Two Kingdoms in Contrast

So Asa rebuilds Judah and re-builds the peoples faith in God. While Nadabs is having Israel becoming more and more corrupt before his assassinations by Baasha who later becomes an idol worshiping king. Unlike Baasha, Asa kept Judah from War for 35 years.. However at one point the went to the King Aram to make a treaty. Hanani told Asa what he did was not of the Lord and that he should have relied on God not another man. Well, he becomes angry and puts the seer in jail.

In Israel, Jehu who is the son of Hanani, warns Baasha that he is far from God and tells him that the dogs and birds will eat of him. Then Baasha dies. Elah his son, succeeds him as king for only 2 years (I think by the way it reads) and is assassinated. Then Zirmri becomes King for a week. This one week reign ended with the killing of all Baashas family and the suicide of Zimri.
Now Omri becomes kings. Let me stop here and mention that it has now been 31 years that Asa has been king in Judah. Israel is really having problems with their kings. Mainly because they are so far removed from God. Of course Omri dies and Ahab takes over the Israel Kingdom./ Now this is the worst king of all. He provoked the Lord to anger. He worshiped Baal!

At 41 years as king, Asa contracts some sort of foot disorder and instead of going to God for help he only went to men…physicians to help him. Which resulted in his death. Jehoshaphat, his son, became the next king of Judah. He was a good man. He finished removing all idol form Judah and kept the people on track to worship God. The Lord was with him. He has several officials start to teach about the law of God in the city. Because of this the surrounding cities became scared of Jehoshaphat. Therefore he kept peace with Israelis king.