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When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he said to them, “Why have you returned [so soon]?”

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?

Then Elijah said to Ahaziah, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Since you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word?—therefore you will not leave the bed on which you lie, but will certainly die.’”

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon Happen

He said, “You have asked for a difficult thing. However, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.”

Verse ConceptsHard TasksSeeing People

Then Elisha went to the spring of water and threw the salt in it and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘I [not the salt] have purified and healed these waters; there shall no longer be death or barrenness because of it.’”

Verse ConceptsBad WaterOvercoming DeathRestoring ThingsGod Healing Our LandHealing And ComfortInfertilitypot

Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What business do you have with me? Go to the prophets of your [wicked] father [Ahab] and to the prophets of your [pagan] mother [Jezebel].” But the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the Lord has called these three kings together to be handed over to Moab.”

Verse ConceptsThree MenWhat Have We In Common?Given Into One's HandsGod Will Cause DefeatProphets Of Other Gods

And they said, “This is blood! Clearly the kings have fought together, and have killed one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil [and the plunder of the dead soldiers]!”

Verse ConceptsPlunderingLifebloodKilling One Another

Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have [of value] in the house?” She said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a [small] jar of [olive] oil.”

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?Debthelppothelping

Then you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out [the oil you have] into all these containers, and you shall set aside each one when it is full.”

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsPraying Behind Closed Doors

Now he said to Gehazi, “Say to her now, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us; what can I do for you? Would you like to be mentioned to the king or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I live among my own people [in peace and security and need no special favors].”

Verse ConceptsGratitudeRelativesDoing One's Work

His servant said, “How am I to set [only] this before a hundred [hungry] men?” He said, “Give it to the people so that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”

And he brought the letter to the king of Israel. It said, “And now when this letter comes to you, I will have sent my servant Naaman to you, so that you may heal him of his leprosy.”

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyHealing Lepersgays

Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent word to the king, asking, “Why have you torn your clothes? Just let Naaman come to me, and he shall know that there is a [true] prophet in Israel.”

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesKnowing PeopleThose Who Tore ClothesMan Of GodNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Then his servants approached and said to him, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he has said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”

Verse ConceptsServants, GoodNamed Prophets Of The LordExamples Of Good Servants

And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘Just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitHillsLying, Examples OfPeople Giving ClothesSons Of The ProphetsTwo Other ThingsTwo Other Men

Then he went in and stood before his master. Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”

Verse ConceptsAmbiguityMotionlessnessStaying PutWhere From?

Elisha answered, “You shall not kill them. Would you kill those you have taken captive with your sword and bow? Serve them bread and water, so that they may eat and drink, and go back to their master [King Ben-hadad].”

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfGenerosity, HumanOpposition, To Sin And EvilWater

Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”

Verse ConceptsHiding From PeopleDuring One Night

Now the king had appointed the royal officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the [city] gate; and the [starving] people trampled him at the gate [as they struggled to get through for food], and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to him.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfTrampling PeopleDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsOther Supporting

When you arrive there, look for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and have him arise from among his brothers, and take him into an inner room.

Verse ConceptsPrivate Rooms

Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and flee and do not delay.”

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking Kings

When he arrived, the captains of the army were sitting [outside]; and he said, “I have a message for you, O captain.” Jehu said, “To which one of us?” And he said, “For you, O captain.”

Verse ConceptsGood News

So Jehu got up, and they went into the house. And he poured the oil on Jehu’s head and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israel

You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, [who have died] at the hands of Jezebel.

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodRetributionRevenge, And RetaliationResponsibility For Blood ShedKilling ProphetsProphets Killedjezebel

And they said, “It is a lie; tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’”

Verse ConceptsAnointing Kings

Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the crowd with Jehu as he approached, and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Send a horseman to meet them and have him ask, ‘Do you come in peace?’”

Verse ConceptsFortificationsWatchman

So the horseman went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king: ‘Do you come in peace?’” And Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Rein in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger approached them, but he has not returned.”

Verse ConceptsWatchmanUnrelated Things

Then Joram sent out a second horseman, who approached them and said, “Thus says the king: ‘Do you come in peace?’” Jehu replied, “What have you to do with peace? Rein in behind me.”

Verse ConceptsUnrelated Things

As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Is it well, Zimri, your master’s murderer?”

Verse ConceptsKilling Kings

When a messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”

Verse ConceptsTwo Of Body Parts

Now, summon unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal; whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it with trickery, in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

Verse ConceptsFollowers Of BaalProphets Of Other Gods

Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside for himself and said, “If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, the one who lets him go shall forfeit his own life for that man’s life.”

Verse ConceptsEquality Of PunishmentThe Number EightyEighties

The Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executing what is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab in accordance with everything that was in My heart, your sons (descendants) shall sit on Israel’s throne to the fourth generation.”

Verse ConceptsGenerationsSittingThrone

Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money for the dedicated things which is brought into the house of the Lord, in current money, both the money of each man’s assessment [for all those bound by vows], and all the money which any man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house (temple) of the Lord,

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsMoney For The TempleMoney ManagementSaving Moneypriests

And he said, “Open the window to the east,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” And he shot. And Elisha said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram (Syria); for you will strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have destroyed them.”

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of Openingdeliverancesyria

So the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Aram until you had destroyed it. But now you shall strike Aram only three times.”

Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessActing Three TimesOvercoming Hard Timessyria

You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has lifted you up [in pride]. Enjoy your glory but stay at home; for why should you plunge into misery so that you, even you, would fall [at my hand], and Judah with you?”

Verse ConceptsArrogance, Characterizes The WickedBusybodiesProud People

The covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget; you shall not fear other gods.

Verse ConceptsForgetting GodNot ForgettingDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godscovenant

Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear.” So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah [a tribute tax of] three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

Verse ConceptsCoinageTreatyWe Have Sinned

Now have I come up against this place to destroy it without the Lord’s approval? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CountriesGod's Orders

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad [in Aram]? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah [in the valley of the Euphrates]? Have they rescued Samaria (Israel’s capital) from my hand?

Verse ConceptsBoasters

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This is a day of distress and anxiety, of punishment and humiliation; for children have come to [the time of their] birth and there is no strength to rescue them.

Verse ConceptsAbortionBirth Not Being Possible

Isaiah said to them, “Say this to your master: ‘Thus says the Lord, “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled (blasphemed) Me.

Listen, you have heard what the Assyrian kings have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

Did the gods of the nations whom my forefathers destroyed rescue them—Gozan and Haran [of Mesopotamia] and Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

Verse ConceptsFalse Religion

Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim [of the ark in the temple], You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Creation OfHeaven And EarthJudgment SeatKingdomsUniverseNo Other Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have devastated the nations and their lands

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsSuffering, Nature Of

and have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not [real] gods but [only] the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they [could destroy them and] have destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsCreativityStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stone

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘I have heard your prayer to Me regarding Sennacherib king of Assyria.’

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidGod Answered PrayerGod Paid Attention To Me


‘Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice,
And haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfPride, Results OfVoicesAudacity


‘Through your messengers you have taunted and defied the Lord,
And have said [boastfully], “With my many chariots
I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
I cut down its tall cedar trees and its choicest cypress trees.
I entered its most distant lodging, its densest forest.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConfidenceClimbingChariotsCedarWorldly Ambition ExamplesFalse Confidence, Examples OfFelling Trees


“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of [the Lower Nile of] Egypt.”

Verse ConceptsdrynessPeople Drying Things UpFeet In ActionFailing Rivers


‘Have you not heard [asks the God of Israel]?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you [king of Assyria] should [be My instrument to] turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Verse ConceptsGod, Purpose OfDestruction Of CitiesGod Planning Of OldUnhearingGod's Plans


‘Because of your raging against Me,
And because your arrogance and complacency have come up to My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose,
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back [to Assyria] by the way that you came.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodHorsesHumiliationNosesRestraintAnger Of God, Examples OfWicked Described AsDivine RestraintsProud People

“Please, O Lord, remember now [with compassion] how I have walked before You in faithfulness and truth and with a whole heart [entirely devoted to You], and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfCommitment, to GodWeepingOthers MourningPeople Mourning Catastrophe

“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father (ancestor): “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I am healing you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekGod HealsGod Answered PrayerGod Paid Attention To MeRecovery

Isaiah said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything that is in my house (palace). There is nothing in my treasuries that I have not shown them.”

‘Behold, the time is coming when everything that is in your house, and that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonTaking Possessions

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Is it not good, if [at least] there will be peace and security in my lifetime?”

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsSearchingResignationTime Of Peace

He made a carved image of the [goddess] Asherah and set it up in the house (temple), of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem [in the tribe of Judah], which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My Name forever.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Davidelection, privileges ofSculptureSacrilegeServing AsherahA Place For God's NameChristmas Tree

And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will be careful to act in accordance with everything that I have commanded them, and with all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.”

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger, since the day their fathers came from Egypt to this day.’”

Verse ConceptsFalse Religion To This Day

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, so that he may count the entire amount of money brought into the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtCounting MoneyDoorkeepersFinances

And have them deliver it to the hands of the workmen who have been appointed over the house of the Lord, and have them give it to the workmen who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages of the house—

Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house (temple) of the Lord.” Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

Verse ConceptsArchivesScribesReading The ScripturesThe Law Given To Israel

Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to him: “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have placed it in the hands of the workmen who have been appointed over the house of the Lord.”

Verse ConceptsWages

“Go, inquire of the Lord for my sake and for the sake of the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book which has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to and obeyed the words of this book, so as to act in accordance with everything that is written concerning us.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness Of

Because they have abandoned (rejected) Me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore My wrath burns against this place, and it will not be quenched.”’

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodRenunciationQuenchingIncense Offered AmissDifferent Gods

But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord, you shall say this to him: ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, “Regarding the words which you have heard,

because your heart was tender (receptive, penitent) and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I said against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHumilityRepentance, Examples OfRenewed HeartPenitentConviction Of SinAfflicted Saints, Examples OfHumbling OneselfHumble YourselfChanging Yourself

Then Josiah said, “What is this monument (gravestone) that I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

Verse ConceptsBurial Of Unnamed People

The Lord said, “I will also remove Judah from My sight, just as I have removed Israel; and will reject this city which I have chosen, this Jerusalem, and the house, of which I said, ‘My Name [and the pledge of My Presence] shall be there.’”

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfRejection Of God, Results OfDriven From God's PresenceA Place For God's Name