"No One Left Behind" - that is a universal creed that is shared by every firefighter, soldier and law enforcement person in America. Whenever they go out on a mission to fight fire, to fight crime or to fire an enemy of our nation, they are determined that when it comes to their own there will be "No One Left Behind." I don't know where this motto originated, but it could have come from the story we will study today.

The Kingdom of David, which then was passed on to his son, Solomon, was known as the Kingdom of Israel. After Solomon died, there was a civil war, in effect, and the kingdom was divided into the southern kingdom, known as Judah, and the northern kingdom, known as Israel. The northern kingdom of Israel, which we are reading about today, was under siege by the Syrian army. The …