GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 14

2 Kings 16:2

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

(see all 2 Kings 16)

 

2 Kings 17:7-9  

    All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods and followed the practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced. The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns.

 

2 Kings 17:39  

"Rather, worship the LORD your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies."

(see all 2 Kings 17)

 

2 Kings 18:5  

    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.

 

2 Kings 18:11-12  

    The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes. This happened because they had not obeyed the LORD their God, but had violated his covenant--all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.

 

2 Kings 18:22  

        " 'But if you say to me, "We are

    depending on the LORD our God--isn't

    he the one whose high places and

    altars Hezekiah removed, saying to 

    Judah and Jerusalem, "You must 

    worship before this altar in Jerusalem."?' "

(see all 2 Kings 18) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 13

2 Kings 8:7-8  (continued)

    Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, "The man of God has come all the way up here," he said to Hazael, "Take a gift with you and go to meet the man of God. Consult the LORD through him; ask him, 'Will I recover from this illness?' "

 

2 Kings 8:10-12  

    Elisha answered, "Go and say to him, 'You will certainly recover.' Nevertheless, the LORD has revealed to me that he will in fact die." He stared at him with a fixed gaze until Hazael was embarrassed. Then the man of God began to weep.

    "Why is my lord weeping?" asked Hazael.

    "Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites," he answered. "You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women."

(see all 2 Kings 8)

 

2 Kings 9:6  

    Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu's head and declared, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anoint you king over the Lord's people Israel.' " 

(see all 2 Kings 9)

 

2 Kings 10:3  

Yet Jehu was not careful to keep the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit. 

(see all 2 Kings 10 - 12)

 

2 Kings 13:18-19  

    Then he said, "Take the arrows," and the king took them. Elisha told him, "Strike the ground." He struck it three times and stopped. The man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times."

(see all 2 Kings 13)

 

2 Kings 14:25  

He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

(see all 2 Kings 14 - 15) 

    

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GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 12

2 Kings 6:30-31  (continued)

    When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body. 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!"

(see all 2 Kings 6)

 

2 Kings 7:2  

    The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?"

    "You will see it with your own eyes," answered Elisha, "but you will not eat any of it."

 

2 Kings 7:17-20  

    Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house. It happened as the man of God had said to the king: "About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria." 

    The officer had said to the man of God, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?" The man of God had replied, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!" And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

(see all 2 Kings 7)

 

2 Kings 8:2  

    The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.

 

2 Kings 8:4  

The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, "Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done."

(2 Kings 8 continues tomorrow) 

    

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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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