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1 4. Who were the kings of the North? Nadab Baasha Elah Zimri Omri Ahab 16:31 Ahaziah 22:53 5. Who were the kings of the South? Abijah 15:3 Evil Asa 15:11 good Jehoshaphat 22:41; 43 good 6. Who was Elijah? page 82 17:1 17: : Who was Elisha 19:19 8. How evil was Ahab? 21 2 Kings 1 5: Famous last words, Moab moats, and seven ducks in a muddy river 1. Why was Elijah so angry with Ahaziah? 1:3 Isa. 55:1-2 "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labour on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. 1: :16 Application: We need to learn to 2. What were Elisha s most famous miracles? 2:19 2:23 3:16 Archeology: The Mesha stone tells the story of this king of Moab s rebellion against Israel in a slightly different light. 4:1 4:35 4:41

2 page 83 4:43 Note to remember: It is easy to see why people thought Jesus was a prophet. Many of his miracles reminded them of Elijah or Elisha. 3. Who was Naaman? Commander of Israel s Owner of an Israelite A man motivated by the A man unable to A man offended Application: Would Naaman have been healed if he had refused to immerse himself? There will always be some who are offended by the simplicity of God s message for spiritual healing. Baptism is not done to earn or merit salvation but it is the point of obedience that we receive a cleansing through faith in Christ Jesus. 4. What were Gehazi s sins? 5:20 5:22, 25 5:22 5:26

3 2 Kings 6 10: Floating axes, leaping lepers, Elisha s tears, mad drivers 1. Why so much worry over an axhead? 6:5 page 84 Food for thought: How do you treat others property? How would you feel if you wrecked your roommates car, especially if the car was without collision insurance? 2. To what did Elisha s servant need to open his eyes? 6:16-17 Discussion: What are some things to which we need to open our eyes? a. Eph. 6:10 b. c. 3. What did it mean to besiege a city like Samaria? Casemate walls and fortifications made it costly (in terms of human lives) to take a city without great loss of life. Ancient armies would surround a city and cut off its supply of food until the people would starve to death and surrender. 6:26 One woman was so desperate she ate her own child and was upset that her friend wouldn t keep her promise to eat her child. Discussion: to what might we compare a siege today? 4. What can we learn from the leper? 7:4 7:9 The lepers were convinced that if they kept it all to themselves, something bad would happen to them. 5. Why did Elisha cry? 8:12 6. What did Jehu do in his zeal for the Lord? 9:6 9:14 9:30 10:1 10:18 10:29

4 2 Kings 11 20: Going, going, gone 1. Who was Athaliah? 11:1 page 85 11:12 11:14 Application: Satan will so distort truth so as to make the right thing to do seem as treason. 2. For what is Joash to be remembered? 11:21 He was just 7 years old when he became king 12:2 He did what was right 12:6 He took up collections to repair the temple. 12:17 He bought protection from Hazael. 3. What did it mean or symbolize when Jehoash only struck with the arrows three times? 13:19 Application: Some prayers are answered only partially because we only pray for them partially. God can do more than we think or imagine. How much do we think and imagine? a. Eph 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, b. James 4:2-3 You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4. What unusual thing happened with Elisha s bones? 13:21 5. Who prophesied during the days of Jeroboam II? 14:25 Jonah Jonah 1 Jonah 2 Jonah 3 Jonah 4 Jonah in the NT a. b. Mt. 12:39 6. What did Azariah (Uzziah) do to become leprous? 2 Chron 26:16 Application: We mustn't let power go to our heads.

5 page Of what did Ahaz make a copy? 16:9 16:10 Application: Why do we put so much effort into dressing like and keeping up with people who are following the soon to be doomed gods of materialism? Rom 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. 8. Who was the last king of Israel? 17:1 Defeated and brought into captivity by the Assyrians in 722 B.C. 9. List the sins of Israel that caused her demise? 17: What should be remembered about Hezekiah? 18:3 18:4 18: :3 19:4 19:14 19:35 Archeology: In the Taylor Prism, Sennacrib boasts that he shut up Hezekiah in Jerusalem like a bird in a cage. He was unable to boast, however, that he defeated Hezekiah. 20:3 20:13 20:19 20:20

6 page 87 2 Kings 21 26: Too little, too late 1. What were the evil things that Manasseh did? Note: If Hezekiah had not lived 15 more years, wouldn t have been born. Would there have been and heir to the throne? 21:3 He rebuilt the high places and practiced 21:4 He corrupted temple worship with, and. 21:6 He sacrificed his own in the fire in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom 21:9 He did more evil than the nations that God s people had displaced. 2 Chronicles 33:11 He was led away with a He repented God him and brought him The consequences of his actions remained. Application: Even the worst of men can be saved and forgiven. The deeds of our life do have their consequences. You shouldn t feel cheated if you have tried always to be faithful to God. Be thankful that you haven t brought damage to yourself or others. 2. Who was Josiah? 22:1 Son of Amnon Became king at 22:8 Hilkiah the priest found the 22:11 Josiah tore his robs when he heard the Law read. 22:14 16 Huldah, the prophetess responded for God 23:3 He renewed 23:4 He took serious action against idolatry: a. v 4 removed articles of Baal, Asherah and starry hosts from the temple and burned them. b. v 5 fired pagan priests c. v 6 took down Asherah pole from inside the temple. d. v 7 tore down the quarters of male shrine prostitutes inside the temple. e. v 10 he desecrated Topheth, altar to Molech in the Valley of Ben- Hinnom. (this place would become known as the fire of hell in the day of Jesus, because children were once sacrificed to Molech there.it would become a garbage dump.) f. v 11 burned chariots dedicated to the sun g. v 14 desecrated pagan sites with human bones. h. v 15 even tore down the Bethel altar that Jeroboam had erected. i. v 21 authentically celebrated the Passover for the first time in years. j. v 25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did--with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.

7 page What were the last days of Judah like? 23:36 They had evil kings like Jehoiakim, Jehoiakin and Zedekiah 24:1 They were warned by the not to against Babylon and did anyway. the prophet lived and prophesied in these days: a. Beginning at the time of Josiah, 526 B.C. b. Jeremiah 1:6 young when called. c. Jer. 2:13 Two sins: d. Jer. 3:10 partial repentance e. Jer. 4:3-4 call to change f. Jer. 4:18 you ve brought this on yourselves g. Jer. 5:1 not even one righteous person h. Jer. 5:19 you ll be taken to a foreign land i. Jer. 18:1 like the potter s clay j. Jer. 20:9 Jeremiah wearied of proclaiming k. Jer. 29:11 God s discipline and plans are for their good l. Jer. 37, 38 Jeremiah was thrown in prison and into a cistern. m. Jer. 43 Against Jeremiah s prophecy they flee to Egypt taking him with them. So they are back to where they started from. There were deportations: a. First in 605 B.C. included b. 24:13 a partial deportation in 597 B.C included. c. 24:20 rebelled. Counting on Egypt he broke his vassal relationship with Babylon. 25:2 Zedekiah was defeated, blinded and taken captive. The prophets told of day the captives would return (c. 70 years later). They settled in Babylon, raised their families, participated in government. a. Daniel b. Esther c. Zerubbabel d. Ezra e. Nehemiah 2 Chronicles gives a more detailed account of Judah s rebellion and eventual fall. a. 2 Chronicles 36:15-17 The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling-place. But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy. He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and spared neither young man nor young woman, old man or aged. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.

8 Esther page 89 Key Text: 1. Esther 4:14 Introduction: 1. Title: Esther is the Persian word for Her Hebrew name was 2. Author: Familiar with the, and of the Persians Similar in style to Ezra and Nehemiah Perhaps or 3. Date: c B.C The events took place between B.C. 1:3 third year of Ahasuerus (Xerxes) was 483 B.C. Herodotus: 2:16 corresponding to the time Esther was chosen as queen. 4. Themes: Chapter 1: Queen Vashti a Feminist? 1. Xerxes had a 2. Vashti had her own v 9 3. Drunk, he called Vashti in to v The lawyers, fearing a feminist uprising (v 17), counsel v Application: Chapter 2: Beauty Pageant, Who s the Fairest in the Land? 1. A search for the prettiest women in the land was made. v 2 2. Hadassah (Esther), orphan and niece to Mordecai, had a (v 7) and was. 3. After 10 months of, she became queen, keeping her Jewish origin a. vv 17, Mordecai 5. 2:15 She asked for 6. Application:

9 Chapter 3: Haman wants blood 1. vv 2, 6 Haman hated the Jews because Mordecai wouldn t 2. v 7 He rolled the dice ( ) to select a day for open season on the 3. vv 8-9 He obtained the approval of Xerxes to exterminate the Jews. 4. Application: page 90 Chapter 4: Queen for a reason 1. Mordecai calls for 2. Esther is afraid of dying. v Mordecai is persuasive. vv v Application: Chapter 5:The Scepter Extended 1. v 2 Esther comes into the king and he extends his. 2. Esther plans one banquet followed by another. 3. Haman brags but bothered by Mordecai. 4. Application: Chapter 6: Restless Night that changes the fate of the Jews 1. vv 1-3 The king couldn t sleep and begins 2. vv 6, 9 Haman suggest an honor to reward the King s favored man, thinking 3. Haman honored horseback Mordecai, This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor! v Haman went home ashamed, only to be 5. Application: Chapter 7: Haman Hanged 1. Esther exposes Haman. v 4 2. Haman throws himself at Esther. v 7 3. Xerxes is enraged and misinterprets his actions. v Haman is hung on his own gallows. vv Application: Chapters 8 10: End of Story. 1. The Jews are allowed to defend themselves and defeat their enemies. 2. Esther is given all of Haman s property. Mordecai is highly honored. 3. Application:

10 Job page 91 Introduction: 1. Key text: Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face. 2. Title: Iyyob is Hebrew for Job was not a a. Genesis 46:13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub (Job) and Shimron. b. Eze 14:14 even if these three men--noah, Daniel and Job--were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign LORD. c. Jas 5:11 As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. 3. Date of the events: most likely a contemporary of 4. Themes: 5. Theology: This book is a slap in the face to those who connect suffering with sin. It was common to believe: We suffer because we sin The amount we suffer is directly proportionate to how evil we are. We have it much better than we deserve and have no right to complain. Chapter One: Put to the test 1. Who was Job? v 5 a. 7 sons, 3 daughters b sheep c camels d. 500 oxen e. 500 donkeys He was an example of

11 2. What did God and Satan say to each to other? Satan God? Satan Job is good just because God, Go ahead, but don t touch him 3. Satan s destructive work Sabeans take oxen and donkeys and kill servants Fire (not from God) burned the sheep Chaldeans got the camels A mighty wind collapsed the house and the kids were killed. 4. Job s Response vv page 92 Chapter Two: Satan turns up the heat 1. God and Satan dialogue God: He still maintains his integrity Satan: 2. Job s personal suffering 3. Job s Response: v 10? 4. Job s friends visit. Chapters 3 37: Discouraging words from Job s friends 1. You ve sinned, that s why this terrible thing has happened to you. 2. Job: No one s perfect, but I didn t do anything to deserve this. Chapter God tells Job, this is beyond your comprehension 2. 40: : :12

2 Kings As the King Goes So Goes the Nation

2 Kings As the King Goes So Goes the Nation By Timothy Sparks TimothySparks.com Scope of Events The first half of 2 Kings (chs. 1-13) is largely a record of Elisha's ministry of 66 years, following Elijah's