But God!

  

2 Kings 9:21-29

 

September 16, 2021

 

 

Joram said, “Make ready.” And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.   And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”  Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, “Treachery, O Ahaziah!”   And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between the shoulders so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.   Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord made this pronouncement against him:   ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the Lord—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now, therefore, take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”

When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him also.” And they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.   His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.

In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.

As one reflects on how God sent a young son of a prophet to anoint Jehu as king of Israel and how God’s word was carried out with Ahab's son Joram as to the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite.  I am sure you recall how Ahab want to buy the land from Naboth, but that, it was an inheritance he would not sell and how Jezebel told lie about Naboth using evil men to lie and say he had said things against God and the king.  The people took him and his sons and stone them, and Ahab took his land.  But God, yes God had the last word, and that is just as true today, so wait on the Lord, He alone is your refuge.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice