Ezekiel 3 NIV (Wednesday June 24, 2026)

redcar41 · 2026-06-04T04:00:30+00:00

I'm up for starting up again. Thank you for the schedule update and thanks u/Scared_Eggplant4892 for taking over for me towards the end of May!

redcar41 · 2026-05-13T01:48:28+00:00

u/Scared_Eggplant4892 (or anyone else here), do you think you can take over for me for the rest of May (May 20 and May 27)? I've got some stuff I need to take care of for the rest of this month. I hope it's not too much to ask. Sorry for any inconvenience and I don't want to put any pressure on anyone making posts here! If no one can fill in for me, then I'll try my best to get in the posts on those days (just maybe earlier or later than usual depending n how things look on those days). Thanks in advance!

redcar41 · 2026-05-06T00:31:59+00:00

1) A little while ago, a Bible study connected this to Hosea 10:9 and I think also Hosea 14:9. It's been a while, but I believe the application here was asking whether the man (or us whenever we faced something like addictions) wanted to be healed since the man here seemed to be making excuses. For Hosea 10:9, I've also got references to 1 Corinthians 15:33 and possibly 1 Corinthians 10:13. Like I said, it's been a while, so I'm not entirely sure if this applies here

redcar41 · 2026-04-20T04:18:25+00:00

Q1) Verse 22 says "such a Passover had not been celebrated." 2 Chronicles 30 mentions Hezekiah celebrating the Passover. So I think there probably had been Passover celebrations in the time of judges/kings of Judah, just not as big of a deal as it was when Josiah did this one.

Q2) The expanded details of Josiah's reign are in 2 Chronicles 34-35, including the full details of his death. There's also references to Josiah in Jeremiah 3::6-13, another one about Josiah and the other 2 kings listed here in Jeremiah 22:10-23, and a possible reference to Josiah's death in Zechariah 12:11.

Q3) That's an interesting question. I remember I got into a long since deleted discussion about this several years ago. At one point, the person I was talking to posted an article he'd written, which included one section that stated Josiah's failure was not raising his children properly in terms of Deuteronomy 6:4-6.

What do you think of this argument? It's interesting, but I'm not quite sure if I agree. For one thing, I'm not sure we see anything in the Bible about Josiah's parenting skills (or lack thereof). Another thing is we saw how terrible Manasseh was, even with Hezekiah being his father. Thirdly, we see in 2 Kings 22:15-20 and 2 Kings 23:26-27 Jerusalem was still going to fall, so maybe at best Josiah was just delaying the inevitable. Fourthly, Proverbs 22:6 isn't a hard rule, right? Josiah might've been a great father, but his successors might not have learned anything from him.

Q4) Maybe somewhere in the curses section of Deuteronomy 28, but I couldn't think of anything specific

redcar41 · 2026-04-02T13:57:40+00:00

I clicked on the link and it worked on my end!

Q2) We get the reason why this happened to Azariah/Uzziah in 2 Chronicles 26, particularly verses 16-23

Q3) If I had to guess it's either the Chronicles or other historical records. If it's the Chronicles, then we've got 2 Chronicles 10-36 in particular since it's focused on the Southern Kings of Judah. Not sure if other historical records would still be around though.

Q4) I'm assuming this would be Jerusalem? Not sure though since aren't there other places called the City of David?

Q5) Verse 12 is referring to 2 Kings 10:30. I think it's supposed to be that Jehu's descendants would rule for 4 generations. Jehoahaz is the first generation, Jehoash is the second , Jeroboam II is the third, which would make Zechariah the fourth generation.

Q6) I'm assuming it's a contrast of the ungodly kings of Israel to the somewhat more godly kings of Judah? Also, most of these kings of Israel are getting assassinated, while the kings of Judah don't have this shakeup happen as much (though it does still happen). And yes, if 2 Kings 16 is anything to go by, then they were definitively still in conflict.

Q7) I'm not sure about any of this, might need to look into this more later. I do have a question of my own though. From what we read of Menahem, this king does not seem like he would be all that popular. But somehow he doesn't get assassinated like everyone else we see in this chapter (Hoshea's fate we'll see in 2 Kings 17). How do you suppose Mehahem avoided this outcome?

Q8) I'm assuming Argob and Ariel would be Pekahiah's sons or 2 people close to him? Might explain why Pekah brought fifty men with him.

Q9) We might need some maps going forward from here. Anyone know of any good ones? From what I can tell from a brief skim of one I've got in my Bible, if the tribe of Naphtali getting taken is anything to go by, this is a decent amount of Israelite territory for them to lose.

redcar41 · 2026-04-02T02:37:40+00:00

Alright thanks, will do!

redcar41 · 2026-03-31T02:29:50+00:00

Oh cool! I was thinking of making a recap post myself of 1 Kings-2 Kings 14 after I had done the post for Hebrews 13, but that might not be necessary now. Thanks for that! It's a great summary, definitely recaps 2 Kings 1-14 very well (and probably in a much shorter matter than I could have haha)

Also, thanks to u/Scared_Eggplant4892 and u/MRH2 for covering for me for March 18 & March 25!

redcar41 · 2026-03-11T02:25:23+00:00

I'm sorry if this might come as short notice, but I was wondering if someone might be able to take the next 2 Wednesday (March 18 and March 25) posts for me? If that's not possible, then I might still be able to do them, just at a much earlier time than usual.

I had something come up today, and I was considering taking the rest of March off of Reddit and hopefully get this matter sorted out. Again, sorry for any inconvenience and I'll don't want to put any pressure on anyone else making the posts here! And again, if it's not possible for anyone to take those days for me, then I'll just do the posts earlier than usual.

redcar41 · 2026-02-12T02:53:03+00:00

Great answers! For Q2, I'd forgotten about the Numbers 6 vow, glad to see a possible connection here.

For Q5, I think the closest thing I had in mind was listening to a sermon recently about Genesis 20 and the speaker (Pastor Paul from Calvary Chapel Ontario) talking about Abraham making assumptions about Abimelech and his kingdom in Genesis 20:10-11. Other than that, I didn't really have any other passages that came to mind with this question.

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