GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 11

2 Kings 5:7-8

    As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, "Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!"

    When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: "Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel." 

 

2 Kings 5:11  

    But Naaman went away angry and said, "I thought he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hands over the spot and cure me of my leprosy."

 

2 Kings 5:14-15  

So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

    Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant." 

 

2 Kings 5:20  

... Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, "My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he had brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him." 

(see all 2 Kings 5) 

 

2 Kings 6:6  

    The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. 

 

2 Kings 6:9-10  

    The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: "Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there." So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.

 

2 Kings 6:15  

    When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. "Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?" the servant asked.

(2 Kings 6 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 10

2 Kings 4:16-17  (continued)

"About this time next year," Elisha said, "you will hold a son in your arms."

    "No, my lord!" she objected. "Please, man of God, don't mislead your servant!"

    But the woman became pregnant and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

 

2 Kings 4:20-21  

After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

 

2 Kings 4:22  

    She called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return." 

 

2 Kings 4:25-27  

So she set out and came to the man of God at Carmel.

    When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, "Look! There's the Shunammite!  Run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' "

    Everything is all right," she said.

    When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me why." 

 

2 Kings 4:40  

The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it.

 

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," Elisha said. 

(see all 2 Kings 4) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 9

2 Kings 1:13  (continued)

    So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. "Man of God," he begged, "please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants! See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!"

    The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, "Go down with him; do not be afraid of him." So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.

 

2 Kings 1:16  

    He told the king, "This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!"

(see all 2 Kings 1)

 

2 Kings 2:13-14  

    Elisha then picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. "Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.

(see all 2 Kings 2 - 3)

 

2 Kings 4:5-7  

    She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another one."

    But he replied, "There is not a jar left." Then the oil stopped flowing.

    She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left."

 

2 Kings 4:9-10  

She said to her husband, "I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. Let's make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us."

(2 Kings 4 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 - 2 Kings - Part 8

1 Kings 19:8 

So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by the food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

 

1 Kings 19:10  

    He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."

 

1 Kings 19:14  

    He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."

(see all 1 Kings 19)

 

1 Kings 20:28  

    The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD!" 

(see all 1 Kings 20) 

 

1 Kings 21:9-10  

In those letters she wrote:

        "Proclaim a day of fasting and seat

    Naboth in a prominent place among

    the people. But seat two scoundrels 

    opposite him and have them bring

    charges that he has cursed both God

    and the king. Then take him out and 

    stone him to death." 

 

1 Kings 21:13  

Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth has cursed both God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

(see all 1 Kings 21)

 

1 Kings 22:53  

He served and worshiped Baal and aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.

(see all 1 Kings 22)

 

2 Kings 1:3-4  

    But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?' Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die.' " So Elijah went.

 

2 Kings 1:6  

    "A man came to meet us," they replied. "And he said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, "This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!" ' " 

 

2 Kings 1:9-12  

    Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, "Man of God, the king says, 'Come down!' "

    Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.

    At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, "Man of God, this is what the king says, 'Come down at once!' "

    "If I am a man of God, " Elijah replied, "may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

(2 Kings 1 continues tomorrow) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Kings - Part 7

1 Kings 17:1 

    Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word."

 

1 Kings 17:12  

    "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it--and die."

 

1 Kings 17:14  

"For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.' "

 

1 Kings 17:18  

She said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?"

 

1 Kings 17:20-21  

Then he cried out to the LORD, "LORD, my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?" Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!" 

 

1 Kings 17:24  

    Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth."

(see all 1 Kings 17)

 

1 Kings 18:10-11  

"As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you. But now you tell me to go to my master and say, 'Elijah is here.' " 

 

1 Kings 18:21  

Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him."

    But the people said nothing.

 

1 Kings 18:24  

"Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The god who answers by fire--he is God."

 

1 Kings 18:36-37  

    At the time of the sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, LORD, are God, and that you are turning hearts back again."

 

1 Kings 18:39  

    When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, "The LORD--he is God! The LORD--he is God!"

(see all 1 Kings 18) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Kings - Part 6

1 Kings 13:23-24

    When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his donkey for him. As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

 

1 Kings 13:26  

    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who defied the word of the LORD. The LORD has given him over to the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of the LORD had warned him."

 

1 Kings 13:29  

    So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

 

1 Kings 13:31  

    After burying him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones."

(see all 1 Kings 13)

 

1 Kings 14:7  

"Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: 'I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over my people Israel.' "

 

1 Kings 14:13  

"All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, has found anything good."

(see all 1 Kings 14)

 

1 Kings 15:3-4  

    He committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been. Nevertheless, for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by making Jerusalem strong.

 

1 Kings 15:29-30  

    As soon as he began to reign, he killed Jeroboam's whole family. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all, according to the word of the LORD given through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. This happened because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit and because he aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel.

(see all 1 Kings 15)

 

1 Kings 16:12-13  

So Zimri destroyed the whole family of Baasha, in accordance with the word of the LORD spoken against Baasha through the prophet Jehu--because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols.

 

1 Kings 16:26  

He followed completely the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols. 

 

1 Kings 16:33  

Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.

(see all 1 Kings 16) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Kings - Part 5

1 Kings 13:1-3 

    By the word of the LORD a man of God came from Judah to Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering. By the word of the LORD he cried out against the altar: "Altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: 'A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.' " That same day the man of God gave a sign: "This is the sign the LORD has declared: The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it will be poured out."

 

1 Kings 13:4-5  

    When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, "Seize him!" But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up so that he could not pull it back. Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out according to the sign given to the man of God by the word of the LORD.

 

1 Kings 13:6-8  

    Then the king said to the man of God, "Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored." So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and became as it was before.

    The king said to the man of God, "Come home with me for a meal, and I will give you a gift."

    But the man of God answered the king, "Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here."

 

1 Kings 13:11-14  

    Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to the king. Their father asked them, "Which way did he go?" And his sons showed him which road the man of God from Judah had taken. So he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." And when they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it and rode after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?"

    "I am," he replied.

 

1 Kings 13:16  

    The man of God said, "I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place."

 

1 Kings 13:19  

So the man of God returned with him and ate and drank in his house.

 

1 Kings 13:21  

He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, "This is what the LORD says: 'You have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you."

(1 Kings 13 continues tomorrow) 

    

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