Sunday School Lesson
Sunday Morning Bible Class August 30, 2026
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Theme:
I & II Chronicles
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King Josiah
II Chronicles 34
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Seeking The Lord
1) Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 2) And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. 3) For in the eighth year of his reign, whlie he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high laces, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images. 4) They broke down the alters of the Baals in his presence, and the incense alters which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces and made dust of them and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5) He also burned the bones of the priests on their alters, and cleaned Judah and Jerusalem. 6) And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with axes. 7) When he had broken down the alters and the wooden images, had beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense alters throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
II Chronicles 34:1-7
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Finding The Book of The Law
8) In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah, the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God. 9) When they to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the Remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to Jerusalem. 10) Then they put it in the hand of the foreman who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; an they gave it to the workmen who worked in the house of the Lord, to repair and restore the house. 11) they gave it to the craftsmen and builders to buy hewn stone and timber for beams, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. 12) And the men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jaheth and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of Kohathites, to supervise. Others of the Levites, all of whom were skillful with instruments of music, 13) were over the burden bearers and were overseers of all who did work in any kind of service. and some of the Levites were scribes, officers and gatekeepers. 14) Now when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah found the Book of the Law of of the Lord given by Moses. 15) Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan. 16) So Shaphan carried the book to the king, bringing the king word, saying, "All that was committed to your servants they are doing. 17) And they have gathered the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen." 18) Then Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, "Hilkiah has given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the king. 19) Thus it happened, when the king heard the words of the Law, that he tore his clothes. 20) Then the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying, 21) "Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for those who are left in Israel and Judahconcerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book." 22) So Hilkiah and those the king had appointed went toHuldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the second Quarter.) And they spoke to her to that effect. 23) Then she answered them, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, 'Tell the men who sent you to Me, 24) "Thus says says the Lord: 'Behold, I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in this book which they have read before the king of Judah, 25) 'Because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath will be poured out on this place, and not be quenched.' " ' 26) But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, in this manner you shall speak to him, 'Thus says the Lord God of Israel: "Concerning the words which you have heard--- 27) "because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," says the Lord. 28) "Surely I will gathers you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave to your grave in peace; and your eyes will not see all the calamity I will bring on this place and its inhabitants." ' " So they brought back word to the king.
II Chronicles 34:8-28
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A Legacy
18) Now the rest of the acts of Manassah, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. 19) Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of Hozai. 20) So Manassah rested with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.
II Chronicles 33:18-20
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II Timothy 2:15: "Be dillgent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
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