2 KINGS

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Updated 12/2023

CHAPTER 1

1. Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room.
2. Ahaziah sent men to inqire of Baal-Zebub (the god of Ekron)
3. Elijah the prophet was sent to Ahaziah with the message he would die.
4. a. Fire came down from heaven and killed the men Ahaziah sent to Elijah. b. The second group was also killed by fire. c. The third group was not killed because they feared for their lives and begged Elijah to spare them.

CHAPTER 2

1. Elijah was to be taken to heaven in a whirlwind.
2. The Jordan river divided into two when struck by Elijah, and he and Elisha crossed over on dry ground.
3. a. Elisha requested a double portion of Elijah's Spirit. b. If he saw Elijah taken up in the whirlwind, it would be granted to Him.
4. a. Elisha divided the Jordan as Elijah had done. b. Elisha healed the water at Jericho.
5. Forty-two youths from the city were mauled and killed by two female bears

CHAPTER 3

1. Jehoram, his brother, a son of Ahab became king since Ahaziah had no son of his own.
2. Moab rebelled against Israel.
3. Jehoram called upon Jehoshaphat, king of Judah to help him fight the Moabites.
4. Elisha provided water for the men and their animals.
5. The king of Moab offered his eldest son as a burnt offering on the wall of the city. This disgusted Israel and they turned back.

CHAPTER 4

1. The widow’s two sons were to become slaves to her dead husband's creditor for repayment of debt.
2. Elisha produced enough jars of oil from her one jar to fill up several empty jars. This was used to pay the debt owed by her husband with enough left over for them to live on.
3. The notable woman and her husband made a room for Elisha in their home so he would have a comfortable place to stay each time he came to their city.
4. Elisha prophesied the woman and man would have a son.
5. The son became sick one day and died.
6. Elisha lay on the dead son and brought him back to life.
7. One of the sons of the prophets had gathered a wild vine with wild gourds that were poisonous.
8. Elisha put flour into the pot of stew and it became harmless.
9. One hundred men were fed with plenty left over.

CHAPTER 5

1. He was the commander of the Syrian army.
2. He was a leper.
3. His wife's servant, a captive Israelite girl, told her mistress about Elisha.
4. a. He told him to wash himself seven times in the Jordan and he would be healed. b. He was furious at first, thinking that elisha would come out to heal him or that there were better rivers in his land. c. His servants convinced him to try the advice of Elisha. d. He asked Elisha for the lord to forgive him when he had to go in with his master to the temple of their false god.
5. Elisha wanted nothing of Naaman.
6. Geahzi wanted silver and some clothing for himself from Naaman.
7. Elisha pronounced leprosy on Gehazi and his descendants forever.

CHAPTER 6

1. The sons of the prophets wanted to build a bigger place to dwell with Elisha.
2. a. An axehead fell off into the Jordan river. b. Elisha put a stick in the water and the ax head floated to the top.
3. Somehow Israel always knew where to avoid the ambush that Syria had set against them.
4. a. God struck the Syrians with blindness. b. Elisha led them inside of the city of Samaria.
5. a. Elisha told the King of Israel to feed the Syrian captives and send them away to their land. b. This act brought peace on them for a while.
6. The people were eating donkey heads, dove droppings, and their own children.

CHAPTER 7

1. God caused them to hear a great multitude, the noise of a great army. They became fearful for their lives and fled.
2. Four lepers who were going to defect to Syria discovered the abandoned camp of the Syrians.
3. a. An officer of the army of Israel was trampled in the rush to the spoil of the Syrian camp and died. b. He had doubted the word of Elisha and the ability of God to help Israel.

CHAPTER 8

1. Elisha warned the woman whose son he had restored to life about the coming famine.
2. a. Ben-Hadad sought Elisha for an answer about his recovery. b. Elisha told Ben-Hadad he would recover from the disease but would die. c. Hazael, Ben-Hadad's messenger to Elisha, suffocated him.
3. Joram of Israel and Ahaziah of Judah fought against Hazael.

CHAPTER 9

1. Jehu was anointed king of Israel.
2. The messengers of King Joram joined forces with Jehu.
3. Jehu came in the name of the Lord because of the harlotries of Jezebel.
4. The blood of the descendants of Ahab would be shed on the plot of ground taken by Ahab from Naboth and there would be none to reign on the throne.
5. King ahaziah was shot and killed by Jehu and his men.
6. Jezebel put paint on her eyes and adorned her hair.
7. a. At the command of Jehu, two eunuchs threw her out an upper window and she was trampled by the horses. b. Jezebel's skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands were all that was left of Jezebel. c. The dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.

CHAPTER 10

1. Ahab had seventy sons.
2. If the elders were with Jehu they were to cut off the heads of the sons of Ahab and bring them to Jehu.
3. Jehu killed all the brothers of Ahaziah, King of Judah.
4. Jehu pretended to hold a great sacrifice for the Baal worshipers, then he killed them when they came to the mandatory gathering.
5. Jehu failed to destroy the two golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

CHAPTER 11

1. Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah ruled over Judah.
2. Athaliah had all the royal heirs removed.
3. Joash was seven years old when he became king of Judah.

CHAPTER 12

1. Jehoash did good things all the days that Jehoida the priest instructed him.
2. Joash set up a box at the entrance of the temple to collect money that he used to repair the temple.
3. The servants of Joash conspired against and killed Jehoash. Instead of trusting in God Joash compromised with the King of Syria by giving him all the treasures of the house of the Lord.

CHAPTER 13

1. The arrow represented the deliverance of the Lord from the Syrians.
2. The striking of the ground would be how many times Joash would defeat Syria.
3. The dead man revived and he stood on his feet.

CHAPTER 14

1. Overall, Amaziah, king of Judah was a righteous king except that he too did not remove the high places.
2. Amaziah was defeated by Israel after being boastful.
3. A conspiracy was formed against Amaziah after his defeat by Israel, and he was killed.
4. Jeroboam restored territory to Israel according to the word of the Lord spoken through the prophet Jonah of Gath Hepher (This is the same Jonah who God sent to Nineveh). God used Jeroboam, even though he was an evil king, to save the name of Israel and not to completely blot it out.

CHAPTER 15

1. King Azariah reigned fifty-two years in Judah.
2. Azariah did not remove the high places either. Therefore, he was struck with the leprosy.
3. The sons of Jehu would sit on the throne of Israel only until the fourth generation.
4. King Menahem extracted money from the wealthy and paid tribute to the king of Assyria.

CHAPTER 16

1. King Ahaz made his son pass through the fire.
2. King Ahaz had a new altar built, and altered the layout of the original temple. He removed the carts and lavers and the Sea of bronze from where they should be.

CHAPTER 17

1. Israel was besieged and carried away captive by Assyria.
2. The people from foreign nations whom the king of Assyria had in his control were placed in Samaria.
3. The new residents did not fear the Lord. Some were killed by lions sent by God.
4. The king of Assyria sent a priest of God to teach the people in Samaria how to worship the Lord God.

CHAPTER 18

1. Hezekiah was a good king who did what was right in the eyes of the Lord more than any other king before him.
2. The people started to worship the bronze serpent that Moses made as a god.
3. a. Sennacherib said the Lord had sent him against Judah. b. He said God had no more power to deliver Judah from the Assyrians than the gods of any other nation they had captured.

CHAPTER 19

1. Hezekiah sought the word of God from Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
2. Assyria would not shoot an arrow against Judah. God would defend the city.
3. An angel passed through the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 men.
4. Sennacherib’s two sons killed him as he worshiped his god in his temple.

CHAPTER 20

1. God added fifteen years to Kezekiah’s life.
2. God caused the shadow on the sundial to go backward ten degrees as a sign to Hezekiah.
3. Hezekiah toured men from Babylon.
4. All the treasures of Hezekiah's house and the people of Judah would be carried away captive to Babylon.

CHAPTER 21

1. Manasseh built altars for Baal.
2. Manasseh set up an image of the false goddess Asherah in the temple.

CHAPTER 22

1. Josiah was eight years old when he became king.
2. Josiah was a good king and did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
3. The Book of the Law was found in the house of the Lord
4. Josiah tore his clothes and humbled himself before God because of the words in the book of the Law of Moses.
5. Huldah, the prophetess, affirmed that God would bring calamity on Judah for turning away from Him but King Josiah would have peace in his time because he humbled himself before God when he heard the words on the book of the law.

CHAPTER 23

1. Josiah removed and destroyed all the false gods and articles used for their worship from the house of the Lord.
2. a. The bones of men and the high priests of Baal would be burned on the altar built by Jeroboam (1 Kings 13:2) by a son of David, Josiah. b. The prophet from Bethel in the days of Jeroboam made this prophecy against the altar built by Jeroboam (1 Kings 13:1). c. The prophet from Samaria who had fooled the man of God from Bethel into staying and eating with him (1 Kings 11:31) was buried next to the prophet from Bethel.
3. Josiah reinstituted the Passover.
4. The country of Egypt defeated Judah.
5. King Jehoahaz was captured and taken to Egypt.

CHAPTER 24

1. Babylon came up against Egypt and Judah.
2. All the royal household, all the officers, the fighting men, and the craftsmen were taken to Babylon.
3. Zedekiah was made king.

CHAPTER 25

1. From the ninth year of the tenth month to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign they were besieged.
2. Zedekiah’s sons were killed before his eyes, and he was blinded.
3. Gedaliah was made governor of Judah.
4. Evil Merodach, a later king of Babylon treated Jehoiachin kindly.