We begin with an examination of the title “man of God” which leads us to a brief study through the visitation of Manoah and his wife by the angel of the Lord and the prophecy of Samson’s birth, and how the visit can be contrasted with the serpent’s deception of Eve in the Garden.

Discover the difficulty one can have keeping track of the pronouns “he” and “him” in the bible, and how it bears on the solution to the age discrepancy of Jehoiachin between Kings and Chronicles We’ll get the biblical origins of the concept of being “more than fair”, or giving “more than enough.”

We then get to the reign of Josiah, and how he did everything he could according to the Law of Moses , and walking in the way of David to purge Judah of her sins and turn her heart back to Jehovah. But without the power of God’s Holy Spirit Josiah’s good works would fail to accomplish the redemption of Israel, pointing to the fact that God would have to do that himself!

We note how Josiah kept a passover festival more perfectly than even David or Solomon! yet God’s decision to cast Judah into captivity could not be overcome, driving home one of the great truths of the whole Bible: God will do for man, pictured here by Israel, what man cannot do for himself: he rescues them, avenges them, destroys their oppressors, redeems & justifies them, and then blesses them with the kingdom of righteousness over the whole earth.

After Josiah, and the brief reign of Jehoahaz, we get to Jehoiakim and the age discrepancy recorded in II Chronicles regarding Jehoiachin. Having determined that a scribal error is not plausible we offer two solutions based on the grammatical references of the pronoun “him”, and another based upon the possibility of a co-regency, declared by the king of Egypt as the subjugation of, and eventual captivity of Judah swept over the land.

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