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2 Kings 1
Ahaziah falls through his roof, and sends messengers to ask the god Beelzebub if he will recover from the injury. Elijah is sent by an angel to intercept the messengers and to tell them that Ahaziah is doomed. Ahaziah twice sends men to Elijah, and the men are killed by divine fire. The third time, the leader begs Elijah to listen, and an angel tells Elijah to go with them. He tells Ahaziah that he will die, which comes true.
PEOPLE: Ahaziah - Angel of the Lord - Elijah - יהוה YHVH God - Jehoram
PLACES: Moab - Israel - Samaria - Judah
RELATED ARTICLES: Ahab - Beelzebub - Ekron - Tishbite - Jehoshaphat - Chronicles of the Kings of Israel
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Elijah, in company with Elisha, approaches the Jordan River. He rolls up his mantle and strikes the water. The water immediately divides and Elijah and Elisha cross on dry land. Suddenly, a chariot of fire appears and Elijah is lifted up to heaven in a whirlwind. As Elijah is lifted up, his mantle falls to the ground and Elisha picks it up.
PEOPLE: יהוה YHVH God - Elijah - Elisha - Spirit of the Lord
PLACES: Gilgal - Bethel - Jericho - Jordan River - Mount Carmel - Samaria
RELATED ARTICLES: Whirlwind (atmospheric phenomenon) - Mantle (vesture)
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Moab raises its army against Israel. Jehoram combines the forces of Israel, Judah, and Edom, and they consult Elisha for help. Elisha reluctantly agrees to assist them and prophecies water and victory.
PEOPLE: Jehoram - Jehoshaphat - יהוה YHVH - Mesha - Elisha
PLACES: Israel - Samaria - Judah - Moab - Edom - Kirharaseth
RELATED ARTICLES: Ahab - Baal - Jeroboam - Nebat - Prophet - Shaphat - Elijah - Minstrel
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Elisha tells a widow to fill as many vessels as possible with oil and sell it, and a small amount of oil fills all the containers that she can find. Elisha feeds a hundred people with twenty loaves. In Shunem, Elisha raises a boy from the dead.
PEOPLE: Elisha - יהוה YHVH God - Gehazi
PLACES: Shunem - Mount Carmel - Gilgal - Baalshalisha|Shalishah
RELATED ARTICLES: Prophet - Prayer - Resurrection
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Elisha orders Naaman to wash in the Jordan sevenfold, which angers Naaman, since there were closer rivers, but he is persuaded to wash in the Jordan anyway and is cured. Gehazi, overcome with avarice, solicits, and obtains in the Elisha's name "a talent of silver and two changes of garments" from Naaman.
PEOPLE: Naaman - יהוה YHVH God - Elisha - Gehazi
PLACES: Syria - Israel - Samaria - Jordan River - Abana River - Pharpar - Damascus - Mount Ephraim
RELATED ARTICLES: Tzaraath (Leprosy) - Prophet - Talent (measurement) - Seven - Rimmon
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The king of Syria sends an army to kill Elisha. Elisha, by a prayer, strikes the army blind, then leads them to Samaria, where he restores their sight. He then orders the king of Israel not to harm them.
PEOPLE: Elisha - Syrians - יהוה YHVH - Benhadad
PLACES: Israel - Dothan - Samaria - Syria
RELATED ARTICLES: Prophet - Blindness - Shaphat
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Elisha prophecies that the famine will end and the inflation reverse. Four lepers discover that the Aramaeans have fled their camp. The Aramaean camp is plundered, ending the famine.
PLACES: Samaria - Israel - Jordan River - Aram
RELATED ARTICLES: Shekel - City Gate - Tzaraath (Leprosy) - Famine - Biblical Hittites - Egyptians - Israelites
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Elisha prophesies that Hazael will become the new king of Aram and slaughter the Israelites. Hazael smothers the king with a water soaked cloth and becomes king. When Jehoram, king of Judah dies, his son, Ahaziah rules over Judah. Ahaziah supports Joram, king of Israel at the battle of Ramoth-Gilead against Hazael. While visiting the convalescent Joram, Jehu attacks him, and he is fatally wounded.
PEOPLE: Elisha - יהוה YHVH God - Philistines - Gehazi - Benhadad - Hazael - Jehoram - Edomites - Ahaziah - Joram
PLACES: Damascus - Aram - Israel - Judah - Jerusalem - Edom - Zair - Libnah - Ramoth-Gilead - Jezreel - Ramah
RELATED ARTICLES: Famine - Children of Israel - Ahab - Jehoshaphat - David - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah - Athaliah - Omri
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Elisha sends a prophet to anoint Jehu as the king. Once the prophet does this, Jehu organises a conspiracy against Joram, king of Israel. Jehu persuades palace eunuchs to defenestrate Jezebel.
PEOPLE: Elisha - Jehu - יהוה YHVH God - Ahab - Jezebel - Joram - Ahaziah - Bidkar - Zimri
PLACES: Ramoth-gilead - Israel - Jezreel - Judah - Gur - Ibleam - Megiddo - Jerusalem
RELATED ARTICLES: Prophet - Jehoshaphat - Nimshi - Anoint - Jeroboam - Nebat - Baasha - Ahijah - Hazael - Aram - Naboth - Witchcraft - David - Eunuch - Tishbite
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Jehu challenges Israel to oppose him, but frightened by him they submit and in accordance with his wishes, they decapitate all the descendants of Ahab. Jehu also slaughters every descendant in Jezreel and kills the kinsmen of Ahaziah. During Jehu's reign, Hazael conquers Gilead.
PEOPLE: Jehu - יהוה YHVH - Elijah - Jehonadab - Hazael - Jehoahaz
PLACES: Samaria - Jezreel - Judah - Israel - Bethel - Dan - Jordan River - Gilead - Aroer - Arnon - Bashan
RELATED ARTICLES: Ahab - Ahaziah of Judah - Rechab - Baal - Jeroboam - Nebat - Tribe of Gad - Tribe of Reuben - Tribe of Manasseh - Chronicles of the Kings of Israel
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Athaliah sets out to take the throne. Her sister hides Joash in the temple. Six years later, the priest summons the captain of the guards and Carian mercenaries and shows them Jehoash. The priest has the guards and mercenaries defend the temple while he anoints Joash as king. The priest has Athaliah killed. The people obliterate the temple of Baal.
PEOPLE: Athaliah - Jehosheba - Joram - Joash - יהוה YHVH God - Jehoiada - Mattan
PLACES: Sur
RELATED ARTICLES: Ahaziah - Solomon's Temple - Anointing - Baal
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Jehoash of Judah orders that all money brought to the temple be put toward its repairs. He gives all the sacred relics and gold in the temple to Hazael as tribute to keep him from besieging Jerusalem. His servants conspire against him and murder him.
PEOPLE: Jehu - Jehoash - Jehoiada - Zibiah - יהוה YHVH - Hazael - Jozachar - Jehozabad - Amaziah
PLACES: Jerusalem - Beersheba - Aram - Gath - Judah - Silla
RELATED ARTICLES: Kohen - Carpentry - Masonry - Jehoshaphat - Jehoram - Ahaziah - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah - Millo - Shimeath - Shomer - David
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Jehoash asks Elisha for help against Hazael. Elisha prophecies three victories against Hazael. Elisha then dies and is buried. During another funeral, raiders attack, so the mourners drop the body into Elisha's grave and flee, but when the body touches Elisha's, the man comes back to life. Hazael is succeeded by Ben-hadad, who is defeated thrice by Jehoash, fulfilling Elisha's promise.
PEOPLE: Joash - Jehoahaz - יהוה YHVH - Hazael - Benhadad - Jehoash of Israel - Elisha - Moabites
PLACES: Judah - Israel - Samaria - Aram - Aphek
RELATED ARTICLES: Ahaziah - Jehu - Jeroboam - Nebat - Chronicles of the Kings of Israel - Abraham - Isaac - Jacob
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Amaziah succeeds his father as king of Judah, and slaughters those who killed his father but spares their descendants. Amaziah then conquers the Edomites. Amaziah challenges Jehoash of Israel. The two sides meet in battle, but Judah is defeated.
PEOPLE: Jehoash of Israel - Amaziah - יהוה YHVH God - Jeroboam II - Azariah - Jonah - Zachariah
PLACES: Israel - Kingdom of Judah - Jerusalem - Edom - Selah - Joktheel - Lebanon - Bethshemesh - Samaria - Lachish - Elath - Hamath - Gathhepher - Damascus
RELATED ARTICLES: Jehoahaz[disambiguation needed] - Jehoash of Judah - Jehoaddan - David - Sefer Torah - Moses - Jehu - Sha'ar Efraim - Chronicles of the Kings of Israel - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah - Nebat - Amittai
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The reigns of Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah are documented. Tiglath-pileser invades Israel, capturing several cities and deporting their populations. Hoshea conspires against Pekah, killing him and becoming king in his place.
PEOPLE: Jeroboam - Azariah - יהוה YHVH - Jotham - Zachariah - Shallum - Jabesh - Jehu - Uzziah - Menahem - Tiglath-pileser (Pul) - Pekahiah - Pekah - Argob - Arieh - Gileadites - Hoshea - Rezin - Ahaz
PLACES: Israel - Judah - Jerusalem - Samaria - Tirzah - Tiphsah - Assyria - Ijon - Abel-beth-maachah - Janohah - Kedesh - Hazor - Gilead - Galilee - Naphtali - Aram
RELATED ARTICLES: Amaziah - Jecholiah - Tzaraath - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah - David - Jeroboam - Nebat - Chronicles of the Kings of Israel - Gadi - Talent - Shekel - Remaliah - Elah - Jerusha - Zadok
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The alliance between Aram and Israel besiege Ahaz, and Edom is able to recover Elath, so Ahaz responds by becoming a vassal of Tiglath-pileser, who is subjugating Israel. Tiglath-pileser then attacks Damascus (capital of Aram), killing Rezin and deporting the inhabitants to another part of Assyria.
PEOPLE: Pekah - Ahaz - יהוה YHVH - Rezin - Tiglath-pileser - Urijah - Hezekiah
PLACES: Judah - Jerusalem - Israel - Aram - Elath - Assyria - Damascus - Kir
RELATED ARTICLES: Remaliah - Jotham - David - Kohen - Altar - Burnt offering - Meat offering - Drink offering - Peace offering - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah
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Hoshea is forced to become a vassal of the Assyrians. However, Hoshea fails to send the annual tribute, and sends envoys to Sais, the Egyptian king, for help. Shalmaneser occupies Israel and besieges Samaria, and the nine tribes of Israel are completely deported to other regions of the Assyrian empire.
PEOPLE: Hoshea - יהוה YHVH God - Shalmaneser - So - Tribe of Judah
PLACES: Judah - Samaria - Israel - Assyria - Egypt - Halah - Habor - Gozan - Medes - Babylon - Cuthah - Hamath - Sepharvaim - Succoth-benoth - Nergal - Ashima - Nibhaz - Tartak
RELATED ARTICLES: Ahaz - Elah - The Exodus - Pharaoh - Idolatry - Prophet - 613 Mitzvot - Vanity - Baal - Divination - David - Jeroboam - Nebat - Kohen - Adrammelech - Anammelech - Jacob
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Hezekiah rebels against Assyria and partially subjugates the land of the Philistines. However, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, captures several cities in Judah.
PEOPLE: Hoshea - Hezekiah - יהוה YHVH God - Children of Israel - Philistines - Shalmaneser - Medes - Tartan - Rabsaris - Rabshakeh - Eliakim - Shebna - Joah
PLACES: Israel - Judah - Jerusalem - Gaza - Assyria - Samaria - Halah - Habor - Gozan River - Lachish - Egypt - Hamath - Arpad - Sepharvaim - Hena - Ivah
RELATED ARTICLES: Elah - Ahaz - Abi - Zachariah - David - Moses - Nehushtan - 613 Mitzvot - Talent - Hilkiah - Asaph - Pharaoh - Aramaic language - Hebrew language
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Hezekiah sends messengers to Isaiah who prophecies that God will protect Jerusalem for the sake of the promise made to David. That night an angel kills one hundred eighty-five thousand Assyrians.
PEOPLE: Hezekiah - יהוה YHVH God Holy One of Israel - Eliakim - Shebna - Isaiah - Rabshakeh - Tirhakah - Sennacherib - Angel of the LORD - Adrammelech - Sharezer - Esarhaddon
PLACES: Assyria - Libnah - Lachish - Ethiopia - Judah - Jerusalem - Gozan - Haran - Rezeph - Thelasar - Arpad - Sepharvaim - Hena - Ivah - Zion - Lebanon - Carmel - Nineveh - Armenia
RELATED ARTICLES: Prophet - Amoz - Blasphemy - Cherub - Carmel - Nisroch
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Hezekiah falls ill and Isaiah tells him he will die. Hezekiah prays to God and God adds fifteen years to Hezekiah's life. He shows the king of Babylon everything in his house for which Isaiah confronts him.
PEOPLE: Hezekiah - Isaiah - יהוה YHVH God - Berodachbaladan - Manasseh
PLACES: Judah - Assyria - Babylon
RELATED ARTICLES: Prophet - Amoz - David - Ahaz - Baladan - Eunuch - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah
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Judah turns away from God and worship Baal, engaging in all sorts of abominations. God vows to bring evil upon the land and "wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish."
PEOPLE: Manasseh - יהוה YHVH God - Amon - Josiah
PLACES: Jerusalem - Judah - Israel - Samaria - Egypt - Jotbah
RELATED ARTICLES: Hephzibah - Children of Israel - Hezekiah - Baal - Ahab - Witchcraft - Idolatry - David - Solomon - Moses - Prophet - Garden of Uzza - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah - Meshullemeth - Haruz
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During his godly reign, Josiah institutes repairs of the temple, during which the chief priest, Hilkiah, discovers a book of the law. This book is verified as genuine by the prophetess Huldah, and the penitent Josiah vows to enact all the mitzvah within it.
PEOPLE: Josiah - יהוה YHVH God - Shaphan - Hilkiah - Ahikam - Achbor - Asahiah - Huldah
PLACES: Judah - Jerusalem - Boscath
RELATED ARTICLES: Jedidah - Adaiah - David - Azaliah - Meshullam - High priest - Torah - Michaiah - Prophet - Shallum - Tikvah - Harhas
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Josiah becomes zealous about his iconoclasm. Necho II joins Assyria in attacking Babylon, and Josiah rides out and meets Necho at the Battle of Megiddo but is killed. Jehoahaz is appointed king, but Necho imprisons and deports him. Necho appoints Jehoiakim as the new king.
PEOPLE: Josiah - יהוה YHVH - Hilkiah - Nathan-melech - Necho II - Jehoahaz - Jehoiakim - Eliakim
PLACES: Judah - Jerusalem - Kidron - Bethel - Geba - Beersheba - Topheth - Hinnom - Samaria - Egypt - Assyria - Euphrates - Megiddo - Riblah - Hamath - Libnah - Rumah
RELATED ARTICLES: Kohen - Prophet - Baal - Sodomy - Molech - Ahaz - Manasseh - Solomon - Israel - Ashtoreth - Zidonians - Chemosh - Moabites - Milcom - Ammon - Jeroboam - Nebat - Passover - Witchcraft - Moses - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah - Hamutal - Jeremiah of Libnah - Zebudah - Pedaiah
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Nebuchadnezzar attacks Jerusalem and besieges it, and deports everyone of any worth to Babylon, including the army, the people of Jerusalem, nobles, and craftsmen, as well as the treasures of Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar appoints Zedekiah as the new king of Judah.
PEOPLE: Nebuchadnezzar - Jehoiakim - יהוה YHVH - Jehoiachin - Zedekiah
PLACES: Babylon - Judah - Egypt - Euphrates - Jerusalem - Libnah
RELATED ARTICLES: Chaldees - Syrians - Moabites - Ammon - Prophet - Manasseh - Chronicles of the Kings of Judah - Nehushta - Elnathan - Solomon - Israel - Hamutal - Jeremiah of Libnah - Babylonian captivity
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Nebudchadnezzar sends Nebuzaradan to Jerusalem, where he burns down the temple, palace, houses, and walls. He then deports the treasures of the temple and the population (excepting some of the poor) to Babylon.
PEOPLE: Nebuchadnezzar – Zedekiah – Chaldees – Nebuzaradan – יהוה YHVH – Seraiah – Gedaliah – Ishmael – Johanan -Seraiah – Jehoiachin – Evilmerodach
PLACES: Babylon – Jericho – Riblah – Hamath – Judah – Mizpah – Egypt
RELATED ARTICLES: Babylonian captivity – Solomon – Kohen – Zephaniah – Ahikam – Shaphan – Nethaniah, father of Ishmael – Careah – Tanhumeth the Netophathite – Maachathite – Elishama
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