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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Kings 25:18-30
Thus these two books of the Kings come to their end (they comprise only one book in the original Hebrew). They open up with the glory of the king of Israel, and finish with the glory of the king of Babylon. They begin with the building of the temple; they end with the picture of its destruction. At the commencement, the first successor of David has ascended the throne at Jerusalem (1 Kings 1). At the end, his last descendant has been incarcerated in a prison at Babylon. Between the start and the close, in chapter after chapter, we have witnessed the sorrowful decline. And such is the case with everything that is entrusted to man! In very truth, his heart is deceitful and incurable. And Ezekiel, whose voice was heard during this period of captivity, confirms it in his heart-rending exclamation: "How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things!" (Ezekiel 16:30).
It is some consolation to see a tiny gleam of restoration breaking through in these last verses. God shows us that His work is not finished. The last word will be His, when after the failure of all these kings, Christ, the Son of David, will appear, the true King of Israel.
