2 Kings

2 Kings 21:10-12(NKJV)

And the LORD Spoke by His servants the prophets, saying, Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him. and has also made Judah sin with his idols), therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah. that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

Author

• The author of 1st and 2nd Kings is unknown but the writing if these two books are attributed to Jeremiah
• Jeremiah is also called the weeping prophet. 

Date

• 560-538 B.C.

Theme

• Lessons from the ruin of Israel and Judah
• Disobedience and Rebellion bring Captivity and Bondage

Purpose

• The apostasy of the divided kingdom brings captivity and bondage. 
• Judgment on the kingdom of Israel came through Assyria
• Judgment on the kingdom of Judah through Babylon. 
• The kingdoms experience short periods of revival under the rule of godly kings.

Content

• Elijah and Elisha: 2 Kings 1:1-8:15
• 2 Kings 2:9(NKJV) And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Eljah said to Elisha, "Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?" Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me."
• Kings of Israel and Judah: 2 Kings 8:16-17:6

• Israel Captive to Assyria: 2 Kings 17:7-41
• 2 Kings 17:6-9(NKJV) In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods, 8 and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves [a]high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.
• Judah Survives Assyrian Rule: 2 Kings 18:1-23:37
• 2 Kings 18:1-7(NKJV) Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done. He removed the [b]high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the [c]wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.  He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. 6 For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.  The Lord was with him; he prospered wherever he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
• Judah Captive to Babylon: 2 Kings 24:1-25:30
• 2 Kings 24:8-12(NKJV) Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.  And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, as his servants were besieging it. Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.

Christ In 2nd Kings

• Elijah the forerunner for Christ
• Elisha as a type of Christ

John 14:12(NKJV)

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

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