Chapter overview of 2 Chronicles
Chapter Summary of 2 Chronicles
Key Thought: Temple
Number of Chapters: 36
Key Verse: 2Ch 15:2
Christ seen as: God's true King.
Writer of the Book: Uncertain (Ezra)
Date: About 530 B. C.
Conclusion of the Book: Seeking and serving the Lord is the secret of a vital religion and a life of victory.
SUMMARY
CHAPTER ONE
Contents: Solomon's sacrifices at Gibeon. His vision and prayer and God's answer.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: Those who make this world their end come short of the other and are never satisfied with this. Those who make the other world their end and seek spiritual gifts, not only obtain these with full satisfaction, but enjoy much of this world on their way there.
Key Word: Prayer, 2Ch 1:7.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 1:11, 12.
Striking Facts: The Christian's real character appears in his choices and desires. "What wouldst thou have?" tries a man as much as "What wouldst thou DO?" 2Ch 1:7.
CHAPTER TWO
Contents: Preparation to build the temple.
Characters: God, Solomon, Hiram, King of Tyre.
Conclusion: (2Ch 2:4-6) It becomes us to go about every work for God with a due sense of our utter insufficiency for it and our incapacity in ourselves to do anything adequate to the divine perfections.
Key Word: Temple, 2Ch 2:4.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 2:6.
Striking Facts: The artificer was a Gentile, a good omen of uniting Jew and Gentile in the Gospel temple, which is Christ, 2Ch 2:14.
CHAPTER THREE
Contents: Temple begun. The materials and dimensions.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: God's Word prescribes all the details of how His work is to be carried on. Nothing can be added to or subtracted from God's perfect plans.
Key Word: Temple, 2Ch 3:1.
Striking Facts: The temple was built at Jerusalem (Ch 3:1). As it typified Christ it was fitly built there; since it was there He raised up the temple of His
body.
CHAPTER FOUR
Contents: Further details about the temple.
Characters: God, Hiram the artificer.
Conclusion: Everything in the temple directed the worshiper to the great propitiation. So should we in all our devotions keep the eye of faith upon Jesus Christ who was the fulfillment of all.
Key Word: Temple.
CHAPTER FIVE
Contents: The ark brought in. The glory fills the house.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: When God's work is carried out according to His revealed will and done in the spirit of unity with praise, He is certain to own it and to give a special manifestation of His presence.
Key Word: Glory, 2Ch 5:14.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 5:14.
Striking Facts: The ark was a type of Christ, and as such a token of the presence of God. The temple would be a desolate place indeed if Christ was not in it to glorify it.
CHAPTER SIX
Contents: Solomon's sermon and prayer.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: Those who set God before them and walk before Him with all their hearts, will find Him as good as His word and better. He will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them. (2Ch 6:14.)
Key Word: Dedication, 2Ch 6:12.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 6:14, 41.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 6:20. We may with confidence pray to God to be well pleased with us because we are in Jesus Christ in whom God is well pleased. He says not now of any house "this is my beloved place," so
there is but one safe shelter Christ.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Contents: Divine acceptance. Sacrifice and rejoicing. God appears to Solomon.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: The surest evidence 'of God's acceptance of our prayers is the descent of His holy fire upon us. The heart to which God manifests Himself is thereby owned as a living temple.
Key Word: Accepted, 2Ch 7:1, 12.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 7:1, 14.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 7:1. Christ, our sacrifice, was made sin and a curse for us and the sacrifice was consumed by the fire of God's wrath against sin that we might escape, and inherit His perfect righteousness.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Contents: The energy and fame of Solomon.
Characters: God, Pharaoh's daughter, Solomon, King of Tyre.
Conclusion: When our hearts are truly set on God's work, we find our Father in heaven ready to indulge us in many innocent desires and to give us success in our undertakings.
Key Word: Solomon's work, 2Ch 8:16.
CHAPTER NINE
Contents: Solomon and the queen of Sheba. His revenue and splendor.
Characters: God, Solomon, queen of Sheba.
Conclusion: Those who honor God, He will honor. The best way to get the credit of our endowments as well as the full enjoyment of them is to consecrate them to God and use them for Him.
Key Word: Fame, 2Ch 8:1.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 8:8.
Striking Facts: The luster of Solomon's kingdom was typical of the glory of the coming kingdom of Christ and a faint representation of His throne to be set up when He returns.
CHAPTER TEN
Contents: Accession and folly of Rehoboam. Division of the kingdom. Accession of Jeroboam over Israel.
Characters: God, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Ahijah, Hadoram.
Conclusion: Taking counsel of men who know not God is sure to mean serious blunders, and a rough answer never fails to bring division. Good words cost nothing and purchase great things.
Key Word: Foolish counsel, 2Ch 10:8.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Contents: Rehoboam returns to Jerusalem. Jeroboam rejects the worship of God.
Characters: God, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Ahijah, Shamaiah.
Conclusion: It is dangerous to undertake anything contrary to the will of God, and he is wise who, when he finds himself going contrary to God's plans, lets his own plans drop.
Key Word: Deterred, 2Ch 11:4.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 11:14. Christ's representatives should never allow a secular advantage to keep them among worshippers of the devil or in any place where they are in danger of making shipwreck of faith and conscience.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Contents: Rehoboam defeated by Shishak. Death of Rehoboam.
Characters: God, Rehoboam, Shishak, Shemaiah.
Conclusion: It becomes us, when we are under the rebukes of providence, to justify God (2Ch 12:6) and humble ourselves (2Ch 12:12), thereby we may be saved from total ruin, though we have to bear a part of God's judgment.
Key Word: Humbled, 2Ch 12:7.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 12:12.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Contents: War between Abijah and Jeroboam. Death of Jeroboam.
Characters: God, Abijah, Jeroboam.
Conclusion: Right may indeed go by the worst for a time, but it will prevail at last. The battle is ours, if God be for us.
Key Word: Reliance (on God), 2Ch 13:18.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 13:10, 12.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 13:18. The prayer of faith is the prevailing prayer and it is by faith in Christ's mediation that we overcome the world. 1Jn 5:4.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Contents: Death of Abijah. Accession of Asa. Asa's ' victory over Zerah.
Characters: God, Asa, Zerah.
Conclusion: He who has sought God in the day of peace and prosperity can with holy boldness cry to Him in the day of testing and God will have delight in giving him a great victory.
Key Word: Rest (on God) 2Ch 14:11.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 14:11.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 14:7. Those have rest indeed who have the peace of Christ, for He gives not as the world gives. Jn 14:27.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Contents: Warnings of Azariah. Reform under Asa.
Characters: God, Holy Spirit, Azariah, Asa, Oded, Maachah.
Conclusion: If we turn aside from God and His ordinances, He is not tied to us, but will certainly cease to act for us, when we will discover that present triumphs are no security to us. If we keep praying we will keep
prevailing.
Key Word: Reform 2Ch 15:8.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 15:2, 7, 15.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 15:8. Attachment to Christ means detachment from idols. 1Th 1:9.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Contents: War between Asa and Baasha. Asa's rebuke and death.
Characters: God, Asa, Hanani, Baasha, Ben-hadad.
Conclusion: God is much displeased when He is distrusted and when the arm of flesh is relied on more than His power and goodness. Since we have the Rock of Ages to rely upon, let us not lean upon broken reeds.
Key Word: Unbelief, 2Ch 16:7, 12.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 16:9.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 16:12. (Physicians) Egyptian healers whose methods were demonical, answering to spiritualism, Christian Science, New Thought, clairvoyancy, etc., of our own time. The help of physicians is good if we trust not to the physician but to Christ the Great Physician.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Contents: Accession of Jelioshaphat and his growing power.
Characters: God, Jehoshaphat.
Conclusion: True religion and obedience to God are the best friends to outward prosperity.
Key Word: Obedience, 2Ch 17:4.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 17:3, 4.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 17:3 (ways of David) Note that Jehoshaphat followed David as far as David followed God. Paul exhorts us to be followers of him, but only as far as he followed Christ. 1Cor 11:1.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Contents: Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahab. Ahab's lying prophets. Micaiah's true prophecy. Defeat and death of Ahab.
Characters: God, Jehoshaphat, Ahab, Micaiah, Zedekiah, king of Syria, lying spirits.
Conclusion: Some men's kindnesses are dangerous and their society infectious. There can be no surety of being in familiar converse with wicked people and yet getting no hurt by them.
Key Word: Ungodly alliance, 2Ch 18:1.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 18:13.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 18:21. One evil spirit can make use of 400 prophets to deceive those who will not receive the love of the truth. Beware of the (false prophets who speak in Satanic energy.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Contents: Jehu rebukes Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahab.
Characters: God, Jehoshaphat, Jehu, Amariah, Zebadiah.
Conclusion: Rebuke a wise man and he will take warning (Pr 9:8-9) and if he truly repents, he will be particularly concerned to recover those who have fallen into sin or been hardened in it by his example.
Key Word: Returned, 2Ch 19:4.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 19:7.
CHAPTER TWENTY
Contents: Jehoshaphat's prayer for deliverance and its answer. Invading armies stricken.
Characters: God, Holy Spirit, Jehoshaphat, Jahaziel, Ahaziah.
Conclusion: Faith takes God's bonds, knowing they are as good as ready money (2Ch 20:19). If the battle is God's and we are on God's side, we may be certain of shortly being made more than conquerors through Him that loved us. This is the victory, even our faith.
Key Word: Believing, 2Ch 20:20.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 20:9, 17
Striking Facts: 2Ch 20:26 The valley of Berachah, lit. "blessing" (modern Bible class name Baraca) was perpetuated for the encouragement of succeeding generations to trust in God and to remind us that our praises should be as oft repeated as our prayers.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Contents: Jehoram's wicked reign over Judah .and its accompanying disasters.
Characters: God, Jehoram, Elijah, Libnah.
Conclusion: Bad men bring judgment upon themselves and all about them. Wickedness makes men despicable even in the eyes of those who have little religion, and the name of the wicked shall rot.
(2Ch 21:19.)
Key Word: Evil, 2Ch 21:6.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 21:7.
Key Word: Evil, 2Ch 21:4.
Striking Facts: Three times the royal seed was extinct except for a single babe whom God preserved. 1. Moses, Heb. 11:23. 2. Joash. 3. Jesus, M 2:12, 16.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Contents: Joash becomes king of Judah. Execution of Athaliah. Revival through Jehoiada.
Characters: God, Jehoiada, Athaliah, Joash.
Conclusion: Some who are themselves most guilty are commonly most forward to cry "treason" at others. Evil doers will surely be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb, then shall the righteous shine
forth as the noonday.
Key Word: Execution, 2Ch 23:15.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 23:16.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 23:21. When the Lord Jesus is enthroned upon the heart and the usurper of the life put down, all is quiet and springs of joy are opened.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Contents: Reign of Joash. Temple repaired. Zechariah stoned. Judah defeated by Syrians.
Characters: God, Holy Spirit, Joash, Jehoiada, Zechariah, Zabad, Jehozabad, Amaziah.
Conclusion: It is easier to build temples than to be a temple of the Holy Spirit. Outward religious zeal is no substitute for inward spiritual vision, (2Ch 24:4, 24.)
Key Word: Repaired (temple), 2Ch 24:6; judgment, 2Ch 24:24.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 24:10, 20.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 24:24-26. If vengeance pursues men, the end of one trouble will be but the beginning of another.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Contents: Reign of Amaziah over Judah. War between Judah and Israel.
Characters: God, Amaziah, Joash, man of God, Obed-edom.
Conclusion: Trust in God means to be willing to venture the loss of anything for Him, knowing that He can more than make up any damage we sustain in obeying His commands. A firm belief in God's all-sufficiency to bear us out in our duty, will make His yoke easy and His burden light.
Key Word: Counsel despised, 2Ch 25:16.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 25:8.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 25:2. Amaziah is an illustration of many today, who live moral lives, yet not enemies to Christ. He that is not with Christ is counted against Him.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Contents: Accession of Uzziah. His successes and fame.
Characters: God, Uzziah, Zechariah, Jotham, Isaiah.
Conclusion: The world's smiles are the devil's darts and prosperity ruin as many as adversity. It is dangerous to be strong except in the Lord and the power of His might.
Key Word: Pride, 2Ch 26:16.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 26:5.
Summarized Bible
complete summary of the Old Testament
Keith L. Brooks
Published 1919
Key Thought: Temple
Number of Chapters: 36
Key Verse: 2Ch 15:2
Christ seen as: God's true King.
Writer of the Book: Uncertain (Ezra)
Date: About 530 B. C.
Conclusion of the Book: Seeking and serving the Lord is the secret of a vital religion and a life of victory.
SUMMARY
CHAPTER ONE
Contents: Solomon's sacrifices at Gibeon. His vision and prayer and God's answer.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: Those who make this world their end come short of the other and are never satisfied with this. Those who make the other world their end and seek spiritual gifts, not only obtain these with full satisfaction, but enjoy much of this world on their way there.
Key Word: Prayer, 2Ch 1:7.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 1:11, 12.
Striking Facts: The Christian's real character appears in his choices and desires. "What wouldst thou have?" tries a man as much as "What wouldst thou DO?" 2Ch 1:7.
CHAPTER TWO
Contents: Preparation to build the temple.
Characters: God, Solomon, Hiram, King of Tyre.
Conclusion: (2Ch 2:4-6) It becomes us to go about every work for God with a due sense of our utter insufficiency for it and our incapacity in ourselves to do anything adequate to the divine perfections.
Key Word: Temple, 2Ch 2:4.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 2:6.
Striking Facts: The artificer was a Gentile, a good omen of uniting Jew and Gentile in the Gospel temple, which is Christ, 2Ch 2:14.
CHAPTER THREE
Contents: Temple begun. The materials and dimensions.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: God's Word prescribes all the details of how His work is to be carried on. Nothing can be added to or subtracted from God's perfect plans.
Key Word: Temple, 2Ch 3:1.
Striking Facts: The temple was built at Jerusalem (Ch 3:1). As it typified Christ it was fitly built there; since it was there He raised up the temple of His
body.
CHAPTER FOUR
Contents: Further details about the temple.
Characters: God, Hiram the artificer.
Conclusion: Everything in the temple directed the worshiper to the great propitiation. So should we in all our devotions keep the eye of faith upon Jesus Christ who was the fulfillment of all.
Key Word: Temple.
CHAPTER FIVE
Contents: The ark brought in. The glory fills the house.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: When God's work is carried out according to His revealed will and done in the spirit of unity with praise, He is certain to own it and to give a special manifestation of His presence.
Key Word: Glory, 2Ch 5:14.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 5:14.
Striking Facts: The ark was a type of Christ, and as such a token of the presence of God. The temple would be a desolate place indeed if Christ was not in it to glorify it.
CHAPTER SIX
Contents: Solomon's sermon and prayer.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: Those who set God before them and walk before Him with all their hearts, will find Him as good as His word and better. He will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them. (2Ch 6:14.)
Key Word: Dedication, 2Ch 6:12.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 6:14, 41.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 6:20. We may with confidence pray to God to be well pleased with us because we are in Jesus Christ in whom God is well pleased. He says not now of any house "this is my beloved place," so
there is but one safe shelter Christ.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Contents: Divine acceptance. Sacrifice and rejoicing. God appears to Solomon.
Characters: God, Solomon.
Conclusion: The surest evidence 'of God's acceptance of our prayers is the descent of His holy fire upon us. The heart to which God manifests Himself is thereby owned as a living temple.
Key Word: Accepted, 2Ch 7:1, 12.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 7:1, 14.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 7:1. Christ, our sacrifice, was made sin and a curse for us and the sacrifice was consumed by the fire of God's wrath against sin that we might escape, and inherit His perfect righteousness.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Contents: The energy and fame of Solomon.
Characters: God, Pharaoh's daughter, Solomon, King of Tyre.
Conclusion: When our hearts are truly set on God's work, we find our Father in heaven ready to indulge us in many innocent desires and to give us success in our undertakings.
Key Word: Solomon's work, 2Ch 8:16.
CHAPTER NINE
Contents: Solomon and the queen of Sheba. His revenue and splendor.
Characters: God, Solomon, queen of Sheba.
Conclusion: Those who honor God, He will honor. The best way to get the credit of our endowments as well as the full enjoyment of them is to consecrate them to God and use them for Him.
Key Word: Fame, 2Ch 8:1.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 8:8.
Striking Facts: The luster of Solomon's kingdom was typical of the glory of the coming kingdom of Christ and a faint representation of His throne to be set up when He returns.
CHAPTER TEN
Contents: Accession and folly of Rehoboam. Division of the kingdom. Accession of Jeroboam over Israel.
Characters: God, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Ahijah, Hadoram.
Conclusion: Taking counsel of men who know not God is sure to mean serious blunders, and a rough answer never fails to bring division. Good words cost nothing and purchase great things.
Key Word: Foolish counsel, 2Ch 10:8.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Contents: Rehoboam returns to Jerusalem. Jeroboam rejects the worship of God.
Characters: God, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Ahijah, Shamaiah.
Conclusion: It is dangerous to undertake anything contrary to the will of God, and he is wise who, when he finds himself going contrary to God's plans, lets his own plans drop.
Key Word: Deterred, 2Ch 11:4.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 11:14. Christ's representatives should never allow a secular advantage to keep them among worshippers of the devil or in any place where they are in danger of making shipwreck of faith and conscience.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Contents: Rehoboam defeated by Shishak. Death of Rehoboam.
Characters: God, Rehoboam, Shishak, Shemaiah.
Conclusion: It becomes us, when we are under the rebukes of providence, to justify God (2Ch 12:6) and humble ourselves (2Ch 12:12), thereby we may be saved from total ruin, though we have to bear a part of God's judgment.
Key Word: Humbled, 2Ch 12:7.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 12:12.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Contents: War between Abijah and Jeroboam. Death of Jeroboam.
Characters: God, Abijah, Jeroboam.
Conclusion: Right may indeed go by the worst for a time, but it will prevail at last. The battle is ours, if God be for us.
Key Word: Reliance (on God), 2Ch 13:18.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 13:10, 12.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 13:18. The prayer of faith is the prevailing prayer and it is by faith in Christ's mediation that we overcome the world. 1Jn 5:4.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Contents: Death of Abijah. Accession of Asa. Asa's ' victory over Zerah.
Characters: God, Asa, Zerah.
Conclusion: He who has sought God in the day of peace and prosperity can with holy boldness cry to Him in the day of testing and God will have delight in giving him a great victory.
Key Word: Rest (on God) 2Ch 14:11.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 14:11.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 14:7. Those have rest indeed who have the peace of Christ, for He gives not as the world gives. Jn 14:27.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Contents: Warnings of Azariah. Reform under Asa.
Characters: God, Holy Spirit, Azariah, Asa, Oded, Maachah.
Conclusion: If we turn aside from God and His ordinances, He is not tied to us, but will certainly cease to act for us, when we will discover that present triumphs are no security to us. If we keep praying we will keep
prevailing.
Key Word: Reform 2Ch 15:8.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 15:2, 7, 15.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 15:8. Attachment to Christ means detachment from idols. 1Th 1:9.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Contents: War between Asa and Baasha. Asa's rebuke and death.
Characters: God, Asa, Hanani, Baasha, Ben-hadad.
Conclusion: God is much displeased when He is distrusted and when the arm of flesh is relied on more than His power and goodness. Since we have the Rock of Ages to rely upon, let us not lean upon broken reeds.
Key Word: Unbelief, 2Ch 16:7, 12.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 16:9.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 16:12. (Physicians) Egyptian healers whose methods were demonical, answering to spiritualism, Christian Science, New Thought, clairvoyancy, etc., of our own time. The help of physicians is good if we trust not to the physician but to Christ the Great Physician.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Contents: Accession of Jelioshaphat and his growing power.
Characters: God, Jehoshaphat.
Conclusion: True religion and obedience to God are the best friends to outward prosperity.
Key Word: Obedience, 2Ch 17:4.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 17:3, 4.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 17:3 (ways of David) Note that Jehoshaphat followed David as far as David followed God. Paul exhorts us to be followers of him, but only as far as he followed Christ. 1Cor 11:1.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Contents: Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahab. Ahab's lying prophets. Micaiah's true prophecy. Defeat and death of Ahab.
Characters: God, Jehoshaphat, Ahab, Micaiah, Zedekiah, king of Syria, lying spirits.
Conclusion: Some men's kindnesses are dangerous and their society infectious. There can be no surety of being in familiar converse with wicked people and yet getting no hurt by them.
Key Word: Ungodly alliance, 2Ch 18:1.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 18:13.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 18:21. One evil spirit can make use of 400 prophets to deceive those who will not receive the love of the truth. Beware of the (false prophets who speak in Satanic energy.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Contents: Jehu rebukes Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahab.
Characters: God, Jehoshaphat, Jehu, Amariah, Zebadiah.
Conclusion: Rebuke a wise man and he will take warning (Pr 9:8-9) and if he truly repents, he will be particularly concerned to recover those who have fallen into sin or been hardened in it by his example.
Key Word: Returned, 2Ch 19:4.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 19:7.
CHAPTER TWENTY
Contents: Jehoshaphat's prayer for deliverance and its answer. Invading armies stricken.
Characters: God, Holy Spirit, Jehoshaphat, Jahaziel, Ahaziah.
Conclusion: Faith takes God's bonds, knowing they are as good as ready money (2Ch 20:19). If the battle is God's and we are on God's side, we may be certain of shortly being made more than conquerors through Him that loved us. This is the victory, even our faith.
Key Word: Believing, 2Ch 20:20.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 20:9, 17
Striking Facts: 2Ch 20:26 The valley of Berachah, lit. "blessing" (modern Bible class name Baraca) was perpetuated for the encouragement of succeeding generations to trust in God and to remind us that our praises should be as oft repeated as our prayers.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Contents: Jehoram's wicked reign over Judah .and its accompanying disasters.
Characters: God, Jehoram, Elijah, Libnah.
Conclusion: Bad men bring judgment upon themselves and all about them. Wickedness makes men despicable even in the eyes of those who have little religion, and the name of the wicked shall rot.
(2Ch 21:19.)
Key Word: Evil, 2Ch 21:6.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 21:7.
Key Word: Evil, 2Ch 21:4.
Striking Facts: Three times the royal seed was extinct except for a single babe whom God preserved. 1. Moses, Heb. 11:23. 2. Joash. 3. Jesus, M 2:12, 16.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Contents: Joash becomes king of Judah. Execution of Athaliah. Revival through Jehoiada.
Characters: God, Jehoiada, Athaliah, Joash.
Conclusion: Some who are themselves most guilty are commonly most forward to cry "treason" at others. Evil doers will surely be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb, then shall the righteous shine
forth as the noonday.
Key Word: Execution, 2Ch 23:15.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 23:16.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 23:21. When the Lord Jesus is enthroned upon the heart and the usurper of the life put down, all is quiet and springs of joy are opened.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Contents: Reign of Joash. Temple repaired. Zechariah stoned. Judah defeated by Syrians.
Characters: God, Holy Spirit, Joash, Jehoiada, Zechariah, Zabad, Jehozabad, Amaziah.
Conclusion: It is easier to build temples than to be a temple of the Holy Spirit. Outward religious zeal is no substitute for inward spiritual vision, (2Ch 24:4, 24.)
Key Word: Repaired (temple), 2Ch 24:6; judgment, 2Ch 24:24.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 24:10, 20.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 24:24-26. If vengeance pursues men, the end of one trouble will be but the beginning of another.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Contents: Reign of Amaziah over Judah. War between Judah and Israel.
Characters: God, Amaziah, Joash, man of God, Obed-edom.
Conclusion: Trust in God means to be willing to venture the loss of anything for Him, knowing that He can more than make up any damage we sustain in obeying His commands. A firm belief in God's all-sufficiency to bear us out in our duty, will make His yoke easy and His burden light.
Key Word: Counsel despised, 2Ch 25:16.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 25:8.
Striking Facts: 2Ch 25:2. Amaziah is an illustration of many today, who live moral lives, yet not enemies to Christ. He that is not with Christ is counted against Him.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Contents: Accession of Uzziah. His successes and fame.
Characters: God, Uzziah, Zechariah, Jotham, Isaiah.
Conclusion: The world's smiles are the devil's darts and prosperity ruin as many as adversity. It is dangerous to be strong except in the Lord and the power of His might.
Key Word: Pride, 2Ch 26:16.
Strong Verses: 2Ch 26:5.
Summarized Bible
complete summary of the Old Testament
Keith L. Brooks
Published 1919