2 Kings 8:18
8:18 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter.
He did evil in the sight of
the
Lord.
2 Kings 8:1
Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman
8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 12:1
12:1 (12:2) In Jehu’s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem.
His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.
2 Kings 16:1
Ahaz’s Reign over Judah
16:1 In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham’s son Ahaz became king over Judah.
2 Kings 21:25--22:1
21:25 The rest of Amon’s accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.
21:26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah, and his son Josiah replaced him as king.
Josiah Repents
22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.
2 Kings 22:1-3
Josiah Repents
22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah, from Bozkath.
22:2 He did what the Lord approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.
22:3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders:
2 Kings 1:2-4
1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria
and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders,
“Go, ask
Baal Zebub,
the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”
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.
1:4 Therefore this is what the Lord says, “You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!”’” So Elijah went on his way.