I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on 2 Kings 15-16.

    For those of you actually reading the scripture passage, you may not that I skipped back a couple of chapters. That is because I accidentally skipped these two chapters on May 4. In today’s passage the reigns of five kings of Israel are recounted. Four of those kings lost power due to a coup. We are told that all five of these kings did what was evil in the sight of God. The sins which these kings led their people into contributed to the instability of the government and the instability of the government caused the people to sin. This is something we see throughout history. When a people stop living morally upright lives it results in government instability. As the government becomes more unstable, people are more inclined to live morally depraved lives.