When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,

So Jehu eradicated Baal worship from Israel.

They would then hand over the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple.

He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

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

The two units who are off duty on the Sabbath will guard the Lord’s temple and protect the king.

Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.

I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,

He did what the Lord approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.

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

As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. His skin became as smooth as a young child’s and he was healed.

The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’”

(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.

Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.

The Lord provided a deliverer for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. The Israelites once more lived in security.

He defeated 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.