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2 Kings · read by Chuck Smith
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2 Kings 1
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So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
2 Kings 2
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Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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And Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan." But Elisha replied, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on.Read from KJV · Elijah Taken Into Heaven
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Then a company of fifty of the sons of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing Elijah and Elisha as the two of them stood by the Jordan.Read from KJV · Elijah Taken Into Heaven
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After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?" "Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit," Elisha replied.Read from KJV · Elijah Taken Into Heaven
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"You have requested a difficult thing," said Elijah. "Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so."Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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As Elisha watched, he cried out, "My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!" And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.Read from KJV · Elijah Taken Into Heaven
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"Bring me a new bowl," he replied, "and put some salt in it." So they brought it to him,Read from ESV · Elijah Taken Into Heaven
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And the waters there have been healthy to this day, according to the word spoken by Elisha.Read from KJV · Elijah Taken Into Heaven
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And Elisha went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.Read from NASB1995 · Elijah Taken Into Heaven
2 Kings 3
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In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat's reign over Judah, Jehoram son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twelve years.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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"Alas," said the king of Israel, "for the LORD has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab!"Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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But now, bring me a harpist. " And while the harpist played, the hand of the LORD came upon ElishaRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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This is a simple matter in the sight of the LORD, and He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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The next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water suddenly flowed from the direction of Edom and filled the land.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
2 Kings 4
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And the mother of the boy said, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
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She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 1-4
2 Kings 5
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But Elisha replied, "As surely as the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it." And although Naaman urged him to accept it, he refused.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 5-8
2 Kings 8
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In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 5-8
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And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 5-8
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Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 5-8
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So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 5-8
2 Kings 9
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Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.Read from KJV · The Unfailing Word
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He looked up at the window and called out, "Who is on my side? Who?" And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.Read from KJV · The Unfailing Word
2 Kings 12
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And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
2 Kings 13
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Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
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When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, "My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
2 Kings 14
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
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But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: "A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.Read from KJV · The Folly of Meddling
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And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his home.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
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He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.Read from KJV · The Folly of Meddling
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and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
2 Kings 15
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
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As for the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, along with all his accomplishments, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 1 Kings 9-16
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As for the rest of the acts of Pekah, along with all his accomplishments, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 1 Kings 9-16
2 Kings 16
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In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
2 Kings 17
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In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.Read from KJV · For This Cause
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Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
2 Kings 18
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. No king of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.Read from KJV · The Power of Prayer
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Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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Then Hilkiah's son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
2 Kings 19
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So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: 'He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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'I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
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One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
2 Kings 20
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I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Isaiah 36-40
2 Kings 21
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My Name."Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
2 Kings 22
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When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothesRead from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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"Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us."Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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And Huldah said to them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Tell the man who sent youRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
2 Kings 23
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And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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"Let him rest," said Josiah. "Do not let anyone disturb his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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But in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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For the LORD had said, "I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, 'My Name shall be there.'"Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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From Megiddo his servants carried his body in a chariot, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.Read from ESV · Reforms of the Covenant
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
2 Kings 24
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.Read from KJV · Reforms of the Covenant
2 Kings 25
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So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ezekiel 21-25
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And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah's eleventh year.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52
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The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Jeremiah 50-52