2 KINGS
OUTLINE OF CONTENTS
-  1  
-  2  - 
- Elijah taken up in a windstorm (1-18) 
- Elisha heals Jericho’s water (19-22) 
- Bears kill young boys from Bethel (23-25) 
 
-  3  
-  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  
-  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) 
- 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  
- 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) 
- 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)