brucesbiblepage posted: " Daily Bible Reading: 2 Kings 1-3 Book: 2 Kings Author: Not stated and unknown; one early tradition claimed Jeremiah wrote 1 and 2 Kings. Date: Covering about 300 years from the 800 BCs on, 2 Kings was probably written sometime after the Baby"
Author: Not stated and unknown; one early tradition claimed Jeremiah wrote 1 and 2 Kings.
Date: Covering about 300 years from the 800 BCs on, 2 Kings was probably written sometime after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
In ten words or less: Both Jewish nations are destroyed for their disobedience to God.
"From Know Your Bible, published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. Used by permission"
2 Kings 1:1-4 (NKJV) Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, "Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury." But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?' Now therefore, thus says the LORD: 'You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.' " So Elijah departed.
2 Kings 5:13-14 (NKJV) And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more than, when he says to you, 'Wash and be clean?" So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean
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