12/09/2011

Annotated Outline of 2 Kings


2 Kings
  1. Reign of Ahaziah, ninth king of Israel: two years (2 Ki. 1; 2 Chr. 20:35; 1 Ki. 22:51-53)  (1:1-18)
    1. Ministry of Elijah (2 Ki.1:1-2:12; 1 Ki. 17:1-21:29)  (1:1-2)
      1. Rebellion of Moab and sickness of Ahaziah  (1:1-2)
    2. Elijah's prediction of Ahaziah's death: twelfth miracle  (1:3-8)
    3. Fire from heaven kills 102 men: thirteenth and fourteenth miracle  (1:9-14)
    4. Elijah personally repeats his prediction to Ahaziah  (1:15-16)
    5. Death of Ahaziah, fulfilling 2 Ki. 1:3-4,15-16: accession of Jehoram, tenth king of Israel  (1:17-18)
  2. Revelation of Elijah's translation  (2:1-25)
    1. Parting the river Jordan: fifteenth miracle  (2:7-8)
    2. Double portion of the Spirit of Elijah given to Elisha: sixteenth miracle  (2:9-10)
    3. Translation of Elijah (cp. Gen. 5:11; Heb. 11:5; 2 Cor. 12:1-3; Rev. 4:1; Jn. 20:17-19; Acts 1:9-11)  (2:11-12)
    4. Ministry of Elisha  (2:13-15)
      1. Elisha's first miracle  (2:13-15)
    5. Unbelief of the prophets  (2:16-18)
    6. Water and barren land healed: second miracle  (2:19-22)
    7. Irreverence cursed: forty-two men killed: third miracle  (2:23-25)
  3. Accession and character of Jehoram, tenth king of Israel  (3:1-27)
    1. Moab rebels: alliance of Jehoram and Jehoshaphat  (3:4-9)
    2. Elisha reproves the alliance of Jehoshaphat with Jehoram  (3:10-15)
    3. Waters without rain and promised victory: fourth and fifth miracles  (3:16-20)
    4. Optical illusion: sixth miracle  (3:21-23)
    5. Defeat of the Moabites, fulfilling 2 Ki. 3:18  (3:24-27)
  4. Increase of the widow's oil: seventh miracle  (4:1-44)
    1. Hospitality of the "great woman" of Shunem  (4:8-11)
    2. Child given to the Shunammite woman: eighth miracle  (4:12-17)
    3. Sickness and death of the son of the Shunammite  (4:18-21)
    4. The Shunammite woman finds Elisha on Mt. Carmel  (4:22-27)
    5. Elisha accompanies the Shunammite woman to her home  (4:28-31)
    6. Elisha resurrects the Shunammite's boy: ninth miracle  (4:32-37)
    7. Elisha heals the noxious pottage: tenth miracle  (4:38-41)
    8. Multiplies food for one hundred men: eleventh miracle  (4:42-44)
  5. Healing Naaman of leprosy: twelfth miracle  (5:1-27)
    1. Naaman returns to reward Elisha and confesses conversion to Israel's God  (5:15-19)
    2. Gehazi's sin of lying and covetousness  (5:20-24)
    3. Discernment and plague: thirteenth and fourteenth miracles  (5:25-27)
  6. Elisha makes iron to swim: fifteenth miracle  (6:1-33)
    1. Eighth Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5, refs.)  (6:8-12)
      1. Revealing secrets: sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth miracles  (6:8-12)
    2. Ninth Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5, refs.)Elisha opens eyes of his servant: nineteenth miracle  (6:13-17)
    3. Elisha blinds and captures the Syrian army singlehanded: twentieth and twenty-first miracles  (6:18-19)
    4. Elisha heals the army of blindness: twenty-second miracle  (6:20-23)
    5. Syrian siege of Samaria: tenth Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5, refs.): cannibalism in Israel  (6:24-29)
    6. Jehoram blames Elisha for his own troubles  (6:30-31)
    7. Elisha uses the gifts of the word of knowledge and discernment (1 Cor. 12:8; 1 Ki. 14:5): twenty-third miracle  (6:32-33)
  7. Food and death to the unbeliever (2 Ki. 7:16-20): twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth miracles  (7:1-20)
    1. Four lepers find the Syrian camp empty and hide riches  (7:3-5)
    2. Confusion and flight of Syrians: twenty-sixth miracle  (7:6-8)
    3. Four lepers report to the king: investigation is made  (7:9-15)
    4. Elisha's prophecy of plenty (2 Ki. 7:1-2) fulfilled  (7:16-20)
  8. Heaven shut for seven years: twenty-seventh miracle  (8:1-29)
    1. Jehoram restores the Shunammite's inheritance  (8:3-6)
    2. Three miracles (twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth) of revelation and knowledge  (8:7-15)
    3. Kings of Judah  (8:16-19)
      1. Reign of Jehoram, fifth king of Judah: eight years (2 Chr. 21)  (8:16-19)
        1. His character  (8:16-19)
    4. Revolt of Edom and Libnah (2 Chr. 21:8-11)  (8:20-22)
    5. Death of Jehoram: accession of Ahaziah, sixth king of Judah (2 Chr. 22)  (8:23-24)
    6. Reign of Ahaziah, sixth king of Judah: one year (2 Chr. 22)  (8:25-27)
      1. His character  (8:25-27)
    7. Ahaziah assists Joram of Israel in wars (2 Chr. 22:5-7): eleventh Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5)  (8:28-29)
  9. Reign of Jehu, eleventh king of Israel: twenty-eight years (2 Ki. 9-10)  (9:1-37)
    1. His anointing: thirty-first miracle of Elisha  (9:1-3)
    2. Commission of Jehu to destroy all of Ahab's house, fulfilling 1 Ki. 21:21  (9:4-10)
    3. Jehu proclaimed king by the army of Israel  (9:11-13)
    4. Jehu slays Jehoram king of Israel: twentieth civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (9:14-26)
    5. Jehu slays Ahaziah, king of Judah  (9:27-29)
    6. Jehu slays Jezebel, fulfilling 1 Ki. 21:23  (9:30-37)
  10. Jehu slays the sons of Ahab, fulfilling 1 Ki. 21:21  (10:1-36)
    1. Jehu slays the princes of Judah, descendants of Ahab's daughter, fulfilling 1 Ki. 21:21- See 2 Ki. 8:18; 2 Chr. 22:7  (10:12-14)
    2. Jehu slays the rest of the house of Ahab, fulfilling 1 Ki. 21:21  (10:15-17)
    3. Jehu slays all Baal worshippers: burns their gods  (10:18-28)
    4. Jehu continues in idol worship yet is rewarded for fulfilling 1 Ki. 21:21  (10:29-31)
    5. God begins judgment upon Israel to destroy them out of the land, fulfilling 2 Ki. 8:12-13; Lev. 26:14-44; Dt. 28:15  (10:32-33)
    6. Death of Jehu: accession of Jehoahaz, twelfth king of Israel (2 Ki. 13:1-9)  (10:34-36)
  11. Kings of Judah (2 Ki. 11:1-12:21)  (11:1-21)
    1. Reign of Athaliah, first and only woman ruler of Judah and Israel: six years (2 Ki. 11; 2 Chr. 22:10-12)  (11:1-3)
      1. Accession and character  (11:1-3)
    2. Rebellion of Jehoiada the priest (2 Chr. 23:1-11): twenty-first civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (11:4-12)
    3. Execution of Athaliah (2 Chr. 23:12-15)  (11:13-16)
    4. Revival through Jehoiada (2 Chr. 23:16-21)  (11:17-21)
  12. Reign of Joash or Jehoash, seventh king of Judah: forty years (2 Chr. 24:1-3)  (12:1-21)
    1. Third good king in Judah (1 Ki. 15:9; 22:43)  (12:1-3)
    2. The faithless priests (2 Chr. 24:4-7)  (12:4-8)
    3. The temple repaired (2 Chr. 24:8-14)  (12:9)
    4. Results of the collection to repair the temple  (12:10-16)
    5. Joash ransoms Jerusalem (2 Chr. 24:23-24): twelfth Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5, refs.)  (12:17-18)
    6. Death of Joash: accession of Amaziah, eighth king of Judah (2 Chr. 24:25-25:28)  (12:19-21)
  13. Kings of Israel and Judah (2 Ki. 13:1-15:31)  (13:1-25)
    1. Reign of Jehoahaz, twelfth king of Israel: seventeen years  (13:1-2)
      1. Accession and character  (13:1-2)
    2. Israel oppressed by Syria: fourteenth Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5, refs.), fulfilling 2 Ki. 8:11-13 (cp. 2 Ki. 10:32-33)  (13:3-7)
    3. Death of Jehoahaz: accession of Joash, thirteenth king of Israel  (13:8-9)
    4. Reign of Jehoash, thirteenth king of Israel: sixteen years (2 Chr. 25:21)  (13:10-11)
      1. Accession and character  (13:10-11)
    5. Death of Joash: accession of Jeroboam II, fourteenth king of Israel  (13:12-13)
    6. Jehoash visits Elisha in his sickness: thirty-second miracle of Elisha-revelation and prophecy  (13:14-19)
    7. Death of Elisha: last miracle-resurrection  (13:20-21)
    8. Victories of Jehoash, king of Israel, fulfilling 2 Ki. 13:17-19; fourteenth Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5, refs)  (13:22-25)
  14. Reign of Amaziah, eighth king of Judah: twenty-five years (2 Ki. 14:1-19)  (14:1-29)
    1. Fourth good king in Judah (2 Chr. 25:1-4)  (14:1-7)
    2. War with Jehoash of Israel (2 Chr. 25:5-25): twenty-second civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (14:8-14)
    3. Death of Jehoash, thirteenth king of Israel, completing the history of 2 Ki. 13  (14:15-16)
    4. Death of Amaziah, eighth king of Judah: accession of Azariah or Uzziah (2 Ki. 15:1-7)  (14:17-22)
    5. Reign of Jeroboam II, fourteenth king of Israel: forty-one years  (14:23-24)
      1. Accession and character  (14:23-24)
    6. Prophecy of Jonah fulfilled: fifteenth Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5, refs.)  (14:25-27)
    7. Death of Jeroboam II: accession of Zachariah (2 Ki. 15:8-12)  (14:28-29)
  15. Reign of Azariah or Uzziah, ninth king of Judah: fifty-two years (2 Ki. 14:20-22; 2 Chr. 26)  (15:1-38)
    1. Fifth good king of Judah (2 Chr. 26:1-5)  (15:1-4)
    2. Leprosy of Uzziah (2 Chr. 26:6-21; Zech. 14:5)  (15:5)
    3. Death of Uzziah: accession of Jotham (2 Chr. 26:22-23)  (15:6-7)
    4. Reign of Zachariah, fifteenth king of Israel: six months (2 Ki. 14:28-29)  (15:8-9)
      1. Accession and character  (15:8-9)
    5. Death of Zachariah, completing the prophecy concerning Jehu in 2 Ki. 10:30: twenty-third civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (15:10-12)
    6. Reign of Shallum, sixteenth king of Israel: one month; twenty-fourth civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (15:13-15)
    7. Reign of Menahem, seventeenth king of Israel: ten years  (15:16-18)
      1. Accession and character; twenty-fifth civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (15:16-18)
    8. First Assyrian invasion of Israel (2 Ki. 15:29; 16:7-18; 17:3-41; 18:13; 2 Chr. 33:11-13)  (15:19-20)
    9. Death of Menahem: accession of Pekahiah  (15:21-22)
    10. Reign of Pekahiah, eighteenth king of Israel: two years  (15:23-24)
      1. Accession and character  (15:23-24)
    11. Death of Pekahiah: twenty-sixth civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (15:25-26)
    12. Reign of Pekah, nineteenth king of Israel: twenty years  (15:27-28)
      1. Accession and character  (15:27-28)
    13. Second Assyrian invasion of Israel (2 Ki. 15:19, refs.)  (15:29)
    14. Death of Pekah: accession of Hoshea (2 Ki. 17): twenty-seventh civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (15:30-31)
    15. Kings of Judah (2 Ki. 15:32-16:20)  (15:32-35)
      1. Reign of Jotham, eleventh king of Judah: sixteen years  (15:32-35)
        1. Sixth good king of Judah (2 Chr. 27)  (15:32-35)
    16. Sixteenth Syrian war (2 Ki. 16:5, refs.)  (15:36-37)
    17. Death of Jotham: accession of Ahaz, twelfth king of Judah (2 Chr. 27:7-9)  (15:38)
  16. Reign of Ahaz, twelfth king of Judah: sixteen years (2 Chr. 28)  (16:1-20)
    1. Accession and character  (16:1-4)
    2. Twenty-eighth civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.): seventeenth and last Syrian war with Judah or Israel (1 Sam. 14:47; 2 Sam. 8:5; 10:1; 1 Ki. 15:20; 20:1, 23; 22:1; 2 Ki. 6:8, 13, 24; 8:28; 12:17; 13:3, 22; 14:25; 15:36)  (16:5-6)
    3. Ahaz makes alliance with Assyria (2 Chr. 28:16-20)  (16:7-8)
    4. Third Assyrian invasion  (16:9)
    5. Ahaz's idolatrous altar (2 Chr. 28:23-25)  (16:10-16)
    6. Ahaz desecrates the temple (2 Ki. 16:14; 2 Chr. 28:21-22)  (16:17-18)
    7. Death of Ahaz: accession of Hezekiah, thirteenth king of Judah (2 Ki. 18-20; 2 Chr. 28:26)  (16:19-20)
  17. Captivity of the ten tribes to Assyria (2 Ki. 15:19, refs.)  (17:1-41)
    1. Reign of Hoshea, twentieth king of Israel: nine years (2 Ki. 15:30)  (17:1-2)
      1. Accession and character  (17:1-2)
    2. Fourth Assyrian invasion of Israel (2 Ki. 15:9, refs.)  (17:3)
    3. Fifth Assyrian invasion of Israel (2 Ki. 15:9, refs.): ten tribes taken captive to Assyria  (17:4-6)
    4. Ten sins for which Israel was taken into captivity  (17:7-12)
    5. God's pleading with Israel only hardened them: eighteen sins of Israel (2 Ki. 17:7)  (17:13-18)
    6. Judah also destined to captivity for her sins  (17:19-20)
    7. God's justice demanded punishment for Israel  (17:21-23)
    8. Assyria reopens the cities of Israel: beginning of the New Testament Samaritans  (17:24)
    9. God sends lions on the new inhabitants of Israel  (17:25-26)
    10. The Assyrian remedy to pacify the God of Israel  (17:27-28)
    11. Continued idolatry of the nations for which God punished Israel  (17:29-41)
  18. Kings of Judah between the captivities of Israel and Judah (2 Ki. 18:1-23:37)  (18:1-37)
    1. Reign of Hezekiah, thirteenth king of Judah: twenty-nine years (2 Ki. 16:19; 2 Chr. 29:1-32:33)  (18:1-3)
      1. Seventh good king of Judah (2 Chr. 29:1-2)  (18:1-3)
    2. Revival under Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:3-31:21)  (18:4-6)
    3. Hezekiah rebels against Assyria (cp. 2 Ki. 16:7,18)  (18:7)
    4. Hezekiah defeats Philistia (cp. 2 Chr. 28:16-19)  (18:8)
    5. Captivity of the ten tribes to Assyria in Hezekiah's fourth year of reign over Judah (2 Ki. 15:19, refs.)  (18:9-12)
    6. End of ten years of peace (2 Ki. 18:9): first invasion of Judah by Assyria (2 Chr. 32; Isa. 36:1; 2 Ki. 15:19, refs.)  (18:13)
    7. Hezekiah submits and pays tribute but not enough  (18:14-16)
    8. Judah insulted (2 Chr. 32:9-16; Isa. 36:4-10)  (18:17-25)
    9. Judah's answer (Isa. 36:11)  (18:26)
    10. Assyria insults God (2 Chr. 32:17-19; Isa. 36:12-21)  (18:27-37)
  19. Hezekiah turns to God for help (Isa. 37:1-4)  (19:1-37)
    1. Isaiah's prophecy of Assyrian defeat (Isa. 37:5-7)  (19:5-7)
    2. Sennacherib defies God (Isa. 37:8-13)  (19:8-13)
    3. Hezekiah again prays (2 Ki. 19:1; 2 Chr. 32:20; Isa. 37:14-20)  (19:14-19)
    4. Isaiah's second prophecy of Assyrian defeat (Isa. 37:21-35; cp. 2 Ki. 19:5-7)  (19:20-34)
    5. Miraculous defeat of Assyria (2 Chr. 32:21; Isa. 37:36), fulfilling 2 Ki. 19:5,20  (19:35-37)
  20. Hezekiah's sickness and prophecy of healing (2 Chr. 32:24-25; Isa. 38:1-6)  (20:1-21)
    1. Miraculous sign of Hezekiah's healing (Isa. 38:7-8)  (20:8-11)
    2. Isaiah's prophecy of Judah's captivity (2 Chr. 32:31; Isa. 39:1-8)  (20:12-19)
    3. Death of Hezekiah: accession of Manasseh (2 Chr. 32:32)  (20:20-21)
  21. Reign of Manasseh, fourteenth king of Judah: fifty-five years (2 Chr. 33:1-20)  (21:1-26)
    1. Accession and sixteen sins (2 Chr. 33:1-10)  (21:1-9)
    2. Prophecy of judgment on Manasseh  (21:10-15)
    3. Continued sins of Manasseh (2 Chr. 33:11-19)  (21:16)
    4. Death of Manasseh: accession of Amon (2 Chr. 33:20)  (21:17-18)
    5. Reign of Amon, fifteenth king of Judah: two years (2 Chr. 33:21)  (21:19-22)
      1. Accession and character  (21:19-22)
    6. Death of Amon: accession of Josiah (2 Chr. 33:24-25): twenty-ninth civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (21:23-26)
  22. Reign of Josiah, sixteenth king of Judah: thirty-one years (2 Chr. 34:1-35:27)  (22:1-20)
    1. Eighth and last good king of Judah (2 Chr. 34:1-7)  (22:1-2)
    2. The temple repaired (2 Chr. 34:8-13)  (22:3-7)
    3. The law discovered (2 Chr. 34:14-17)  (22:8-10)
    4. Sin discovered: true repentance (2 Chr. 34:18-21)  (22:11-14)
    5. Huldah's prophecy of judgment on Judah (2 Chr. 34:22-28)  (22:15-20)
  23. Law read to the people (2 Chr. 34:29-30)  (23:1-37)
    1. Josiah's covenant with God (2 Chr. 34:31-32)  (23:3)
    2. Twenty other reformations (2 Chr. 34:33)  (23:4-6)
      1. A. Destroys Baal worship and his priests  (23:4-6)
    3. B. Destroys sodomite houses  (23:7)
    4. C. Destroys high places of idolatry  (23:8-9)
    5. D. Destroys fire worship to Molech  (23:10)
    6. E. Removes sun worship and its dedicated horses and chariots  (23:11)
    7. F. Destroys idolatrous altars  (23:12)
    8. G. Destroys other idol gods  (23:13-14)
    9. H. Destroys Jeroboam's altar and high place at Bethel, fulfilling 1 Ki. 13:2  (23:15-18)
    10. Destroys high places in all Samaria and kills the idolatrous priests  (23:19-20)
    11. J. Restores the Passover (2 Chr. 35:1-19)  (23:21-23)
    12. K. Destroys all traffic with demons and household gods  (23:24-25)
    13. Judah doomed despite the reformations of Josiah  (23:26-28)
    14. Death of Josiah: accession of Jehoahaz  (23:29-30)
    15. Reign of Jehoahaz, seventeenth king of Judah: three months (2 Chr. 36:1-4)  (23:31-32)
      1. Accession and character  (23:31-32)
    16. Fourth war of Israel and Egypt (2 Ki. 23:29-30; Ex. 14:5-28; 1 Ki. 14:25-30)  (23:33-35)
      1. Death of Jehoahaz: accession of Jehoiakim (2 Chr. 36:5-7)  (23:33-35)
    17. Captivity of Judah to Babylon (2 Ki. 23:36-25:30; 2 Chr. 36:5-23)  (23:36-37)
      1. Reign of Jehoiakim, eighteenth king of Judah: eleven years (2 Chr. 36:5-7)  (23:36-37)
  24. Jehoiakim's submission and rebellion against Babylon  (24:1-20)
    1. The beginning of the end of the kingdomof Judah: first deportation of Judah to Babylon (2 Chr. 36:5-7)  (24:2-4)
    2. Death of Jehoiakim: accession of Jehoiachin (2 Chr. 36:8-10)  (24:5-6)
    3. Babylon conquers Egypt  (24:7)
    4. Reign of Jehoiachin, nineteenth king of Judah: three months (2 Chr. 36:8-10): accession and character  (24:8-9)
    5. Second deportation to Babylon (2 Chr. 36:5-10)  (24:10-16)
    6. Reign of Zedekiah, twentieth and last king of Judah: eleven years (2 Chr. 36:11-21): accession and character (2 Chr. 36:11-14)  (24:17-19)
    7. Zedekiah rebels against Babylon (2 Chr. 36:13)  (24:20)
  25. Fifth and last war of Babylon and Israel (2 Ki. 24:6-10; Gen. 14; Judg. 3:8)  (25:1-30)
    1. Defeat of Israel: Zedekiah carried to Babylon (2 Chr. 36:15-21)  (25:4-7)
    2. Jerusalem and the temple destroyed (2 Chr. 36:19)  (25:8-10)
    3. Third and final deportation of Judah to Babylon (2 Chr. 36:15-21)  (25:11-12)
    4. Temple vessels and metals taken to Babylon (2 Chr. 36:18)  (25:13-17)
    5. High priest and others executed by Nebuchadnezzar  (25:18-21)
    6. Gedaliah made governor of the remaining Jews  (25:22-24)
    7. Thirtieth and last civil strife in Israel (Josh. 22:1; Judg. 8:1; 9:1; 12:1; 20:1; 1 Sam. 22:11; 23:13; 24:1; 26:2; 2 Sam. 2:12; 3:1; 15:1; 20:41; 1 Kings 12:16; 15:16,27; 16:9,15,21; 2 Ki. 9:14; 11:4; 14:8; 15:10,13,16,25,30; 16:5; 21:23)  (25:25)
    8. Flight of the remnant to Egypt  (25:26)
    9. Release of Jehoiachin in Babylon  (25:27-30)

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