OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

1

• Elijah foretells Ahaziah’s death (1-18)

2

• Elijah taken up in a windstorm (1-18)

  • Elisha gets Elijah’s official garment (13, 14)

• Elisha heals Jericho’s water (19-22)

• Bears kill young boys from Bethel (23-25)

3

• Jehoram, king of Israel (1-3)

• Moab rebels against Israel (4-25)

• Moab defeated (26, 27)

4

• Elisha multiplies a widow’s oil (1-7)

• A Shunammite woman’s hospitality (8-16)

• Woman rewarded with a son; he dies (17-31)

• Elisha resurrects the dead son (32-37)

• Elisha makes stew edible (38-41)

• Elisha multiplies bread (42-44)

5

• Naaman healed of leprosy by Elisha (1-19)

• Greedy Gehazi struck with leprosy (20-27)

6

• Elisha makes axhead float (1-7)

• Elisha versus the Syrians (8-23)

  • Eyes of Elisha’s attendant opened (16, 17)

  • Syrians mentally blinded (18, 19)

• Famine in besieged Samaria (24-33)

7

• Elisha foretells end of famine (1, 2)

• Food found at abandoned Syrian camp (3-15)

• Elisha’s prophecy fulfilled (16-20)

8

• Shunammite woman’s land restored to her (1-6)

• Elisha, Ben-hadad, and Hazael (7-15)

• Jehoram, king of Judah (16-24)

• Ahaziah, king of Judah (25-29)

9

• Jehu anointed as king of Israel (1-13)

• Jehu kills Jehoram and Ahaziah (14-29)

• Jezebel killed; dogs eat her flesh (30-37)

10

• Jehu kills the house of Ahab (1-17)

  • Jehonadab joins Jehu (15-17)

• Baal worshippers killed by Jehu (18-27)

• Summary of Jehu’s reign (28-36)

11

• Athaliah usurps the throne (1-3)

• Jehoash secretly made king (4-12)

• Athaliah killed (13-16)

• Jehoiada’s reforms (17-21)

12

• Jehoash, king of Judah (1-3)

• Jehoash repairs the temple (4-16)

• Syrian invasion (17, 18)

• Jehoash killed (19-21)

13

• Jehoahaz, king of Israel (1-9)

• Jehoash, king of Israel (10-13)

• Elisha tests Jehoash’s zeal (14-19)

• Elisha’s death; his bones resurrect a man (20, 21)

• Elisha’s final prophecy fulfilled (22-25)

14

• Amaziah, king of Judah (1-6)

• War with Edom and with Israel (7-14)

• Death of Jehoash of Israel (15, 16)

• Death of Amaziah (17-22)

• Jeroboam II, king of Israel (23-29)

15

• Azariah, king of Judah (1-7)

• Israel’s last kings: Zechariah (8-12), Shallum (13-16), Menahem (17-22), Pekahiah (23-26), Pekah (27-31)

• Jotham, king of Judah (32-38)

16

• Ahaz, king of Judah (1-6)

• Ahaz bribes the Assyrians (7-9)

• Ahaz copies pagan altar (10-18)

• Death of Ahaz (19, 20)

17

• Hoshea, king of Israel (1-4)

• Fall of Israel (5, 6)

• Israel exiled because of apostasy (7-23)

• Foreigners brought into Samaritan cities (24-26)

• Samaritans’ mixed religion (27-41)

18

• Hezekiah, king of Judah (1-8)

• Review of Israel’s fall (9-12)

• Sennacherib invades Judah (13-18)

• The Rabshakeh taunts Jehovah (19-37)

19

• Hezekiah seeks God’s help through Isaiah (1-7)

• Sennacherib threatens Jerusalem (8-13)

• Hezekiah’s prayer (14-19)

• Isaiah conveys God’s answer (20-34)

• Angel slays 185,000 Assyrians (35-37)

20

• Hezekiah’s sickness and recovery (1-11)

• Messengers from Babylon (12-19)

• Death of Hezekiah (20, 21)

21

• Manasseh, king of Judah; his bloodshed (1-18)

  • Jerusalem to be destroyed (12-15)

• Amon, king of Judah (19-26)

22

• Josiah, king of Judah (1, 2)

• Instructions for temple repair (3-7)

• Book of the Law found (8-13)

• Huldah’s prophecy of calamity (14-20)

23

• Josiah’s reforms (1-20)

• Passover celebrated (21-23)

• Josiah’s further reforms (24-27)

• Josiah’s death (28-30)

• Jehoahaz, king of Judah (31-33)

• Jehoiakim, king of Judah (34-37)

24

• Jehoiakim’s rebellion and death (1-7)

• Jehoiachin, king of Judah (8, 9)

• First deportation to Babylon (10-17)

• Zedekiah, king of Judah; his rebellion (18-20)

25

• Nebuchadnezzar’s siege of Jerusalem (1-7)

• Jerusalem and its temple destroyed; second deportation (8-21)

• Gedaliah made governor (22-24)

• Gedaliah murdered; people flee to Egypt (25, 26)

• Jehoiachin released in Babylon (27-30)