2 Kings
2 Kings 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness.”But the LORD’s angel said to Elijah...
2 Kings 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When the LORD was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went...
2 Kings 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like his father and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father...
2 Kings 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”Elisha said to her, “What should I do for...
2 Kings 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria; he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out...
2 Kings 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” He answered, “Go!”One said, “Please be...
2 Kings 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Elisha said, “Hear the LORD’s word. The LORD says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'”Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if the...
2 Kings 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”The woman arose, and did according to the...
2 Kings 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up...
2 Kings 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,“Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified...
2 Kings 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put...
2 Kings 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and...
2 Kings 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen years.He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He...
2 Kings 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes,...
2 Kings 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that...
2 Kings 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in the LORD his God’s eyes, like David his father.But he...
2 Kings 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years.He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his...
2 Kings 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.He did that which was right in...
2 Kings 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD’s house.He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day...
2 Kings 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.'”Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,“Remember now, LORD, I beg you,...
2 Kings 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.For he built again the high places which Hezekiah...
2 Kings 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand...
2 Kings 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.The king went up to the LORD’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him–with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing...
2 Kings 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.The LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of the Syrians, bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it,...
2 Kings 25
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.On the ninth...