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2 Kings · read by E.A. Johnston
54 verses, in order. Only the verses E.A. read aloud are shown.
2 Kings 2
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And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.Read from KJV · How to Preach with Power
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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 · How to Preach with Power
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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 · How to Preach with Power
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Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. "Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?" he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.Read from KJV · How to Preach with Power
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From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"Read from KJV · Like a Bear Let Loose
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Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.Read from KJV · Like a Bear Let Loose
2 Kings 4
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One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.Read from KJV · Mustard on a Blue Suit
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Then the woman said to her husband, "Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.Read from KJV · The Power of a Holy Life
2 Kings 6
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"Where did it fall?" asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.Read from KJV · And the Iron Did Swim
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When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, "Oh, my master, what are we to do?"Read from KJV · Lost in Hell S Horrors Demons Darkness Damnation
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"Do not be afraid," Elisha answered, "for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."Read from KJV · A Sea of Blood
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Then Elisha prayed, "O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see." And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.Read from KJV · Haunted House is Living Hell
2 Kings 9
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Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.Read from KJV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
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When you arrive, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go in, get him away from his companions, and take him to an inner room.Read from KJV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
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Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, 'This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and run. Do not delay!"Read from KJV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
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and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. "I have a message for you, commander," he said. "For which of us?" asked Jehu. "For you, commander," he replied.Read from KJV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
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So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anoint you king over the LORD's people Israel.Read from KJV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
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And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.Read from KJV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
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The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.Read from KJV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
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I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.Read from ESV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
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And on the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour Jezebel, and there will be no one to bury her.'" Then the young prophet opened the door and ran.Read from KJV · Needed a God-Sent Prophet
2 Kings 13
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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 · Ministry of Power
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Elisha told him, "Take a bow and some arrows." So Jehoash took a bow and some arrows.Read from KJV · Ministry of Power
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Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow." So the king put his hand on the bow, and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.Read from KJV · Ministry of Power
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"Open the east window," said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, "Shoot!" So he shot. And Elisha declared: "This is the LORD's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, for you shall strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them."Read from KJV · Ministry of Power
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Then Elisha said, "Take the arrows!" So he took them, and Elisha said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground!" So he struck the ground three times and stopped.Read from KJV · Prophet with God-Sized Vision
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But the man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times."Read from KJV · Ministry of Power
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And Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.Read from KJV · Ministry of Power
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Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.Read from KJV · Ministry of Power
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 · America's Santa Claus God
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All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other godsRead from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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They served idols, although the LORD had told them, "You shall not do this thing."Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, "Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets."Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained,Read from KJV · America's Santa Claus God
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So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.Read from NKJV · Bible Survey 1 Sam - 2 Chron
2 Kings 21
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And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,Read from KJV · America: Reprobate Nation?
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"Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,Read from KJV · America: Reprobate Nation?
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this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.Read from KJV · America: Reprobate Nation?
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I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.Read from KJV · America: Reprobate Nation?
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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 · America: Reprobate Nation?
2 Kings 22
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Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!" And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.Read from KJV · Lost Message of the Church
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And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, "Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD."Read from KJV · Lost Message of the Church
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Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.Read from KJV · Lost Message of the Church
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When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothesRead from NKJV · Bible Survey 1 Sam - 2 Chron
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and commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:Read from KJV · Lost Message of the Church
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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 KJV · Lost Message of the Church