Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mercy -- Part 1\n 2 Chronicles 28:8\n 08\/26\/2024\n\n\n 8 The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their\n relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also\n took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to\n Samaria. (ESV)\n\n This week's Old Testament lesson comes from the book of\n Second Chronicles where the author shows both the sin of the\n southern kingdom of Judah, the desire for revenge, and the mercy\n which comes as we realize and confess our own sin. The theme of\n this week is built on God's mercy, both in the Old Testament\n lesson and in the parable of the Good Samaritan.\n\n Mercy is the compassionate treatment of those who are in\n distress, especially when it is within the ability of the one who\n is merciful to bring harm. It encompasses also forgiveness and\n expressions of love.\n\n After the death of King Solomon, the Jewish kingdom split\n into Israel in the north and Judah in the south. As in any\n divided nation, there was animosity and war between the two\n groups. Our text speaks of a defeat of Judah by Israel around\n 740 years before the birth of Jesus. ``The men of Israel took\n captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters.\n They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to\n Samaria.''\n\n In war, in taking captive almost a quarter million people,\n the northern kingdom was not showing mercy. Their plan was to\n make slaves of these captives from Judah, the same way any\n foreign conqueror would enslave a defeated nation. But, these\n people were not the spoils of war, but descendants of Abraham,\n Isaac, and Jacob, cousins and relatives of the people of the\n north.\n\n This week we will look at the mercy shown to these captives,\n learning from their story how we also show mercy to others.\n\n May our Lord grant us the grace to hear His Word and to\n learn of His love. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 26, 2024 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}