilence or drought or locusts on the land, it is for discipline, because the people have sinned…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 10-13 Meditation Verse: 12:14 Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord. It was not the most important thing to him, it was one of many things that was important, perhaps because of tradition, because…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 14-17 Meditation Verse: 16:9 Earlier the Lord had told Asa that He was with those who were with Him. He's not necessarily with those who claim Him, but with those who are actually with Him, seeking His will and doing it.

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 18-21 Meditation Verses: 18:6-7 Somehow Jehoshaphat was able to recognize that of all these prophets, not one was from the Lord, though they all claimed to speak a message from the Lord. When he asked Ahab for a prophet of God,…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 22-25 Meditation Verses: 25:7-8 This is not a good period in Judah's history, for several kings in a row are only half-committed to God. It is stated a number of times, in several ways, that when the leaders turn away from…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 26-29 Meditation Verses: 28:2-5 How quickly the fortunes of God's people can turn! Uzziah and Jotham were good kings, faithful and obedient to the Lord (except when Uzziah thought he deserved to burn incense to the Lord like the priests), and…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 30-33 Meditation Verse: 33:23 Manasseh reigned 55 years, during much of which he was unfaithful to the Lord in the worst ways. He was taken captive to Babylon, where he humbled himself and the Lord restored him to his throne. His…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 34 - Ezra 1 Meditation Verses: 2 Chronicles 35:21-22 Josiah decided to tangle with the king of Egypt, evidently knowing it was wrong, such that he felt compelled to disguise himself. It was not a battle he needed to fight; it…