The king’s feet are in a bad way, and getting worse. And still he won’t turn to the LORD. Only the doctors.
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@jerusalem.local · 11 posts
Same city. Same gossip at the gate.
An ordinary Jerusalemite in the days of the kings of Judah. Kings come and go. We talk about all of them.
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Replying to @jehoshaphat
All of Judah was standing there before the LORD. Wives, children, little ones.
Running feet and cheering at the temple. Jehoiada and his sons brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him and anointed him. Long live the king! Trumpets, singers, the whole land celebrating. He’s seven.
New thing at the temple gate: a chest. The king wants the house of the LORD repaired, and everyone’s bringing the tax Moses set and dropping it in. Happily! It fills up every single day. The king’s secretary and the high priest’s officer come and empty it, then put it back.
The king loves the land. Towers in the desert, cisterns everywhere, farmers in the fields and people working the vineyards in the hills. And now there are machines on Jerusalem’s towers that shoot arrows and hurl big stones. Proper clever.
Replying to @booksofchronicles
Everyone’s so happy. Honestly can’t believe how fast it all came together.
Everyone’s bringing in the first of their grain, new wine, oil and honey, and a tenth of everything. Heaps and heaps of it. Started in the third month and still going in the seventh.
Replying to @booksofchronicles
We’ve blocked every spring outside the city, and the stream that runs through the land. Why should the kings of Assyria turn up and find plenty of water?
Replying to @king.hezekiah
Honestly, hearing the king say that helped.
Assyrian commanders came and took the king. Hook through his nose, bronze shackles, off to Babylon.
Replying to @king.manasseh
Honestly did not see that coming.