2 Chronicles Devotionals

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2 Chronicles 1: Leading a People Not His Own
Solomon's reign opens with worship. He leads the whole assembly to Gibeon, where the bronze altar made in Moses' day still stands, and offers a thousand burnt offerings there…
2 Chronicles 2: Humble Hands for a Great House
Solomon's letter to Hiram of Tyre is full of large plans. The house he means to build will be great, he says, because his God is above every other god (2:5). He orders cedar and…
2 Chronicles 3: A Temple on Ground of Mercy
Chapter 3 is mostly measurements and gold: a foundation sixty cubits long, a Most Holy Place overlaid with fine gold, two cherubim with outstretched wings, and two bronze pillars…
2 Chronicles 4: Everything Needed to Draw Near
The furnishings in chapter 4 are not decoration. A great bronze altar stands in the courtyard for burnt offerings (4:1). The Sea, a huge basin of cast metal, holds water for the…
2 Chronicles 5: The Refrain of His Goodness
After years of work the temple is finished, and the ark of the covenant is carried into the Most Holy Place beneath the wings of the cherubim (5:7). Inside the ark there is…
2 Chronicles 6: Heard Even in a Far Land
Solomon kneels on a bronze platform in front of the whole assembly, spreads his hands toward heaven, and prays (6:13). He begins with what God has already done. What the LORD…
2 Chronicles 7: Mercy Promised to a Humbled People
Fire falls from heaven onto the offerings, the glory of the LORD fills the temple, and all Israel bows low on the pavement, giving thanks that he is good and his love endures…
2 Chronicles 8: The Steady Rhythm of Worship
Chapter 8 reads like an administrative record. Solomon rebuilds cities, fortifies Beth-horon, and conscripts the remaining Canaanite peoples as forced laborers while Israelites…
2 Chronicles 9: A King on God's Throne
The queen of Sheba arrives with hard questions and a long caravan. Solomon answers every one, and his house, his servants, and his offerings at the temple leave her overwhelmed…
2 Chronicles 10: Harsh Words and a Hidden Hand
The people come to Rehoboam with a reasonable request. They ask him to lighten the heavy load his father laid on them, and promise to serve him if he does (10:4). The older…
2 Chronicles 11: Leaving Everything to Seek Him
Rehoboam musters an army to win back the north, but the LORD sends Shemaiah with a short message. They are not to fight their brothers. They must go home, because this division is…
2 Chronicles 12: The Difference in Masters
Once Rehoboam feels secure, he and all Israel abandon the law of the LORD (12:1). Within a few years Shishak of Egypt sweeps through Judah's fortified cities and reaches Jerusalem…
2 Chronicles 13: Surrounded Front and Behind
Abijah faces Jeroboam's army with half as many men, and before the battle he climbs a hill and preaches. Jeroboam has driven out the LORD's priests and made golden calves for…
2 Chronicles 14: Help for the Powerless
Asa begins his reign by tearing down foreign altars and commanding Judah to seek the LORD (14:3-4). The land has rest, and Asa says plainly where it came from. They sought the…
2 Chronicles 15: Found by Those Who Seek
Asa is met by Azariah son of Oded, on whom the Spirit of God has come. He tells them that the LORD is with them while they are with him. If they seek him, he will let himself be…
2 Chronicles 16: Searching for Hearts to Strengthen
After thirty-five years without war, Asa faces a threat from Baasha of Israel. This time he does not pray. He empties the temple treasury and pays Ben-hadad of Aram to attack…
2 Chronicles 17: Delight That Sent Out Teachers
Jehoshaphat begins by strengthening Judah's defenses, but the chapter's real interest is his heart. The LORD is with him because he seeks the God of his father and walks in his…
2 Chronicles 18: A Cry in the Wrong Battle
Jehoshaphat ties himself to Ahab by marriage, and soon he is agreeing to go to war at Ahab's side (18:1-3). He asks for the word of the LORD first, and he presses for a true…
2 Chronicles 19: Judging in the Fear of God
Jehoshaphat comes home safely from Ramoth-gilead, and the prophet Jehu meets him with a hard word. He asks why the king has aided the wicked and befriended the LORD's enemies, and…
2 Chronicles 20: Singing Before the Rescue
As a vast army marches toward Judah, Jehoshaphat is alarmed. He resolves to seek the LORD and calls a fast (20:3-4). The king prays. He reminds God that he rules over every…
2 Chronicles 21: Kept for David's Sake
Jehoram's reign is one of the darkest in Chronicles. He secures his throne by killing all his brothers, marries a daughter of Ahab, and leads Judah into idolatry (21:4-6, 21:11).…
2 Chronicles 22: Mercy Behind Closed Doors
Ahaziah reigns for only a year, and the chapter is blunt about why it went so badly. His mother Athaliah counseled him in wickedness, and Ahab's family became his advisers, to his…
2 Chronicles 23: A Covenant to Be His People
After six years, Jehoiada the priest acts. He gathers the Levites and family heads, shows them the king's son, and grounds the whole plan in God's word. This boy must reign, as…
2 Chronicles 24: When Borrowed Faith Runs Out
Joash does what is right as long as Jehoiada the priest lives (24:2). He repairs the temple, and the people bring their contributions gladly until the chest is full (24:4-14).…
2 Chronicles 25: A Costly Act of Trust
Amaziah does what is right, but not with a whole heart (25:2). Preparing for war with Edom, he hires a hundred thousand soldiers from Israel for a hundred talents of silver…
2 Chronicles 26: Strength That Forgot Its Source
As long as Uzziah seeks the LORD, God gives him success (26:4-5). God helps him against the Philistines and others, his fame spreads to the border of Egypt, and he builds towers,…
2 Chronicles 27: A Quiet and Steady Reign
Jotham gets only nine verses, and there is nothing dramatic in them. He does what is right, as his father Uzziah had done, but he does not enter the temple as Uzziah did (27:2).…
2 Chronicles 28: Mercy From an Unlikely Army
Ahaz makes images of the Baals and sacrifices his sons in the fire (28:1-4). The LORD hands Judah over to Aram and Israel, and in one day Israel's army kills a hundred twenty…
2 Chronicles 29: Atonement Before the Song
In the first month of his reign, Hezekiah opens the doors of the LORD's house that his father had shut, and repairs them (29:3). He gathers the priests and Levites and tells them…
2 Chronicles 30: Pardon for the Unprepared
Hezekiah sends letters from Beersheba to Dan, even to the north. The letters urge the people to return to the LORD so that he will return to them, for he is gracious and merciful…
2 Chronicles 31: Abundance Traced Back to God
Hezekiah restores the priests and Levites to their duties and gives from his own possessions for the regular offerings (31:2-3). Then he asks the people of Jerusalem to provide…
2 Chronicles 32: Tested After the Victory
After all of Hezekiah's faithfulness, Sennacherib invades (32:1). Hezekiah gathers the people and tells them not to fear. The Assyrian king has only human strength, but Judah has…
2 Chronicles 33: Distress That Led Home
Manasseh's sins are listed without softening: altars to the starry host in the temple courts, his sons sacrificed in the fire, sorcery and mediums, and a carved idol set up in…
2 Chronicles 34: Light Given to a Young Seeker
Josiah becomes king at eight. At sixteen, while still young, he begins to seek the God of his father David, and at twenty he starts clearing Judah and Jerusalem of idols (34:1-3).…
2 Chronicles 35: A Warning From an Unexpected Mouth
Josiah's Passover is a model of joyful order. Priests and Levites take their posts, the king gives thirty thousand lambs and goats from his own flocks, and the Levites prepare…
2 Chronicles 36: Stirred to Send Them Home
The last kings of Judah pass quickly. Jehoahaz is taken to Egypt, Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin to Babylon, and Zedekiah hardens his heart and will not humble himself before Jeremiah…