{"id":2839,"date":"2025-01-24T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2025-01-24T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:06:07","slug":"january-26-2025-2-kings-14-15-jeroboam-ii-and-the-treacherous-successors-to-his-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"January 26, 2025 &#8211; 2 Kings 14-15 &#8211; Jeroboam II and the Treacherous Successors to His Reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeroboam II reigned in the northern kingdom of Israel for 41 years. He stopped the raids by the Syrians and restored the country&#8217;s borders. Despite this, he was an evil, idolatrous king, and was followed by a series of murderers and usurpers of the throne. The prophets Hosea and Amos, who were his contemporaries, decry the declining moral character of society during these years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/2Kings14_15_Notes.pdf\">Notes on 2 Kings 14:23 &#8211; 15:8-31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeroboam II reigned in the northern kingdom of Israel for 41 years. He stopped the raids by the Syrians and restored the country&#8217;s borders. Despite this, he was an evil, idolatrous king, and was followed by a series of murderers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2839\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}