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759 BC Peka kills Pekahiah and grabs the throne of the Northern Kingdom. Genealogies are given of tribes: Simeon, Issachar, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim and Asher. In the Southern Kingdom, God calls Isaiah, of an influential family, to ministry and God gives him a vision of angels who cleanse him of sin. The chronicler also records the genealogy of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
Note 1 (1 Chronicles 4:24): The tribe of Simeon which had been given land south of Judah (Joshua 19) seems to have scattered as prophesied by Jacob (Genesis 49:7) – a few around Mt. Seir, and others to the north (2 Chronicles 15:9). Simeon is counted as part of the Northern Kingdom but after the Jeroboam/Reoboam split the geographical identity of all the tribes becomes confused as people migrated to their chosen form of worship: either temple worship in Judah or idolatry in the Northern Kingdom.
Note 2: Isaiah was the son of an upper-class family that moved in royal circles, so much of his advice and many of his warnings were primarily for this ruling class.
About this Plan
In the beginning was the Word … but what came next? This plan is for anyone who wants a better understanding of the Bible. It provides a chronological reading program that endeavors to place all biblical passages in their date order. Part Six of this twelve-part one-year reading plan is titled ‘The Nation Rebels, Divides and Declines, 975 BC–730 BC’.
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