Day 166 - Monday after the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost
Read | Day 166 | Monday | June 15 | 2 Kings 2: 1-18, 19-25 2 Kings 4: 1-7, 8-37, 38-44 Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 | Click here Background | Like the books of Samuel, the books of Kings were originally one book but divided into two by the Greek translators of the original Hebrew. While 2 Samuel leaves off near the end of David’s reign, 1 and 2 Kings take us from the reign of Solomon to the catastrophic division of Israel into northern and southern factions. The northern kingdom was made up of ten tribes and often referred to in the Old Testament as Ephraim, the name of the largest tribe, or Israel. The southern kingdom was made up of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and was typically referred to as Judah. Even more unthinkable than the divided monarchy and the civil war that ensued was the fall of the northern kingdom to Assyria in 722 BC and then the fall and exile of the southern kingdom...