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    2 KINGS

    OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

    • 1

      • Elijah foretells Ahaziah’s death (1-18)

    • 2

      • Elijah taken up in a windstorm (1-18)

        • Elisha gets Elijah’s official garment (13, 14)

      • Elisha heals Jericho’s water (19-22)

      • Bears kill young boys from Bethel (23-25)

    • 3

      • Jehoram, king of Israel (1-3)

      • Moab rebels against Israel (4-25)

      • Moab defeated (26, 27)

    • 4

      • Elisha multiplies a widow’s oil (1-7)

      • A Shunammite woman’s hospitality (8-16)

      • Woman rewarded with a son; he dies (17-31)

      • Elisha resurrects the dead son (32-37)

      • Elisha makes stew edible (38-41)

      • Elisha multiplies bread (42-44)

    • 5

      • Naaman healed of leprosy by Elisha (1-19)

      • Greedy Gehazi struck with leprosy (20-27)

    • 6

      • Elisha makes axhead float (1-7)

      • Elisha versus the Syrians (8-23)

        • Eyes of Elisha’s attendant opened (16, 17)

        • Syrians mentally blinded (18, 19)

      • Famine in besieged Samaria (24-33)

    • 7

      • Elisha foretells end of famine (1, 2)

      • Food found at abandoned Syrian camp (3-15)

      • Elisha’s prophecy fulfilled (16-20)

    • 8

      • Shunammite woman’s land restored to her (1-6)

      • Elisha, Ben-hadad, and Hazael (7-15)

      • Jehoram, king of Judah (16-24)

      • Ahaziah, king of Judah (25-29)

    • 9

      • Jehu anointed as king of Israel (1-13)

      • Jehu kills Jehoram and Ahaziah (14-29)

      • Jezebel killed; dogs eat her flesh (30-37)

    • 10

      • Jehu kills the house of Ahab (1-17)

        • Jehonadab joins Jehu (15-17)

      • Baal worshippers killed by Jehu (18-27)

      • Summary of Jehu’s reign (28-36)

    • 11

      • Athaliah usurps the throne (1-3)

      • Jehoash secretly made king (4-12)

      • Athaliah killed (13-16)

      • Jehoiada’s reforms (17-21)

    • 12

      • Jehoash, king of Judah (1-3)

      • Jehoash repairs the temple (4-16)

      • Syrian invasion (17, 18)

      • Jehoash killed (19-21)

    • 13

      • Jehoahaz, king of Israel (1-9)

      • Jehoash, king of Israel (10-13)

      • Elisha tests Jehoash’s zeal (14-19)

      • Elisha’s death; his bones resurrect a man (20, 21)

      • Elisha’s final prophecy fulfilled (22-25)

    • 14

      • Amaziah, king of Judah (1-6)

      • War with Edom and with Israel (7-14)

      • Death of Jehoash of Israel (15, 16)

      • Death of Amaziah (17-22)

      • Jeroboam II, king of Israel (23-29)

    • 15

      • Azariah, king of Judah (1-7)

      • Israel’s last kings: Zechariah (8-12), Shallum (13-16), Menahem (17-22), Pekahiah (23-26), Pekah (27-31)

      • Jotham, king of Judah (32-38)

    • 16

      • Ahaz, king of Judah (1-6)

      • Ahaz bribes the Assyrians (7-9)

      • Ahaz copies pagan altar (10-18)

      • Death of Ahaz (19, 20)

    • 17

      • Hoshea, king of Israel (1-4)

      • Fall of Israel (5, 6)

      • Israel exiled because of apostasy (7-23)

      • Foreigners brought into Samaritan cities (24-26)

      • Samaritans’ mixed religion (27-41)

    • 18

      • Hezekiah, king of Judah (1-8)

      • Review of Israel’s fall (9-12)

      • Sennacherib invades Judah (13-18)

      • The Rabshakeh taunts Jehovah (19-37)

    • 19

      • Hezekiah seeks God’s help through Isaiah (1-7)

      • Sennacherib threatens Jerusalem (8-13)

      • Hezekiah’s prayer (14-19)

      • Isaiah conveys God’s answer (20-34)

      • Angel slays 185,000 Assyrians (35-37)

    • 20

      • Hezekiah’s sickness and recovery (1-11)

      • Messengers from Babylon (12-19)

      • Death of Hezekiah (20, 21)

    • 21

      • Manasseh, king of Judah; his bloodshed (1-18)

        • Jerusalem to be destroyed (12-15)

      • Amon, king of Judah (19-26)

    • 22

      • Josiah, king of Judah (1, 2)

      • Instructions for temple repair (3-7)

      • Book of the Law found (8-13)

      • Huldah’s prophecy of calamity (14-20)

    • 23

      • Josiah’s reforms (1-20)

      • Passover celebrated (21-23)

      • Josiah’s further reforms (24-27)

      • Josiah’s death (28-30)

      • Jehoahaz, king of Judah (31-33)

      • Jehoiakim, king of Judah (34-37)

    • 24

      • Jehoiakim’s rebellion and death (1-7)

      • Jehoiachin, king of Judah (8, 9)

      • First deportation to Babylon (10-17)

      • Zedekiah, king of Judah; his rebellion (18-20)

    • 25

      • Nebuchadnezzar’s siege of Jerusalem (1-7)

      • Jerusalem and its temple destroyed; second deportation (8-21)

      • Gedaliah made governor (22-24)

      • Gedaliah murdered; people flee to Egypt (25, 26)

      • Jehoiachin released in Babylon (27-30)