Amos Continues, Friday, June 22, 2012

Today's reading is in Amos 7:10-17; II Kings 14:28-15:18; and II Chronicles 26:16.  Amaziah calls on Amos to stop his phrophesying.  He doesn't like what he hears.  Like a child covering his ears, Amaziah demands that the bad news stop.  Jeroboam II dies and his son Zechariah reigns for 6 months, doing evil as his father.  Shallum son of Jabesh assassinates him and becomes king (to fulfull a prophecy) and then he is assassinated by Menahem son of Gadi.  Jotham served as co-regent with his father Uzziah in Judah.  He was a good leader, but not righteous.