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2 Kings presents the biblical view of history of ancient Israel and Judah from the death of David to the release of his successor Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon.
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What is the significance of the Passover in 2 Kings 23:22?
2 Kings 23:22 ~ Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed.
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Is Jehu a prophet?
24 Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.
25And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into ...
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Does 2 Kings 13:21 foreshadow the event in Matthew 27:52? [closed]
2 Kings 13:
20 And Elisha died and was buried.
Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring. 21Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so ...
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Did the Shunammite woman expect Elisha to resurrect her son in 2 Kings 4:23?
2 Kings 4:
18And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
19“My head! My head!” he complained to his father.
So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his ...
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How to reconcile Deuteronomy 20:19 with 2 Kings 3:19?
Deuteronomy 20:19
When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them ...
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Ancient custom to change vassal king's name
I noticed two places in the book of Kings where a king changes the name of his vassal king. One is found in 2 Kings 23:34 where Pharaoh Necho changed the name of his vassal king to Jehoiakim. The ...
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Why did Hezekiah show the Babylonian foreign diplomatic envoys the wonders of the Israelite kingdom?Were Babylonian envoys spying?
I've always wondered why Hezekiah showed the Babylonian foreign diplomatic envoys all the wealth & power of the Israelite kingdom.
Was Hezekiah just naive, and just talking too much(being loose ...
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In 2 Kings 17:11 LXX, what are "κοινωνοὺς καὶ ἐχάραξαν"?
The YLT, based on the Hebrew has:
2 Kings 17:11
YLT(i) 11 and make perfume there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke Jehovah,
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Shields of Judah
1 Kings 14:27 and 2 Chronicles 12:10 state that King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace the golden ones that King David had made because the golden ones were taken away.
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בַּת צִיּוֹן in the Tanakh—Genitive of possession (Zion’s daughter) or appositional genitive (daughter Zion)?
In 2 Kings 19:21 (and other verses containing the phrase), should the phrase בַּת צִיּוֹן (bat Tzion) be understood as a genitive of possession (Zion’s daughter) or a genitive of apposition, equating ...
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Who was a greater king: Hezekiah or Josiah?
About Hezekiah, we read in 2 Kings 18:5-6:
Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast to ...
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Did God command Hazael to tell a lie to Ben-Hadad in 2 Kings 8:10?
2 Kings 8:9 Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has ...
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2 Kings 17:38 Do not fear (or worship?) other gods
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תִֽירְא֖וּ (ṯî·rə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten
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Did Elisha tell Hazael that Ben Hadad will recover in 2 Kings 8?
2 Kings 8:9-10 NIV
9 Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king ...
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Why did Jehu suggest to his enemies to choose a king to fight him in 2 Kings 10:3?
After Jehu killed King Joram and his mother Jezebel, he planned to eliminate all the sons of Ahab.
2 Kings 10:1 Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and ...
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Did Jehu put words in Elijah's mouth in 2 Kings 9:37?
Elijah prophecied in
1 Kings 21:23 “And also concerning Jezebel the Lord says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
24“Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the ...
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What was the "death in the pot" in 2 Kings 4:38-41?
2 Kings 4:38-41 (NIV)
.. One of them .. found a wild vine and picked
... its gourds ... he cut them up into the pot of stew... they cried
out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And ...
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Did Elisha okay bowing down before an idol in 2 Kings 5:19?
2 Kings 5:18
But may the LORD forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to bow there also--when I bow down ...
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Elisha fed a hundred men in 2 Kings 4:43. Was it a miracle?
2 Kings 4:42 A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” ...
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Did God approve Jehu's lie in 2 Kings 10:18?
2 Kings 10:18 Then Jehu brought all the people together and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.
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How long had the Shunammite’s son been dead before Elisha resurrected him?
Elisha met a Shunammite and gave her a son in 2 Kings 4.
18 The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. 19He said to his father, “My head! My head!”
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What is the significance of Elisha's staff in 2 Kings 4?
What is the significance of Elisha sending Gehazi to place the staff upon the boy's face in anticipation of his later arrival upon the scene in 2 Kings 4:29?
2 Kings 4:29 (NASB)
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Why did Jehu initially refuse to tell the officers what the prophet said?
I'm 2 Kings 9, Elisha dispatched a prophet to anoint Jehu king. He asked Jehu to follow him into an inner room and anointed him king. Following this encounter, he returned to his fellow officers:
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2 Kings 9-10 genealogy question
2 Kings 9: 8 tell us that "The whole house of Ahab will perish." In chapter 10 we are told that Jehu did all that the Lord "had in mind to do." If the whole house of Ahab was ...
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Why does the king blame Elisha for the siege and famine of Samaria in 2 Kings 6:31?
2 Kings 6:31
31 He said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!”
After undergoing a siege which culminated in a severe ...
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What was the usage of the “dove dung” mentioned in 2 Kings 6:25?
When reading about Samaria's condition, I have came across the following:
2 Kings 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged
it, until an ass's head was sold for ...
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(John 3:14-15) Is Jesus Christ an idol? [closed]
Yeah, I know it is a provocative title, but I honestly think this is a very important question and I'd like some serious exploration. The question is "has Jesus become an idol like the serpent from ...
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How old was Ahaziah when he began to rule over Jerusalem?
How old was Ahaziah when he began to rule over Jerusalem?
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2 Kings 8:26 (KJV): Two and twenty years old
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2 Chronicles 22:2 (KJV): Forty and two years old
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Who is the son of the murderer in 2 Kings 6:32?
2 Kings 6:32 NASB
32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the ...
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Who spoke in 2 Kings 6:33?
2 Kings 6:33 KJV
33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any longer?
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Who anointed Hazael as king of Aram?
1 Kings 19:15-16 NASB
15 The Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you have arrived, you shall anoint Hazael king over Aram; 16 and Jehu the son of ...
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Why was Hezekiah not rebuked for seeking a sign in 2 Kings 20
After the promise of healing and the subsequent healing process initiated King Hezekiah still goes on to ask for a sign
2 Kings 20:1-8 NASB
In those days Hezekiah became [a]mortally ill. And ...
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A question about the 'double portion' Kings 2:9
"When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.(2 Kings 2:9-NIV)
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Do 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles contradict each other on Jehoiachin's age when taking the throne and duration of reign?
In Kings II 24:8 it is said that Jehoiachin was 18 when he ascended the
throne and he reigned for 3 months. But in Chronicles II 36:9 it is
said that he reigned for 3 months and 10 days. Also ...
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Why did Elisha rebuke Gehazi for things he did not accept from Naaman?
In 2 Kings 5:26 (ESV):
...“Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male ...
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Where, and how, did Josiah die?
The death of Josiah is reported differently in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. The Kings account is brief:
[WEB] 2 Kings 23 : 29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of ...
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In Isaiah 7:3-7 why does the prophet Isaiah promise Judah that Ephraim & Syria will not attack & prevail against it?
(KJV) Isaiah 7:3-7
3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; 4 And ...
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In 2 Kings 1 did the Moabites rebel against Ahaziah before or after the Jehoshaphat incident in 2 Chronicles 20?
We are told of these two incidents which took place more or less around the same time and its not clear which one preceeded the other.Both incident just took place after the death of Ahab king of ...
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Does 2 Kings 17:33-34 refer to the Israelites or those that came with the king of Assyria?
Initially, the narrative is clearly directed at the children of Israel from verse 7-23 and then from verse 24-31 switches and addresses those that had came with the Assyrian king.
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Cannibalism in the Bible
2 King 6:28-29 Then he asked her, "What's the matter?" She answered,
"This woman said to me, 'Give up your son so we may eat him today, and
tomorrow we'll eat my son.' So we cooked my son and ...
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Why is Jehu called Zimri by Jezebel in 2 Kings 9:31?
2 Kings 9 NIV
31 As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”[e]
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Is Matthew 27:52 an allusion to 2 Kings 13:21?
[Mat 27:49-53 KJV] 49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias [IE: Elijah] will come to save him. 50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, ...
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Is God the creator / bringer of evil according to Isaiah 45:7 and 2 Kings 22:20?
At least two places in the Hebrew Bible can be understood as God bringing evil.
Isaiah 45:7 KJV: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
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In 2 Kings 5:10 was Elisha's command to Naaman, a non-Israelite to be immersed because of ritual impurity?
In 2 Kings 5:10 we read:
[version info] וַיִּשְׁלַח אֵלָיו אֱלִישָׁע, מַלְאָךְ לֵאמֹר: הָלוֹךְ, וְרָחַצְתָּ שֶׁבַע-פְּעָמִים בַּיַּרְדֵּן, וְיָשֹׁב בְּשָׂרְךָ לְךָ וּטְהָר.
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What was the lesson Elisha wanted to teach Joash using the arrows?
In 2 Kings 13:14–17 we find that Joash, the king of Israel, took a bow and some arrows as Elisha told him.
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Elisha said, “Open the east window,” and he did so. Elisha said, “Shoot!”...
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What or whom does "them" reference in 2 Kings 17:22?
What or whom does "them" reference in 2 Kings 17:22?
For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them (2 Kings 17:22 KJV)
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Was the shunammite woman sarcastic or ungrateful in 2 kings 4?
Initial when the shunammite woman had been promised a child she seemed to doubt the word of prophet Elisha.
2 Kings 4:12 NASB
12 Then he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” And ...
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In 2 Kings 4:38-41 why did the prophets of Gilgal still put poison or death (Hades) in the pot after Elijah's and Elisha's reformation?
These were no ordinary prophets, they were rigorously schooled in the prophetic. How come trained prophets under the calibre of Elijah and Elisha still had no discernment between the precious and the ...
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What is the significance of the floating ax head in 2 Kings 6:1-7?
Now the company of prophets said to Elisha, "As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, and ...
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Was it the action of the two captains that caused the death of the hundred soldiers in 2 Kings 1?
Two captains and their men die after being sent to bring in Elijah who calls fire from heaven which consumes them.
2 Kings 1:9 KJV
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