2 kings
2 Kings )- Elijah vs sick Ahaziah- ( 1 )
Ahaziah's Idolatry: King Ahaziah of Israel falls through a latticed window, gets seriously injured, and instead of seeking Israel's God, sends messengers to Ekron to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about his recovery. The angel of the Lord tells Elijah to confront the messengers, asking, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to consult Baal-zebub?". Elijah delivers God's decree: the king will not recover but will surely die. Ahaziah sends a captain with fifty men to arrest Elijah. Elijah, sitting on a hilltop, tells the captain that if he is a man of God, fire will come down and consume them. Fire falls from heaven and destroys the captain and his men. The king sends another captain and fifty more men, who meet the same fiery end. A third captain is sent, but he humbly falls on his knees before Elijah, pleading for his life and the lives of his men. The angel of the Lord tells Elijah to go with the third captain, which he does. Elijah goes to Ahaziah and repeats the message: because the king consulted a false god, he will die. As Elijah prophesied, Ahaziah dies, and his brother Jehoram becomes king in his place, with no son of his own to succeed him. Elijah miracle- Elijah consumed army by fire- ( 1:9-13 ). V-9 first attack, v-11 second attack, v-13 third attack; Elijah in whirlwind to heaven, Elisha takes over- ( 2 ); Elijah miracle- Elijah departed river- ( 2:6-8 ); Elijah miracle- Elijah to heaven in a whirlwind- ( 2:11 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha departed river- ( 2:12-14 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha purified spring in Jericho- ( 2:19-22 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha called curse on mocking children- ( 2:23-25 ); Edom, Israel, Judah vs Moab- ( 3 ); Woman’s oil multiplied, son raised- ( 4 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha multiplied widows oil- ( 4:1-7 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha raised boy from dead- ( 4:18-37 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha purified poisoned stew- ( 4:38-41 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha multiplied prophet’s food- ( 4:42-44 ); Naaman healed, Gehazi sick- ( 5 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha healed Naaman of leprosy by water- ( 5:1-14 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha turned leprosy onto Gehazi- ( 5:15-27 ); Naaman healed, a Aramean commander, is plagued by leprosy. On the advice of a captive Israeli servant girl, he visits the prophet Elisha in Israel.Naaman offers gifts to Elisha v15-16- as gratitude, but Elisha refuses, emphasizing healing is not for sale. V 19-22- Gehazi, Elisha's servant, He lies to Naaman, claiming Elisha sent him for gifts takes two talents of silver and two sets of clothes. V24-27- Gehazi lies to Elisha Elisha, aware of the deception, declares that Naaman's leprosy will cling to Gehazi. Ax head floats, angels blind army- ( 6 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha caused ax head to float- ( 6:1-7 ); They with us, more than they with them- ( 6:16 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha had angel blind army- ( 6:8-18 ); ( 6:26- Story of woman eating kids in famine- During a severe siege of Samaria by King Ben-hadad of Aram, the city experienced an extreme famine where basic food items became incredibly expensive. The king of Israel was walking along the city wall when a woman cried out to him for help. When the king asked what was wrong, the woman told him this horrific story: She and another woman had made an agreement out of sheer desperation to cook and eat her son one day, and the other woman's son the next day. The first woman had kept her part of the agreement: "So we boiled my son and ate him". The next day, when it was the other woman's turn to provide her son, "she has hidden her son"; Elisha prophesied food at gate- ( 7 ); Elisha told woman to leave, famine- ( 8 ); Elisha told Jehu go deliver message-( 9 ); Ahab’s family killed- ( 10 ); Jehoiada’s commands- ( 11 ); Jehoash rebuilds temple ( money )- ( 12 ); Elisha died, bones healed person- ( 13 ); Elisha miracle- Elisha’s bones healed a man- ( 13:20-21 ); More kings of Israel, Judah- ( 14 ); Azariah king of Judah- ( 15 ); Ahaz king of Judah- ( 16 ); Hoshea king of Israel- ( 17 );
First exile ( Assyria )- ( 2 Kings 17:1-23 ) Roughly 10 tribes were exiled to "Ten Lost Tribes". The two tribes that remained, primarily in the Southern Kingdom of Judah and not taken in the initial 722 BC Assyrian exile, were Judah and Benjamin (2 Kings 17:18; 2 Chronicles 15:8-9: ). The Bible cites the exile as divine punishment for the Northern Kingdom's idolatry, disobedience to God. Southern Kingdom of Judah in 701 BCE, they failed to capture Jerusalem, allowing Judah to remain as a distinct kingdom until the later Babylonian exile.
Second exile ( 2 Kings 24-25 ).Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, took the Kingdom of Judah into exile in several waves between approximately 605 and 586 BCE. The exile was due to a divine punishment for disobedience to the Law, their idolatry, failure to observe sabbatical laws for the land. The prophecy of Jeremiah predicted a 70-year captivity (Jeremiah 29:10 ).
Hezekiah king of Judah- ( 18 ); Hezekiah’s prayer, God spoke through Isaiah, the prophet- ( 19 ); Hezekiah’s sickness- ( 20 ); Manasseh king of Judah- ( 21 ); Josiah- ( 22 ); Josiah destroy’s Idols in Temple- ( 23 ); Nebuchadnezzar- ( 24 ); Nebuchadnezzar takes Jerusalem- ( 25 );
