The Histories · Old Testament
2 Kings
2 Kings is book 12 of 66 and belongs to the Histories in the Old Testament. It has 25 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 154 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- 2 Kings 1: 2 Kings 1: Ahaziah's inquiry of Baal-zebub and the fire on the captains
Moab rebels against Israel after Ahab's death. Ahaziah falls through a lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and sends messengers to enquire of… - 2 Kings 2: 2 Kings 2: Elijah taken up by a whirlwind and Elisha's first acts
The narrator says at the outset that the Lord is about to take Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind. Elijah walks from Gilgal to Beth-el, Jericho and… - 2 Kings 3: 2 Kings 3: Jehoram, Jehoshaphat and the campaign against Moab
Jehoram the son of Ahab begins to reign over Israel in Jehoshaphat's eighteenth year and reigns twelve years. The narrator says he did evil but not… - 2 Kings 4: 2 Kings 4: the widow's oil, the Shunammite's son, and bread for a hundred
A widow of one of the sons of the prophets tells Elisha that a creditor is coming to take her two sons as bondmen. She has only a pot of oil; at his… - 2 Kings 5: 2 Kings 5: Naaman's leprosy and Gehazi's greed
Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, is a great and honourable man, the one through whom the Lord gave Syria deliverance, and a leper. A… - 2 Kings 6: 2 Kings 6: the floating axe head, Syrians led blind to Samaria, and famine
The sons of the prophets find their dwelling too small and go to Jordan to cut beams, with Elisha at their request. A borrowed axe head falls into… - 2 Kings 7: 2 Kings 7: flour for a shekel and the four lepers at the empty camp
Elisha announces the word of the Lord: by the next day a measure of fine flour and two measures of barley will each sell for a shekel in the gate of… - 2 Kings 8: 2 Kings 8: the Shunammite's land, Hazael's rise, and two kings of Judah
Elisha warns the woman whose son he restored that the Lord has called a seven-year famine, and she sojourns in the land of the Philistines. On her… - 2 Kings 9: 2 Kings 9: Jehu anointed, and the deaths of Joram, Ahaziah and Jezebel
Elisha sends one of the children of the prophets to Ramoth-gilead with a box of oil to anoint Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi in an… - 2 Kings 10: 2 Kings 10: Jehu destroys the house of Ahab and the worshippers of Baal
Ahab has seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu writes to the city's rulers, elders and guardians, daring them to set one on the throne and fight; they answer… - 2 Kings 11: 2 Kings 11: Athaliah's seizure of Judah and the crowning of Joash
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah sees that her son is dead, she destroys all the seed royal. Jehosheba, daughter of King Joram and sister of… - 2 Kings 12: 2 Kings 12: Jehoash repairs the temple and buys off Hazael
Jehoash begins to reign in Jehu's seventh year and reigns forty years in Jerusalem; his mother is Zibiah of Beer-sheba. The narrator says he did… - 2 Kings 13: 2 Kings 13: Jehoahaz and Jehoash of Israel, and the death of Elisha
Jehoahaz the son of Jehu begins to reign over Israel in the twenty-third year of Joash of Judah and reigns seventeen years. He does evil in… - 2 Kings 14: 2 Kings 14: Amaziah challenges Jehoash, and Jeroboam restores Israel's border
Amaziah the son of Joash begins to reign in Judah in the second year of Joash of Israel, aged twenty-five, and reigns twenty-nine years; his mother… - 2 Kings 15: 2 Kings 15: Azariah's leprosy, Jotham's reign, and five kings of Israel in quick succession
Azariah the son of Amaziah begins to reign over Judah at sixteen and reigns fifty-two years; his mother is Jecholiah. He does right, though the high… - 2 Kings 16: 2 Kings 16: Ahaz buys Assyrian help and copies the altar of Damascus
Ahaz the son of Jotham begins to reign over Judah at twenty and reigns sixteen years. The narrator says he does not do right like David but walks in… - 2 Kings 17: 2 Kings 17: Samaria falls, Israel is carried to Assyria, and the narrator explains why
Hoshea the son of Elah reigns nine years over Israel and does evil, though not as the kings before him. Shalmaneser king of Assyria comes up, and… - 2 Kings 18: 2 Kings 18: Hezekiah's reforms and Rab-shakeh's speech at the wall
Hezekiah the son of Ahaz begins to reign over Judah at twenty-five and reigns twenty-nine years; his mother is Abi. The narrator says he does right… - 2 Kings 19: 2 Kings 19: Hezekiah spreads the letter before the Lord, and Sennacherib's army dies in the night
Hearing Rab-shakeh's words, Hezekiah tears his clothes, puts on sackcloth and goes into the house of the Lord. He sends Eliakim, Shebna and the… - 2 Kings 20: 2 Kings 20: Hezekiah's illness, the shadow turned back, and the envoys from Babylon
Hezekiah is sick unto death, and Isaiah the son of Amoz tells him in the Lord's name to set his house in order because he will die. Hezekiah turns… - 2 Kings 21: 2 Kings 21: Manasseh rebuilds what Hezekiah destroyed, and Amon is killed by his servants
Manasseh becomes king at twelve and reigns fifty-five years; his mother is Hephzi-bah. The narrator says he does evil after the abominations of the… - 2 Kings 22: 2 Kings 22: the book of the law found in the temple, and Huldah's word to Josiah
Josiah becomes king at eight and reigns thirty-one years; his mother is Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. The narrator says he does right… - 2 Kings 23: 2 Kings 23: Josiah's covenant, purge and passover, his death at Megiddo, and Egypt's control of Judah
Josiah gathers all the people to the house of the Lord, reads the book of the covenant, and makes a covenant by a pillar; the people stand to it. He… - 2 Kings 24: 2 Kings 24: Nebuchadnezzar takes Jerusalem, Jehoiachin goes captive, and Zedekiah rebels
In Jehoiakim's days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon comes up, and Jehoiakim serves him three years, then rebels. The narrator says the Lord sends… - 2 Kings 25: 2 Kings 25: Jerusalem burned, Zedekiah blinded, Gedaliah murdered, and Jehoiachin released
In Zedekiah's ninth year Nebuchadnezzar and his host besiege Jerusalem. The siege lasts into the eleventh year, and famine leaves no bread. The city…
