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2 Kings 5
[Bible]2 Kings 5 tells how Naaman, commander of the army of Aram, is healed of leprosy after washing seven times in the Jordan River as Elisha instructed. It continues with the account of Gehazi, who secretly accepts gifts and is struck with leprosy.
2 Kings 3
[Bible]2 Kings 3 recounts how Jehoram king of Israel, together with Jehoshaphat king of Judah and the king of Edom, marches against rebellious Moab. When the armies run out of water in the wilderness, Elisha prophesies both water and victory. The chapter ends with Mesha king of Moab offering his firstborn son as a burnt offering.
2 Kings 10
[Bible]2 Kings 10 recounts how Jehu wipes out the house of Ahab, the brothers of King Ahaziah of Judah, and the worshipers of Baal. It also records his twenty-eight-year reign, during which he did not turn from the sin of Jeroboam's golden calves.
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 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.
2 Kings 7
[Bible]2 Kings 7 tells how, while Samaria lay starving under an Aramean siege, Elisha prophesied that the price of grain would fall sharply the next day, and how, just as he had said, the Aramean army fled and the siege was lifted.
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 Kings 13
[Bible]2 Kings 13 records the reigns of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, and his son Jehoash over the northern kingdom of Israel, together with the final prophecy and death of the prophet Elisha.
2 Kings 11
[Bible]2 Kings 11 recounts how Athaliah destroyed the royal family of Judah and ruled the land for six years, and how she fell when the priest Jehoiada crowned the seven-year-old Joash, whom he had kept hidden and raised.
2 Kings 20
[Bible]This chapter records how Hezekiah, king of Judah, fell ill and through prayer received fifteen more years of life; how he saw the sign of the sun's shadow going backward; how he showed his treasures to envoys from Babylon and then heard the prediction of captivity; and how he died.
2 Kings 15
[Bible]2 Kings 15 records the reigns of Azariah (Uzziah) and Jotham, kings of Judah, and a period of turmoil in the northern kingdom of Israel, when the kings from Zachariah to Pekah were assassinated one after another and Assyria invaded.
2 Kings 17
[Bible]2 Kings 17 records the fall of Samaria to Assyria and the end of the northern kingdom of Israel under its last king, Hoshea. It explains the reasons for the kingdom's destruction and describes how the foreign peoples resettled in Samaria worshiped the LORD alongside their own gods.
2 Kings 24
[Bible]2 Kings 24 records King Jehoiakim of Judah's rebellion against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Jehoiachin's surrender and the first large-scale deportation to Babylon, and the accession of Zedekiah.
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.
2 Kings 21
[Bible]2 Kings 21 recounts the fifty-five-year reign of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, who revived idolatry in Judah, and the judgment announced against Jerusalem and Judah. It also recounts the reign of his son Amon, who was killed by his servants after two years.
2 Kings 19
[Bible]In this chapter, Hezekiah, facing the threats of Sennacherib king of Assyria, sends messengers to Isaiah and prays in the temple. God answers: the angel of the LORD strikes down 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, and Sennacherib is later killed in his own land.
2 Kings 22
[Bible]2 Kings 22 recounts the accession of Josiah, king of Judah, and his repair of the temple. When the book of the law is found in the temple, the king repents, and the prophetess Huldah announces both the judgment coming upon Judah and the mercy Josiah will receive.
2 Kings 25
[Bible]The final chapter of 2 Kings, recording the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian siege, the burning of the temple, the carrying away of the people of Judah into captivity, the assassination of the governor Gedaliah, and the release of the captive king Jehoiachin from prison.
2 Kings 23
[Bible]2 Kings 23 records the reforms of King Josiah of Judah, who renewed the covenant according to the newly discovered book of the covenant, removed idols and high places, and kept the Passover. The chapter then recounts Josiah's death at Megiddo and the accession of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim.
2 Chronicles 2
[Bible]2 Chronicles 2 records Solomon's decision to build the temple and his royal palace, his exchange of letters with Huram king of Tyre, who agrees to supply timber and a skilled craftsman, and his conscription of foreign laborers.