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2 Kings 14
[Bible]2 Kings 14 records the reign of Amaziah king of Judah and his defeat at Beth-shemesh, along with the reigns of Jehoash and Jeroboam II, kings of Israel. It reports that Jeroboam II restored Israel's territory in accordance with the word of the prophet Jonah.
2 Chronicles 18
[Bible]This chapter recounts how Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, joins Ahab, king of Israel, in the battle for Ramoth-gilead. Unlike the four hundred prophets, the prophet Micaiah foretells defeat, and Ahab, who fights in disguise, is struck by an arrow and dies.
Eliadah
[People]Eliadah was the father of Rezon, who became an adversary of Israel during the reign of Solomon. He is a biblical figure named only once, in 1 Kings 11:23.
Hosea (Prophet)
[People]Hosea was a prophet active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC and is the central figure of the biblical Book of Hosea. The account of his marriage to his unfaithful wife Gomer, whom he continued to love, is read as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.
2 Kings 16
[Bible]2 Kings 16 recounts the reign of Ahaz, king of Judah. Attacked by Aram and Israel, Ahaz appeals to Assyria for help and sends tribute. He then has an altar built on the model of one he saw in Damascus and alters the altar and furnishings of the Jerusalem temple.
2 Chronicles 25
[Bible]2 Chronicles 25 recounts the reign of Amaziah, king of Judah. After defeating Edom, he worships the gods of Edom and provokes Joash, king of Israel, to battle, only to be defeated. The chapter closes with his death in a conspiracy.
Ezekiel 21
[Bible]Ezekiel 21 contains prophecies that the LORD will draw His sword to judge Jerusalem and the king of Israel, that the king of Babylon will practice divination at a fork in the road and turn toward Jerusalem, and that Ammon will also come under judgment.
Zibiah
[People]Zibiah is a woman from Beersheba mentioned in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles in the Old Testament. She was the mother of King Joash of Judah.
Jerusalem
[Bible]Jerusalem is a city in the hill country of Judah. David made it his capital and Solomon built the temple there, making it the center of Israel's faith. Jesus was crucified and rose again there, and at the close of the Bible it becomes the symbol of the "New Jerusalem."
Shear-jashub
[People]Shear-jashub was a son of the prophet Isaiah whose Hebrew name means "a remnant shall return." Isaiah 7 records that he accompanied his father to meet Ahaz, king of Judah.
Dibon
[Bible]Dibon was a city of Moab on the plateau east of the Dead Sea, north of the Arnon Valley. It appears in the accounts of Israel's settlement east of the Jordan and in the prophecies against Moab, and it is known as the site where the Mesha Stele was discovered.
2 Kings 18
[Bible]Second Kings 18 records the accession and religious reforms of Hezekiah, king of Judah; the fall of Samaria, capital of the northern kingdom of Israel; the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib, king of Assyria; and the threats the Rabshakeh delivered before the walls of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 7
[Bible]Isaiah 7 is the chapter in which Isaiah urges Ahaz, king of Judah, who is afraid of the allied forces of Aram and the northern kingdom of Israel, to have faith, and delivers to him the sign of Immanuel. The chapter then foretells the Assyrian invasion.
Ezekiel (Prophet)
[People]Ezekiel was an Old Testament priest and prophet who ministered during the Babylonian exile. He proclaimed to the exiles of Judah both the judgment of Jerusalem and the restoration of Israel, and his prophecies are preserved in the Book of Ezekiel.
Deborah
[People]Deborah was a prophetess and judge in the Old Testament Book of Judges, known for defeating the army of Jabin, king of Canaan, together with Barak, and for the Song of Deborah, which commemorates the victory.
Amos (Prophet)
[People]Amos was an Old Testament prophet, a herdsman from Tekoa in Judah, who proclaimed God's judgment and justice to the northern kingdom of Israel during the reigns of Uzziah and Jeroboam II. He is the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Amos.
Mount Zemaraim
[Bible]Mount Zemaraim is the mountain on which Abijah, king of Judah, stood and addressed the army of Israel before his battle with Jeroboam, king of the northern kingdom of Israel (2 Chronicles 13:4). It appears to have been located in the hill country of Ephraim, near Bethel.
2 Kings 9
[Bible]2 Kings 9 is the chapter in which one of the sons of the prophets, sent by Elisha, anoints the army commander Jehu as king of Israel, after which Jehu kills King Joram of Israel, King Ahaziah of Judah, and Jezebel.
Beersheba
[Bible]Beersheba was a town at the southern edge of the land of Judah, in the northern Negev. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob dug wells and worshiped God there, and the expression "from Dan to Beersheba" marks the southern boundary of Israel.
Syro-Ephraimite War
[Bible]A war in the late eighth century BC in which Rezin, king of Aram (Syria), and Pekah, king of the northern kingdom of Israel (Ephraim), joined forces to attack Ahaz, king of Judah. The Immanuel prophecy of Isaiah 7 was given during this crisis.