A Review
1. Who was the first king over Israel and from which tribe was he chosen? (1 Sam. 10:20-25).
2.Who was the king who had been a shepherd boy? He was from the tribe of Judah and there is more told of him than of any other king. (1 Sam. 16:1-13).
3.Who was the wisest and richest king? (2 Chron. 9:22).
What did he have built for the Lord? (1 Kings 6:2).
4.Why was Rehoboam, the son of Solon, not a good king? (2 Chron. 12:1,14).
5.What king led his army with singing? (2 Chron. 20:20,21).
6.Who was the youngest boy crowned king, and where was he hid? (2 Chron. 22:12 and 24:1).
7.What king was made a leper? (2 Chron. 26:20, 21).
8.For what king was a day made longer? (2 Kings 20:10,11).
9.What king ruled the longest, and was for a time a captive? (2 Chron. 33:1,11).
10.Who was the young king who believed the book of God? (2 Chron. 34:1, 30).
11.Who was the king that burned the writing of God’s words? (Jer. 36:28).
12. Where were the last two kings carried captive? (2 Kings 24:15 and 25:7).
You can find the names of the men who were kings after King David in 1 Chronicles 3:10-16. In all there were twenty-one kings of Judah, and all lived in Jerusalem. Those after David are called his descendants, and a true king of Judah must be of his family. Some of the kings did much to honor God and for the people, but the most of them did evil.
About six hundred years after the last of these kings, God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus to be the rightful king in Jerusalem. He rode into the city on a mule, as these kings had. Many people called out:
“Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord”. But the leaders of Judah did not want Jesus to be king. Read Luke 19:28-48. Yet only Christ can be the perfect, just Ruler of Israel and all the nations. (Jer. 23:5,6).
“Our Lord. Jesus Christ: Which in His times He shall show, Who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lard of lords.” 1 Timothy 6:14,15.
ML 10/29/1939