May 2026

READ: 2 Kin. 25:1–30: … Nebuchadnezzar … and all his army … besieged the city … famine … they captured the king … slaughtered … burned the house of the LORD … over the people who remained … he appointed Gedaliah … Ishmael … struck down Gedaliah … they went to Egypt … Jehoiachin … was […]

READ: 2 Kin. 23:31–24:20: Jehoahaz … did what was evil … Pharaoh put him in prison … Jehoiakim … did what was evil … Nebuchadnezzar … bands of the Chaldeans … Jehoiachin … did what was evil … Nebuchadnezzar … took him captive … to Babylon … Zedekiah … did what was evil … the wrath

READ: 2 Kin. 23:1–30: … the king … read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant … and all the people took a stand for the covenant … he burned everything outside Jerusalem … removed the idolatrous priests … broke down the high places … no such Passover had been held

READ: 2 Kin. 22:1–20: … he did not turn aside to the right or to the left … God-fearing kings are rare, but of Josiah, after Hezekiah, an entirely positive judgment is given without reservation: “He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the way of his father David;

READ: 2 Kin. 21:1–26: … Manasseh … abominations … high places … Baal … all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of the LORD … soothsayers … idols … very much innocent blood … Amon … idols … forsook the LORD … Manasseh receives the title of king already at twelve years

READ: 2 Kin. 20:1–21: … you shall die … he said … O LORD, remember now that I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart … I have heard your prayer … I will heal you … let the shadow go back ten steps … Babylon … envoys with letters and a

READ: 2 Kin. 19:1–37: … do not be afraid … then Hezekiah spread that letter before the face of the LORD … Incline, O LORD, Your ear … deliver us from his hand … he shall not come into this city … it happened … that the angel of the LORD struck one hundred and eighty-five

READ: 2 Kin. 18:1–37: … he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done. He removed the high places … cut down the sacred pillars … he trusted in the LORD God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the

READ: 2 Kin. 17:1–41: The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam … they did not depart from them … until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets … so Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it

READ: 2 Kin. 16:1–26: … Ahaz … walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he even made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations … While it goes from bad to worse in Israel, the two-tribe kingdom of Judah is still to some extent faithful to the