2 Kings 1:3
1:3 But the Lord’s angelic messenger told Elijah the Tishbite, “Get up, go to meet the messengers from the king of Samaria. Say this to them: ‘You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are on your way to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub the god of Ekron.
2 Kings 1:9
1:9 The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him, “Prophet, the king says, ‘Come down!’”
2 Kings 1:13
1:13 The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.
2 Kings 3:7
3:7 He sent
this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat
replied, “I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.”
2 Kings 3:27
3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel,
so they broke off the attack
and returned to their homeland.
2 Kings 4:34-35
4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over
the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s
mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin
grew warm.
4:35 Elisha
went back and walked around in the house.
Then he got up on the bed again
and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
2 Kings 12:4
12:4 Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, the silver received from those who have made vows, and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 12:10
12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary
and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the
Lord’s temple and bagged it up.
2 Kings 16:7
16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent.
March up and rescue me from the power
of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked
me.”
2 Kings 17:4
17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt.
Hoshea had sent messengers to King So
of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.
2 Kings 17:7
A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History
17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods;
2 Kings 17:36
17:36 Instead you must worship the
Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability;
bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.
2 Kings 18:9
18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched up against Samaria and besieged it.
2 Kings 19:23
19:23 Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,
‘With my many chariots
I climbed up the high mountains,
the slopes of Lebanon.
I cut down its tall cedars,
and its best evergreens.
I invaded its most remote regions,
its thickest woods.
2 Kings 20:5
20:5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the
Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow
you will go up to the
Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 23:2
23:2 The king went up to the
Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud
all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the
Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 23:29
23:29 During Josiah’s reign Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt marched toward
the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to fight him, but Necho
killed him at Megiddo
when he saw him.