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# 📖 2 Kings
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> [[#📖 Summary of Book]]
> [[#📚 Genre]]
> [[#🙋♂️ Who is the Author]]
> [[#⌛️ When Was it Written]]
> [[#🧭 Theme Verse]]
> [[#🧭 Major Themes]]
> [[#📅 Outline of Book]]
> **[[#✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes]]**
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflections]]
> [[#📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights]]
## 📖 Summary of Book
> The Book of 2 Kings continues the history of Israel and Judah from the ministry of Elijah’s successor, Elisha, to the fall of both kingdoms. It records repeated cycles of reform and rebellion under various kings, most of whom failed to follow the Lord faithfully. Despite God’s patience and continual prophetic warnings, Israel fell to Assyria in 722 BC and Judah to Babylon in 586 BC. The book demonstrates that persistent disobedience leads to judgment, but God remains faithful to His covenant promises.
#### 📚 Genre
- Historical Narrative
- Theological History
#### 🙋♂️ Who is the Author
- Unknown (traditionally associated with prophetic historians, possibly Jeremiah)
#### ⌛️ When Was it Written
- Approximately 560–540 BC (during or shortly after the Babylonian Exile)
## 🧭 Theme Verse
>2 Kings 17:13 (NET)
“The LORD solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers, saying, ‘Turn back from your evil ways and observe my commandments and statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you through my servants the prophets.’”
## 🧭 Major Themes
• Covenant unfaithfulness
• Prophetic warning and authority
• God’s patience and justice
• Idolatry and syncretism
• National repentance and reform
• Divine judgment
• The consequences of compromise
• God’s faithfulness to David’s line
• The power of God displayed through prophets
• The certainty of God’s word
## 📅 Outline of Book
- 1:1–2:12 — Elijah’s Final Ministry and Departure
- Elijah’s last miracles
- Transfer of authority to Elisha
- Elijah taken to heaven
- 2:13–8:15 — Elisha’s Ministry
- Elisha’s miracles
- Healing of Naaman
- God’s provision and power
- 8:16–13:25 — Kings and Conflict
- Decline in both kingdoms
- Continued idolatry
- Prophetic involvement
- 14:1–17:41 — Fall of the Northern Kingdom
- Reigns of Jeroboam II and successors
- Assyrian invasion
- Destruction of Samaria
- 18:1–25:30 — Judah’s Last Years and Exile
- Hezekiah’s reforms
- Sennacherib’s invasion
- Josiah’s revival
- Fall of Jerusalem
- Babylonian captivity
## ✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes
- [[2 Kings 01]]
- [[2 Kings 02]]
- [[2 Kings 03]]
- [[2 Kings 04]]
- [[2 Kings 05]]
- [[2 Kings 06]]
- [[2 Kings 07]]
- [[2 Kings 08]]
- [[2 Kings 09]]
- [[2 Kings 10]]
- [[2 Kings 11]]
- [[2 Kings 12]]
- [[2 Kings 13]]
- [[2 Kings 14]]
- [[2 Kings 15]]
- [[2 Kings 16]]
- [[2 Kings 17]]
- [[2 Kings 18]]
- [[2 Kings 19]]
- [[2 Kings 20]]
- [[2 Kings 21]]
- [[2 Kings 22]]
- [[2 Kings 23]]
- [[2 Kings 24]]
- [[2 Kings 25]]
## 🙏 Devotional Reflections
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## 📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights
**Further Study**.
1. Paul R. House, 1, 2 Kings (New American Commentary)
2. Iain W. Provan, 1 and 2 Kings (NIV Application Commentary)
3. Raymond B. Dillard and Tremper Longman III, An Introduction to the Old Testament
**Interesting Insights**.
1. 2 Kings records the fall of both Israel and Judah.
2. Elisha performs more recorded miracles than any other prophet.
3. Naaman, a Syrian commander, is healed of leprosy in 2 Kings 5.
4. The Assyrians destroyed Samaria in 722 BC.
5. Hezekiah’s tunnel still exists in Jerusalem today.
6. Josiah led one of the greatest spiritual revivals in Israel’s history.
7. The Book of 2 Kings explains exile as a result of covenant disobedience.
8. The Babylonians destroyed Solomon’s Temple in 586 BC.
9. Jeremiah’s ministry overlaps with the final events of the book.
10. The book ends with hope as Jehoiachin is released from prison in Babylon.
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