Hour 7 The Monarchy Samuel

Hour 7 The Monarchy Samuel, Kings, Chronicles
Two Basic Discoveries
1. The Bible Consists of
-66 separate books
-Penned by over 40 authors
• These 66 books penned by over 40 guys over a period of virtually 2,000 years
-Over a period of over several thousand years that are an integrated message system, meaning every detail is there by design.
2. It can be demonstrated that the origin of this message is from outside of our dimensions of time and space.

The Central Theme of the Bible
• The Old Testament is an account of a Nation.
• The New Testament is the account of a Man.
• The Creator became a Man. His appearance in our history is the Central Event of
all history.
• He died to purchase us and is alive now.
• The most exalted privilege is to know Him. That’s what the Bible is
all about.
The Panorama of History
The rest of the Old Testament in a historical sense goes from the “Exodus” to the “Exile” When the” House of Judah” finally goes into Babylonian Captivity.

The New Testament
Occurs in one lifetime

Rise and Fall of the Monarchy
• 1st & 2nd Samuel (LXX The Septuagint speaks of the : 1st & 2nd “Kingdoms”) Samuel is the bridge between the judges and the kings
– Samuel (Latin Vulgate follows the same pattern of the Septuagint: “Kings”)
– Saul
– David
• 1st & 2nd Kings (LXX: 3rd & 4th “Kingdoms”)
– David’s 40-year reign (Latin Vulgate: “Kings”)
– Solomon
– The Divided Kingdom
– The Exile:
• The Wipe out of the Northern Kingdom
• Exile of the Southern Kingdom
Assyria and Babylon
In the Septuagint, these books are called 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th “Kingdoms”
(Judah and Israel). In the Latin Vulgate, they are called “Kings.”
The Monarchy
• The Southern Kingdom outlasts the Northern Kingdom
• The Northern Kingdom gets destroyed and the Southern Kingdom goes into captivity
The 1st Book of Samuel
• Samuel, Saul
The 2st Book of Samuel
• David
Solomon will be picked up by 1Kings
Southern two kingdoms
• Judah and Israel
• In 1Kings you have Elijah
• 2Kings A more soft-spoken, but equally colorful character is Elisha

• 1st & 2nd Chronicles
– Recap of the Southern Kingdom: Judah Davidic line

• Samuel: The Last of the Judges (1 Sam 1 - 7).
– Birth and youth.
– Call and Office.
– Times and Acts.

• Saul: The First of the Kings (1 Sam 8 –15).
– Appointment as king Saul.
– Promising Beginning Saul.
– Later Folly and Sin Saul.

• David: The Greatest of the Kings (1 Sam 15 – 31).
– Anointing by Samuel.
– David Service to Saul.
– Years as a fugitive.

Samuel
• Equaled only by Moses.
• Ends the period of the Judges.
• Heads the order of the prophets.
– Founded the schools of the prophets.
• Places Israel’s first king (Saul) on the throne.
• God was not surprised that the people would want a king,
 David’s genealogy is in the book of Genesis 38 and the book of Ruth.
• The problem was that the people wanted a king before God had prepared him.
• Later anoints David.
– Confronts Goliath.
– Flees Saul as a fugitive.
Samuel is one of the most venerable figures in Israel’s history. 1 Samuel
covers about 115 years: from the birth of Samuel to the death of Saul
(when David is 30). David’s genealogy anticipated in Gen 38 encrypted, and the
Book of Ruth!

Philistine Threat
• Philistine in Latin is Palestine
• Oppressed Israel for 40 years.
• Samson had only tactical successes tribe of Dan.
• Ark was lost to them briefly in 5 cities (1 Samuel 4).
• They sent the Ark back, with restitution of the 5 cities that had been plagued
• 5 gold mice and 5 gold hemorrhoids 1Samuel 5
• Defeated under Samuel’s leadership.
• Major nemesis for Saul.
– Ultimately subdued by David.

Self-Determination
• People clamor for a king.
– To “go out before us to fight our battles.” (1 Samuel 8:20).
• God had promised kings to Abraham from the beginning (Genesis 17:6, 16;
35:11).
– Request born in a committee meeting, not a prayer meeting.
• However, faithfulness to God was to be their top priority (Deuteronomy 17:14-20).
1 Samuel 8:7
And the LORD said unto Samuel, “Hearken unto the voice of the people
in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have
rejected me, that I should not reign over them…”

Samuel warns them that this will invite a harvest of regrets…
David
• Goliath was descendant of the Anakim tribe of giants; Anaq: 6062 "neck," a giant people around Hebron and in Philistia,
– 9 feet tall; and a professional combatant.
– David picks up five stones from the brook .
• Why 5 stones?
– Goliath from a family of 5! (2 Samuel 21:18-21).
• Public notice of David as a deliverer of Israel and chief of Saul’s men of war.
• Becomes devoted friend of Jonathan, Saul’s son.
Deuteronomy 2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

Goliath descended from Zamzummim—(Deut 2:20-21); hybrids like the Anakim and Nephilim…

Troy’s notes:
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
giant, Rapha, Rephaims; Or raphah {raw-faw'}; from rapha' in the sense of invigorating; a giant -- giant, Rapha, Rephaim(-s). See also Beyth Rapha'. Rapha to cure, cause to heal, physician, repair, thoroughly, make whole
Or raphah {raw-faw'}; a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure -- cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole.
Deuteronomy 32:39 I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver...
Nephilim…Brown-Driver-Briggs
Proper name, of a people old race of giants (perhap...as extinct and powerless; see especially WRS in Deuteronomy 2:11; or as shadowy, vaguely known, SchwZAW xviii (1898); — ancient inhabitants of Canaan [west of Jordan?], Genesis 15:20; Joshua 17:15  compare 1 Chronicles 20:4, plain south of Jerusalem 2 Samuel 5:18,22; 2 Samuel 23:13; 1 Chronicles 11:15; 1 Chronicles 14:9; Isaiah 17:5; Joshua 15:8; Joshua 18:16; ?? east of Jordan Deuteronomy 2:11 ( tall, compare Deuteronomy 2:10), Deuteronomy 2:20 ("" id.; tall; = Zamzummim); in Bashan, Genesis 14:5, Og the last of them Deuteronomy 3:11 (of huge size), Joshua 12:4; Joshua 13:12; Deuteronomy 3:13.

Saul
• Early promise
– Striking physical superiority.
– Modest, direct, generous.
• Later decline
– Irreverent presumption
• Willful impatience.
– Disobedience and deceit.
– Failure to destroy the Amalekites.
– The Witch at Endor.
Saul was a Benjamite from Gibeah (cf. close of Judges!). Sets his capital
there. Although early on he showed promise,
-Saul became impatient: the
Philistines were arrayed against Israel;
-Saul was to wait for Samuel at Gilgal;
-Saul violated the priest’s prerogative, offering prearranged
sacrifices to the Lord.
• Following shortly, Saul calls the priest to ask for guidance, but rushes men off… etc.
- Saul saves Agag
• [Haman will be a descendant of Agag, the king of the Amalekites]
• Mordecai is a descendant of Shimei whom David spared
• The Witch at Endor
 -In desperation Saul seeks out a medium in Endor
• Who was herself alarmed by
-Samuel’s arrival… predicting Saul’s death the next day at Gilboa.
• A promising career ends in ignominy
.-“Self” will miss the best and court the worst.
Wonderful opportunities, in themselves, do not crown men.

The 2nd Book of Samuel
• David’s Triumphs (2 Sam 1 – 12)
– King of Judah (at Hebron) 7 years.
– King of All Israel (at Jerusalem) 13 years.
• David’s Troubles (2 Sam 13 - 24)
– In his Family.
– In the Nation.
David Accepted As King Over All Israel
• Human Kinship:
“We are thy bone and thy flesh…”
• Proven Merit:
“Thou leddest out and broughtest in Israel.”
• Divine Warrant:
“The Lord said unto thee: Thou shalt be a captain over Israel.”
A sermon in itself: Christ’s right of kingship over our lives. Is the
“Government of my life upon His shoulders?”
The Davidic Covenant: 2 Samuel 7
• Affects all that follows.
– in the Scriptures.
– in the history of mankind.
• Divine Confirmation of throne in Israel.
• Perpetuity of the Davidic Dynasty.
• Davidic Covenant is Unconditional.
• Same a s the Abrahamic Covenant
• Messianic Implications.
2 Samuel 7:11-13
Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee a house. And when thy
days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed
after thee… and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for
my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

Divine confirmation of the throne in Israel. Predicted perpetuity of the Davidic Dynasty: • • “House,” or posterity; “
• Throne,” or royal authority;
• “Kingdom,” or sphere of rule.
2 Samuel 7:14-16
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten
him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: But my
mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put
away before thee. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for
ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

All three thine house, thy kingdom, thy throne (v.16) FOREVER! Confirmed in v.29; 36, 37. With an oath in
Psalm 89:35; Acts 2:30.
Perpetuity Confirmed
Psalm 89:29, 35-37
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of
heaven. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall
be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Acts 2:30
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath
to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise
up Christ to sit on his throne;

• Where is Christ today?
• On His Father’s throne. Jesus is the fulfillment of this promise

Key Points
• Divine Confirmation of throne in Israel.
• Perpetuity of the Davidic Dynasty.
• Davidic Covenant is Unconditional.
• Messianic Implications: “Son of David, Son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1);
“Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Root of David” (Revelation 5:5)

The Scarlet Thread Continues
• The “Seed of the Woman” Genesis 3:15
The Human Race
• Abraham Genesis 22:18
The Nation
• Jacob Genesis 49:10
The Tribe of Jacob
• David 2 Samuel 7:11-16
The Family of David,
• As God focuses He revelation of how the Messianic plan is going to work, that allows Satan to focus his attack..
David’s Zenith
• Victorious Warrior, Clever General;
• Subdues...
• Philistines to the West (Saul’s nemesis);
• Syrians and Hadadezer in the North;
• Ammonites and Moabites on the East;
• Edomites and Amalekites in the South.
• Constructive Administrator:
– “Judgment and justice to all the people.”
– Organizes Priesthood into 24 Courses.
• 24 is the number that is indicative of the Priesthood
• The priesthood was of the Levites and the
• Kings were of the tribe of Judah.
David was a:
• Major Poet,
Song Writer:
Psalms
David’s Turning Point
• His Great Sin
--(Honesty of the Scriptures):
They don’t paint David as having no faults
--adultery; then murder, this was not a one night stand, this was the result of a process
• Culmination of a Process:
• He was at prosperous ease and self-indulgence.
• You are most vulnerable at the bottom poverty or the top prosperous
• Accumulating wives forbidden (Deuteronomy 17:17).
• Remorse and Repentance after Nathan the prophet confronts him  (Psalm 51).
“A man after God’s own heart…” (1 Samuel 13:14; Acts 13:22).
• He’s honest, he owns his sins, David acknowledges his sins, and he repents of it.
• God has a lot of room for a repentant sinner.
• Bathsheba was the granddaughter of Ahithophel, who later counsels
Absalom against David…

Years of Suffering
• Remorse and Contrition did not obliterate the consequences:
–Incest
–Fratricide
–Intrigues
–Rebellion
--Civil War
• Not allowed to build the Temple (yet he still prepaid most of the expenses…)

Troubles in the Family
• “The sword shall never depart from thy house” 2 Samuel 12
• 1st son by Bathsheba died
• Loss of moral authority:
• Amnon raped David’s daughter Tamar;
• Absalom killed Amnon; Absalom led a rebellion against David.
• Counseled by Ahithophel: Adonijah seized the kingship from Solomon.
[Remember, Ahithophel is Bathsheba’s grandfather (her father, Eliam, was Ahithophel’s son).]
• Adonijah attempts to seize the throne from Solomon

1st Kings: “Discontinuance through Disobedience”
• King Solomon:
40 years 1 Kings 1-11
– Accession
– Temple Built
– Zenith of Fame and Glory
– Declension and Decease King Solomon turns apostate

• Divided Kingdom: 80 years 1 Kgs 12-22
– Accession of Rehoboam increases taxes
• Jeroboam peels off in rebellion the Northern Kingdom
– Kings of Southern Kingdom
(“Judah” total of 23 kings) Saul, David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah, Athaliah, J(eh)oash, Amaziah, Uzziah/Azariah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah/Jehoiachin, Zedekiah
The Good Kings Asa 1 Kings 15; Jehoshaphat 1 Kings 22; Joash 2 Kings 11-12; Amaziah 2 Kings 14; Azariah 2 Kings 15; Jotham 2 Kings 15; Hezekiah 2 Kings 18-20; Josiah 2 Kings 21-23
Babylonian Captivity- 70 years
– Kings of Northern Kingdom
(“Israel” total of 20 kings) Jeroboam, Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Tibni, Omri, Ahab, Ahaziah, Jehoram, Jehu, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam II, Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, Hoshea.
No Good Kings recorded
Assyrian Captivity- No return

• The Prophet Elijah
Solomon
• Acceded when 15 years old according to: (Flavius Josephus);
• Adonijah attempted to preempt, but was thwarted by Nathan;
• David, on his deathbed, instructs Solomon to “clean house” of over due punishments: Joab (for Abner), Shimei, et al.
• Abner was the Uncle of Saul;
• leader of Saul’s army; introduced David after victory over Goliath; etc.)
• He switches over to David; a rival of Joab, who kills him.
• Shimei was a Benjamite who cursed and threw stones at David; ostensibly repented, but his fidelity was in doubt. [Shimei is an ancestor of Mordecai…]
The Temple
• Preparations: Cedars of Lebanon (vs. coarser sycamore); Hiram’s friendship with David;
• Design given to David by God!
• 183,300 Workforce:
--30,000 men (10,000/mo shift);
--70,000 carriers;
--80,000 hewers in the mountains; and,
--3,300 supervisors.

Our Personal Architecture?
• Seven times declared: “Ye are the Temple of God”:
1 Corinthians 3:9-17; 6:19;
2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:20,21; Hebrews 3:6; 1 Peter 2:5; 4:17.
• Appears to hold the key to our “software” architecture: Heart? Soul? Spirit? Mind?

Holy of Holies = Spirit
Holy Place = Heart
Porch = Subconscience
Inner Court = Willpower
Outer Court = Soul
Shekinah Glory
Mercy Seat
Ark of the Covenant
Altar of Incense
Tables of Shewbread
Lampstands
Jachin South Pillar “In His Counsel”
Boaz North Pillar “In His Strength”
Lavers of Bronze
Holocaust Altar
Molten Sea

Body
Willpower
Heart
Soul
Spirit
Mind
Subconscious? Headers or store houses used by the priests to put away their idols, false gods. Hide things that affect our behavior. See: the book, “The Way of Agape”.












The “Molten Sea”: 1 Kings 7:23
Is the Bible “Inerrant”? What about 1 Kings 7:23?
1Kings 7:23
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was
round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits
did compass it round about.

The sceptics said that this is an error in the Bible, a Rabbi happened to point out that in the Hebrew it’s misspelled. The Masoretes, when they found a word in the text that they were copying that was apparently wrong, they didn’t correct it, they marked it. Then they would put in the margin what apparently was the correct version. The apparent mistake or the error, variant was called a “kethiv” and the correct version was called a “qere”.

A Spelling Lesson
kethiv (written variation) = 111
qere (marginal annotation) = 106
= 100                                                                 111
=     6                                                                 106
=     5

                                                        10 x 3 x 111/106 = 31.41509433962 cubits

Well, if you go through these letters, it turns out that the “kethiv”, that is the written variations is a “kapf” a “vav” and a “heh”.
And the way it should be spelled is just with a  “kapf” and a “vav”. Now, a  “kapf” and a “vav” would be the value for “qere” should be 106, but here they’ve added a “heh” at the end of the word. Now here you can’t even tell, because it’s just a breath. It’s like putting the “H” at the end of a word, oftentimes you can’t tell it’s there from the pronunciation.

But the  “heh” has a value of 5. And by the way, the “heh” is also the breath or the spirit,
So “qere” should be 106, but the way it’s spelled, is 111. And when you apply that correction to the text, it says that the circumference was 31.415 and some other things. In other words we have a circumference of 46 feet that is expressed with an error of less than 15, 000ths of an inch. And that’s a lot better than we would had gotten if we would have used 22 7ths, as an approximation. The precision is astonishing.

It’s “pi” times the diameter
Circumference = 3 x diameter?
No! p x diameter = 31.41509433962.
3 x 10 x 111/106 = 31.41509433962 cubits! …in a circumference of over
46 feet, an error of less than 15 thousandths of an inch!

Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1
There’s another place that “pi” appears in the Bible text, “pi” is one of the dimension less ratios. “In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth”. If you take that in Hebrew and you take the number of letters times the product of the letters and divide it by the number of words and times the product of the words, you get “pi” to 4 decimal places.
The number of letters x the product of the letters
The number of words x the product of the words
3.1416 x 1017 = Pi
This also happens in John 1:1you get the value of “E”
Hebrew Alphanumerics


















Solomon
• Personally
--brilliant, but he lacked moral vigor;
--excessively self indulgent.
• Historically:
– Peak of Israel’s prosperity;
– Visit by the Queen of Sheba;
– “Solomon in all his glory…”
• Typically:
– Positive: Millennial Reign?
– Hidden Negative? (There were 6 steps to his throne and his Salary was = 666 talents a year, et al.)
• Solomon’s salary was 666 talents a year
666 only appears twice in scripture Revelation 18 and here.

The Zenith of the Kingdom
• From the Mediterranean to the Euphrates.
• From the Red Sea and Arabia to Lebanon.
• Tributary states held in subjection.
• Canaanites became peaceable subjects or useful servants.
• Immense treasures won by David, supplemented with oppressive taxation.
The Literature of Success
• The foundation of the Torah.
• The history of Moses to Samuel.
• The patriarchal teaching of Job.
• The theology of the Psalms.
• The practical wisdom of the Proverbs.
• The mystical suggestions of the Song of Songs.
• Solomon: 3,000 proverbs, 1,005 songs, celebrated natural history writings.
Solomon’s Failure
• Israel’s kings should not multiply wealth, horses, or wives (Deuteronomy 17:14-20). Solomon did all three: he traded in chariots, horses;
indulged many foreign wives
• 700 wives + 300 concubines! from the very nations
warned against; and, he introduced false gods and false worship.
• Solomon’s self-life had its full swing and
–In the end, turning away sad and sick of it all,
• he says in Ecclesiastes: “All is vanity…”
• Not a pessimistic book
The Apostasy
• His excessive taxation alienated the affections of his people.
• Led astray by his wives: he built temples to Chemosh, Baal-Peor, obscene idol of Moab; Moloch, the god of Ammon; and, Astoreth, goddess of Sidonians.
• Adversaries stirred up a rebellion:
--Ephraim became the center of disaffection.

Ripped through Disobedience: Kingdom to be rent in twain
1 Kings 11:13
Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee,
and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have
commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give
it to thy servant. Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy
father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. Howbeit I will not
rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my
servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.

The Divided Kingdom
• Rehoboam’s Folly:
• ill-advised expansion of excessive taxation.
• Jeroboam’s “Opportunity”:
• Established alternative worship centers (to break Jerusalem’s hold on the people).
• Dan in the North; Bethel in the South.
• The Nation split into two:
--The Northern Kingdom under Jeroboam (“Israel”)
–The Southern Kingdom under Rehoboam (“Judah”).

Elijah (Last Six Chapters of 1st Kings)
• Ministry to the Northern Kingdom.
• New Testament speaks of him more than any other OT prophet.
• Appears twice in NT: Transfiguration (Matthew 17);
• Two Witness (Revelation 11).
• Performed Eight Major Miracles, including:
– Suspension of rain for 3 ½ years (1 Kings 17);
– Confrontation on Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18).
• Translated into Heaven (2 Kings 2).
Queen Jezebel
• Daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidonians.
• Wife of King Ahab of Israel (1 Kings 16).
• Synonymous with crafty, cruel, malicious.
• Naboth’s vineyard acquired for Ahab through an inquisition, false accusation, and execution (1 Kings 21).

Confrontation on Mt. Carmel
• 450 prophets (+ 400 prophets of the “groves”).
• Challenged Baal to match altars and sacrifices.
• Mocked them openly…then Elijah sets up 12 stones for the altar of God
• After dousing his sacrifice 3 times with water,
• Elijah called fire down from heaven and it consumed his offering...
• …then slaughtered the 450 prophets of Baal.
1 Kings 18:21
“And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between
two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.
And the people answered him not a word.”

The 2nd Book of Kings
Second Kings contains the most tragic national record ever written...
• Annals of Israel, the Northern Kingdom (2 Kings 1-10)
– Ministry of Elisha;
– Up to the death of Jehu, Israel’s 10th king.
• Alternating Annals of Both Kingdoms (2 Kings 11-17)
(Jonah, Amos, and Hosea prophesy)
– Up to the Assyrian Captivity of Israel.
• Annals of Judah, The Southern Kingdom (2 Kings 18-25)
(Obadiah, Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and
Jeremiah prophesy)
– Book ends with the Babylonian Captivity of Judah.
Elisha 16 miracles Elijah did 8
• Receives Elijah’s Mantle
• Desires “double portion” (2 Kings 2:9) and performs 16 major miracles.
• Typical Implications
Elijah—John the Baptist.
Elisha—Healing acts; gentler words; life out of death.

A Glimpse of Unseen Warfare:
2 Kings 6:8-23
Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his
servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp. And the man
of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such
a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. And the king of Israel sent
to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved
himself there, not once nor twice. Therefore the heart of the king of Syria
was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto
them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? And one of
his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in
Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy
bedchamber.
And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And
it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. Therefore sent he thither
horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and
compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen
early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses
and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall
we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than
they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open
his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man;
and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of
fire round about Elisha.
2 Kings 6:8-16
We can’t see the warfare going on around us, much like a word processor, we don’t see what’s going on in the computer as we utilize it.

What Are We Up Against?
Ephesians 6:11-12
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

The Two Kingdoms
• The Northern Kingdom – Israel:
– 19 Kings reigned 250 years;
• 7 different dynasties;
– Assyrian Captivity, 721 B.C. (no return).
• The Southern Kingdom – Judah:
– 20 Kings reigned 370 years;
• 1 dynasty: The Davidic;
– Babylonian Captivity, 606 B.C. (70 years).
The Davidic Dynasty
• David is the standard of measure.
• God’s Faithfulness in preservation.
– Death of Azaziah, Joash preserved from the usurper’s sword by Jehosheba.
– Childless Hezekiah, under Assyrian siege.
– Blood curse upon Jeconiah bypassed.
Object Lessons Ignored
The history of man teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
— Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel
With the exceptions of Hezekiah and Josiah, the downgrade continued
in Judah.
--Hezekiah became the greatest since David and Solomon;
--Manasseh, the wickedest and longest reigning. The Ark of the Covenant is slipped out of the country to protect it, down to Pharaoh Necho in Egypt.
--The captivity of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem are emphatically ascribed to the sovereign hand of YHWH.

The Price of Compromise
• Reuben, Gad, ½ tribe of Manasseh had settled east of the Jordan;
• Reuben, Gad, ½ tribe of Manasseh are the first to go into captivity (1 Chr 5:25, 26);
• 13 years later the other tribes of the Northern Kingdom are deported;
• Assyrians appear to have been the most inventive in torture.
• Policy of replanting captives obliterate ethnic identities; therefore, no “return” from exile.

The 10 “Lost” Tribes?
• A Non-Biblical Myth:
• Levites emigrate to South (2 Chronicles 11);
– Faithful from all 12 migrate to the South;
– Idol worshipers migrate to the North;
• All freed by Persians in 536 B.C.
• All “12 Tribes” evident in post-exile records:
– Ezra, Nehemiah, et al.; New Testament: James, Peter, deals with all twelve tribes.

1st Chronicles: The House of YHWH
• Israel’s Main Genealogies (1 Chr 1 - 9)
– Adam to Jacob.
– Jacob to David.
– David to Zedekiah.
– Tribal Allotments.
• David’s Reign at Jerusalem (1 Chr 10 - 29)
– Anointed of the Lord.
– The Ark of the Lord.
– The Covenant of the Lord.
– The Temple of the Lord.
2nd Chronicles: The Temple vs. The Throne
• Solomon’s 40 Years’ Reign (2 Chronicles 1 - 9)
– Early Establishment.
– Building the Temple.
– All His Glory.
• Judah’s History to the Exile (2 Chronicles 10 - 36)
– The Division of the Kingdom.
– The 20 Kings of Judah.
– Deportation to Babylon.

Rephaim giants 25 Occurrences
Genesis 14:5
NAS: and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim
KJV: that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim,
INT: for and defeated the Rephaim Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim
Genesis 15:20
NAS: and the Perizzite and the Rephaim
KJV: and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
INT: and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim
Deuteronomy 2:11
NAS: regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites
KJV: also were accounted giants, as the Anakims;
INT: Rephaim regarded are also
Deuteronomy 2:20 That also was accounted a land of giants : giants  dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
NAS: of the Rephaim, [for] Rephaim formerly
KJV: of giants: giants dwelt
INT: regarded is also Rephaim lived formerly
Deuteronomy 2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
Anaq: 6062 "neck," a giant people around Hebron and in Philistia
NAS: as the land of the Rephaim, [for] Rephaim
KJV: a land of giants: giants
INT: as the land of the Rephaim regarded is also
Deuteronomy 3:11
NAS: of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold,
KJV: of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead
INT: was left of the remnant of the Rephaim Behold his bedstead
Deuteronomy 3:13
NAS: it is called the land of Rephaim.
KJV: was called the land of giants.
INT: is called the land of Rephaim
Joshua 12:4
NAS: one of the remnant of Rephaim, who lived
KJV: [which was] of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt
INT: of Bashan of the remnant of Rephaim lived Ashtaroth
Joshua 13:12
NAS: of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses
KJV: of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses
INT: was left of the remnant of the giants struck Moses
Joshua 15:8
NAS: of the valley of Rephaim toward the north.
KJV: of the valley of the giants northward:
INT: the end of the valley of Rephaim the north
Joshua 17:15
NAS: of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since
KJV: of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount
INT: the land of the Perizzites the Rephaim since narrow
Joshua 18:16
NAS: is in the valley of Rephaim northward;
KJV: [and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north,
INT: which the valley of Rephaim northward down
2 Samuel 5:18
NAS: themselves out in the valley of Rephaim.
KJV: themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
INT: and spread the valley of Rephaim
2 Samuel 5:22
NAS: themselves out in the valley of Rephaim.
KJV: themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
INT: and spread the valley of Rephaim
2 Samuel 21:16
KJV: which [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight
INT: who the descendants of the giant the weight spear
2 Samuel 21:18
KJV: which [was] of the sons of the giant.
INT: who the descendants of the giant
2 Samuel 21:20
KJV: and he also was born to the giant.
INT: he had been born to the giant
2 Samuel 21:22
KJV: were born to the giant in Gath,
INT: These were born to the giant Gath fell
2 Samuel 23:13
NAS: was camping in the valley of Rephaim.
KJV: pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
INT: was camping the valley of Rephaim
1 Chronicles 11:15
NAS: was camping in the valley of Rephaim.
KJV: encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
INT: was camping the valley of Rephaim
1 Chronicles 14:9
NAS: in the valley of Rephaim.
KJV: themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
INT: and made the valley of Rephaim
1 Chronicles 20:4
KJV: [that was] of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
INT: Sippai of the descendants of the giant were subdued
1 Chronicles 20:6
KJV: [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant.
INT: he was descended of the giant
1 Chronicles 20:8
KJV: were born unto the giant in Gath;
INT: These were descended the giant Gath fell
Isaiah 17:5
NAS: In the valley of Rephaim.
KJV: ears in the valley of Rephaim.
INT: ears the valley of Rephaim