Lesson 6
9. Ahaziah 10. Joram 11. Jehu
Kings #9 - #11 of Israel
1 Kings 22:51-2 Kings 10
9. Ahaziah 1 Kings 22:51-2 Kings 1:18
Ahaziah is the son of Ahab and became
the king of Israel in Samaria after Ahab died. He reigned for 2 years. King
Jehoshaphat was the king of Judah. He was evil and followed his parents’ ways
of worshipping Baal.
Ahaziah was injured when he fell
through the lattice of his upper room. He sent messengers to ask the idol
Baal-Zebub if he would recover from his fall. But, God told Elijah to tell the
messengers that he would surely die in the bed. Ahaziah sent a captain with 50
men to look for Elijah when he heard the news.
Elijah was sitting on the top of a
hill and the captain told Elijah that “Man of God, the king said to come down.”
Elijah said if he is a man of God, let fire from heaven come down and consume
him and his men. A fire came from heaven and consumed them!
King Ahaziah sent another captain with
50 men. The same thing happened!
The third time the king sent his
captain and 50 men, the captain fell on his knees before Elijah and pleaded
with him to spare his life and the other men. The angel of God told Elijah to
go with the men and he would be safe.
Elijah told Ahaziah that because he
sent men to ask the idol Baal-Zebub about his injury. Did he think God wasn’t
in Israel to ask? Because of this, he would die. Which he did and because he
didn’t have a son; Jehoram (his brother) became the next king.
10. Joram 2 Kings 1:17, 2 Kings 3, 2 Kings 9:14-26
Joram is also called Jehoram. There was
also a King Jehoram of Judah. This Jehoram was the son of Ahab and was a king
for 12 years. He became the king of Israel in Samaria during King Jehoshaphat
of Judah’s 18th year of reign. He was an evil king. He didn’t
worship the idols that his parents did; but, he worshipped the golden calf like
Jeroboam did.
When King Ahab died, King Mesha of
Moab rebelled against Israel. He was a sheep breeder and had been paying the
king of Israel 100,000 lambs and 100,000 rams regularly.
King Joram left Samaria and gathered
the people. He said the king of Moab is rebelling and asked who would fight
with him? He also sent a message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah asking him to
fight with him. Jehoshaphat agreed and they met in the Wilderness of Edom. The
king of Edom met there also. They traveled for 7 days and began to worry
because there wasn’t any water.
The kings went to see Elisha so he
could ask God about their situation. Elisha said the only reason he would speak
to them was because of Jehoshaphat that worships God. Otherwise, he would let
them ask their idols that they worship! God told Elisha to make the valley full
of ditches. God said you won’t see wind or rain; but the valley will be filled
with water to drink. They will win the battle against Moab. They needed to
attack every fortified city, cut down the good trees, stop the spring waters
and ruin the good land with rocks.
Suddenly the next morning, the land
was filled with water. The Moabites looked out over the land, the sun was
shining and it looked like blood to them. They thought there was a battle and
everyone had died. They went down to the camp of Israel expecting to take the
loot. The people of Israel attacked the Moabites and killed them. They did
everything God told them to.
Later, Elisha sent a servant to anoint
Jehu to be the next king. He conspired against Joram. King Joram had been in a
battle with the Syrians and was in Jezreel recovering from wounds. When Joram saw
the men coming, he sent a horseman out to see if they came in peace. But the horseman
stayed with Jehu.
Finally, Joram had his chariot made
ready and King Joram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went to meet with
Jehu. Joram spoke with Jehu and when Joram turned around to talk to Ahaziah,
Jehu drew back his bow and shot an arrow through his back and out of Joram’s
heart. They put his body in the land that Ahab had stolen from Nathan.
11. Jehu 2 Kings 9-10
After Jehu became the king of Israel,
he had all of Ahab’s sons (or princes totaled 70) killed. He even had Jezebel killed. He had everyone killed in Ahab’s house
in Jezreel. Then he told all the people that he wanted to give a sacrifice to
Baal. He wanted all the Baal worshippers to assemble with him for this.
Everything was done to make this happen and he wanted everyone there. Jehu had
80 men on the outside and were told not to let anyone escape. Once the ceremony
started, Jehu told his men to kill the people inside worshipping Baal.
They went to the inner room and
destroyed the pillars and temple of Baal and made it a garbage dump. But, Jehu
still did not follow God’s laws. He worshipped the golden calves that Jeroboam had
made. God was pleased that he destroyed Baal. But not happy that he worshipped
the golden calves.
So, God began to ‘cut off parts of
Israel.’ They lost battles and they lost land. When Jehu died, his son Jehoahaz
became the next king. Jehu was a king of Israel for 28 years.
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