But now, get me a musician.” When the musician played, the Lord energized him,

Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him,

Elijah replied, “That’s a difficult request! If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”

Samaria’s food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove’s droppings for five shekels of silver.

The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

When they first moved in, they did not worship the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

At the same time they worshiped the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

They were worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after.

When Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

Just before the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.

He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.