TODAY'S BIBLE TWEET

BIBLE TEXT: “And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son. Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?” (2 Kings 1:17b-18 KJV)

BIBLE TWEET: What a pitiful legacy Ahaziah left for posterity. He lost the tribute of Moab, Israeli troops through ill-gotten attempts to arrest God’s prophet, and died as an infamous idolater, from injuries suffered from falling through the trellis of his own balcony.

BIBLE TAKEAWAY: Since Ahaziah’s brief reign abruptly ended with him dying without an heir, his throne passed to his brother Jehoram, another son of the wicked King Ahab, who reigned over Israel, the northern kingdom, at the same time that another Jehoram, the son of the righteous King Jehoshaphat, reigned over Judah, the southern kingdom.