They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

“Go, seek an oracle from ¹  the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about ²  the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, ³  because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.” ⁴ 

Josiah also got rid of ¹  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ²  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ³  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ⁴  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

So Jehu eradicated Baal worship ¹  from Israel.

At that time King Jehoram left Samaria and assembled all Israel for war.

The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace. ¹ 

She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s ¹  bed. She shut the door behind her and left.

She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.

I know where you live, and everything you do. ¹ 

Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him, ¹ 

He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three ¹  eunuchs looked down at him.

Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” ¹ 

because they have done evil in my sight ¹  and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

They would then hand over ¹  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ²  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, “Help us, my master, O king!”

The prophet’s ¹  attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, ²  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

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 ¹  Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped ²  other gods;

Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; ¹  bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

So the Lord was furious ¹  with Israel and rejected them; ²  only the tribe of Judah was left.

Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”