{"id":1714,"date":"2012-06-04T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2012-06-05T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T13:01:45","slug":"2-chronicles-16-always-the-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"(2 Chronicles 16) Always the case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: \u201cBecause you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.\u00a0Were the Ethiopians and the Lubim not a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the Lord, He delivered them into your hand.\u00a0For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even in this stern rebuke by the prophet Hanani, there is an implied word of encouragement.\u00a0 This is always the case in Scripture.\u00a0 Seek the Lord, turn to the Lord, forget those things which are behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: \u201cBecause you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.\u00a0Were the Ethiopians and the Lubim not a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Chronicles 16) Always the case&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}