The Best Bible Verses in 2 Kings (ESV)

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2 Kings

•   2 Kings 2:8 “Then Elijah took his cloak and rolled it up and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other”

•   2 Kings 2:11 “behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.”

•   2 Kings 2:24 when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods & tore forty-two of the boys.

•   2 Kings 3:15 Elisha said..."But now bring me a musician.” And when the musician played, the hand of the LORD came upon him."

•   2 Kings 3:16–18 “Thus says the LORD, ‘I will make this dry streambed full of pools.’ …This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD.”

•   2 Kings 5:14 So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God...and he was clean.

•   2 Kings 6:5-6 “his axe head fell into the water…Then the man of God …cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.”

•   2 Kings 6:16 “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

•   2 Kings 9:22 “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”

•   2 Kings 10:16 “And he said, ‘Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.’”

•   2 Kings 10:27 “And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.”

•   2 Kings 10:31 “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart.”

•   2 Kings 12:2 “Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.”

•   2 Kings 12:4 “the money that a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD”

•   2 Kings 13:21 “the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, &as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived &stood on his feet.”

•   2 Kings 14:6 “each one shall die for his own sin.”

•   2 Kings 15:3–4 “he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD…Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away.”

•   2 Kings 16:2–3 “Ahaz…even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out”

•   2 Kings 17:7–8 “this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God…and walked in the customs of the nations”

•   2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD warned Israel & Judah by every prophet & every seer, saying, ‘Turn from your evil ways & keep my commandments’”

•   2 Kings 17:14 “But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.”

•   2 Kings 17:18 “Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.”

•   2 Kings 17:25 “they did not fear the LORD. Therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.”

•   2 Kings 17:29 “But every nation still made gods of its own”

•   2 Kings 17:33 “So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations”

•   2 Kings 17:41 "these nations feared the LORD & also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, & their children’s children”

•   2 Kings 18:4 “he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it”

•   2 Kings 18:6 "he held fast to the LORD. He did not depart from following him"

•   2 Kings 18:7 And the LORD was with him; wherever he went out, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.

•   2 Kings 18:12 “They neither listened nor obeyed.”

•   2 Kings 19:1 “As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes & covered himself with sackcloth & went into the house of the LORD.”

•   2 Kings 19:19 “So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone.”

•   2 Kings 19:30 “And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.”

•   2 Kings 19:35 “And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians.”

•   2 Kings 20:1 “Thus says the LORD, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’”

•   2 Kings 20:5–6 “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. …I will add fifteen years to your life.”

•   2 Kings 20:20 “the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city”

•   2 Kings 21:5–6 “And he [Manasseh] built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. …”

    “…And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers”

•   2 Kings 21:13 “I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.”

•   2 Kings 21:22 “He [Amon] abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.”

•   2 Kings 22:2 “he [Josiah] did what was right in the eyes of the LORD…and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.”

•   2 Kings 22:7 “But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.”

•   2 Kings 22:8 “And Hilkiah the high priest said…’I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD.’”

•   2 Kings 22:13 “Go, inquire of the LORD for me, & for the people, & for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found.”

•   2 Kings 22:13 “For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book”

•   2 Kings 23:2 "he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.”

•   2Kings23:3 the king stood by the pillar &made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD &to keep his commandments..

    ...w/all his heart &all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written...And all the people joined in the covenant.”

•   2 Kings 23:25 “[Josiah] turned to the LORD with all his heart & with all his soul & with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses”

•   2 Kings 24:12–13 “The king of Babylon…carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house”

•   2 Kings 25:9-10 “he burned the house of the LORD &the king’s house &all the houses of Jerusalem …broke down the walls around Jerusalem.”