2 Kings

Treated in 90 passages across the library.

The history of the divided kingdoms to their fall. It opens with Elijah taken up in the whirlwind and Elisha's ministry of miracles, then traces the kings of Israel and Judah, good and evil, until Assyria carries Israel captive and Babylon destroys Jerusalem and the temple. The reforms of Hezekiah and Josiah stand out as times of turning back to the Lord.

Chapters

The verses these writers stop at

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Where it is preached

  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 8 — The Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved in So Far as Natural Reason Admits cites 2 Kings 22:8

    …it lay for a short time buried,—from the time when it was found by good King Josiah (2 Kings 22:8; 2 Chron. 34:15),—it has continued in the hands of men, and been transmitted in unbroken…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    Obedience cites 2 Kings 1: 10

    …and his prayer opened and shut heaven; and again he prayed, and fire fell on his enemies. 2 Kings 1: 10. Elijah’s prayer fetched fire from heaven, because, being fervent, it carried fire up to…

  3. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Being of God cites 2 Kings 1:1

    …any indirect means; we should not run ourselves into sin to rid ourselves out of trouble. 2 Kings 1:1. ‘Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-Zebub the…

  4. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Self-Inquiry cites 2 Kings vii. 19

    …Samaritan nobleman,—"If the Lord should make windows of heaven might such a thing be." (2 Kings vii. 19.) But the Lord has opened the windows of heaven. There is more taught now-a-days in…

  5. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites 2 Kings 22:19

    …being tender is meant, his heart being easily moved with religious and pious affection: 2 Kings 22:19, “Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when…

  6. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Assurance cites 2 Kings iv. 26

    …blood could wish, yet I have an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure.” (2 Kings iv. 26; Heb. xiii. 8; Rom. vi. 9; 2 Sam. xxiii. 5.) Assurance will enable a man to praise God…

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