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2nd Kings

• Kingdoms in Crisis

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Purpose of the Books of Kings

• To Answer the Question How did we get here?
• To Give a Warning of the Consequences of Sin.
• To show our need for the ultimate King of
  Righteousness

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An Outline of 1st 2nd Kings
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Dan
ISRAEL
Samaria
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Penuel
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Shechem
Bethel
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JUDAH
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SIDON
ISRAEL
Ethbaal (Itto-Baal)
OMRI
Ahab
Jezebel
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Nineveh
Jerusalem
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Assyrian Terror Tactics
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Samaria
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2 Kings 176

• In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria
  captured Samaria and carried Israel away into
  exile to Assyria. and settled them in Halah and
  Habor, on the river of Gozarx and in the cities
  of the Medes.

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2 Kings 177-8

• Now this came about, because the sons of Israel
  had sinned against the Lord their God, who had
  brought them up from the land of Egypt from under
  the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and their had
  feared other gods 8 and walked in the customs
  of the nations whom the Lord had driven out
  before the sons of Israel, and in the customs of
  the kings of Israel which they had introduced.

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Hezekiahs Reformation

• Religious Reform
• Envoys from Merodach-Baladan
• Revolt against Assyria
• Hezekiahs Tunnel

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2 Kings 1935-36

• Then it happened that night that the angel of
  the Lord went out, and struck 185,000 in the camp
  of the Assyrians and when men rose early in the
  morning, behold, all of them were dead.
• So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and
  returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

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Taylor Prism

• As for Hezekiah, the Jew, who did not submit to
  my yoke, 46 of his strong walled cities, as well
  as the small cities in their neighborhood, which
  were without number, by escalade and bringing up
  siege engines... Himself, like a caged bird, I
  shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city.

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Reform under Josiah

• Religious Reform
• Fall of Assyria

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Scythians
Carchemish
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Medes
Assyria
Megiddo
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Babylon
EGYPT
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And he burned the house of the LORD, the king's
house, and all the houses of Jerusalem even
every great house he burned with fire. (2 Kings
259).
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