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Ahaziah falls through his roof, and sends messengers to ask the god Beelzebub if he will recover from the injury. Elijah is sent by an angel to intercept the messengers and to tell them that Ahaziah is doomed. Ahaziah twice sends men to Elijah, and the men are killed by divine fire. The third time, the leader begs Elijah to listen, and an angel tells Elijah to go with them. He tells Ahaziah that he will die, which comes true.

PEOPLE: Ahaziah - Angel of the Lord - Elijah - יהוה YHVH God - Jehoram

PLACES: Moab - Israel - Samaria - Judah

RELATED ARTICLES: Ahab - Beelzebub - Ekron - Tishbite - Jehoshaphat - Chronicles of the Kings of Israel

Elijah, in company with Elisha, approaches the Jordan River. He rolls up his mantle and strikes the water. The water immediately divides and Elijah and Elisha cross on dry land. Suddenly, a chariot of fire appears and Elijah is lifted up to heaven in a whirlwind. As Elijah is lifted up, his mantle falls to the ground and Elisha picks it up.

PEOPLE: יהוה YHVH God - Elijah - Elisha - Spirit of the Lord

PLACES: Gilgal - Bethel - Jericho - Jordan River - Mount Carmel - Samaria

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Moab raises its army against Israel. Jehoram combines the forces of Israel, Judah, and Edom, and they consult Elisha for help. Elisha reluctantly agrees to assist them and prophecies water and victory.

PEOPLE: Jehoram - Jehoshaphat - יהוה YHVH - Mesha - Elisha

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Elisha tells a widow to fill as many vessels as possible with oil and sell it, and a small amount of oil fills all the containers that she can find. Elisha feeds a hundred people with twenty loaves. In Shunem, Elisha raises a boy from the dead.

PEOPLE: Elisha - יהוה YHVH God - Gehazi

PLACES: Shunem - Mount Carmel - Gilgal - Baalshalisha|Shalishah

RELATED ARTICLES: Prophet - Prayer - Resurrection

Elisha orders Naaman to wash in the Jordan sevenfold, which angers Naaman, since there were closer rivers, but he is persuaded to wash in the Jordan anyway and is cured. Gehazi, overcome with avarice, solicits, and obtains in the Elisha's name "a talent of silver and two changes of garments" from Naaman.

PEOPLE: Naaman - יהוה YHVH God - Elisha - Gehazi

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The king of Syria sends an army to kill Elisha. Elisha, by a prayer, strikes the army blind, then leads them to Samaria, where he restores their sight. He then orders the king of Israel not to harm them.

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Elisha prophecies that the famine will end and the inflation reverse. Four lepers discover that the Aramaeans have fled their camp. The Aramaean camp is plundered, ending the famine.

PEOPLE: Elisha - יהוה YHVH

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Elisha prophesies that Hazael will become the new king of Aram and slaughter the Israelites. Hazael smothers the king with a water soaked cloth and becomes king. When Jehoram, king of Judah dies, his son, Ahaziah rules over Judah. Ahaziah supports Joram, king of Israel at the battle of Ramoth-Gilead against Hazael. While visiting the convalescent Joram, Jehu attacks him, and he is fatally wounded.

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Elisha sends a prophet to anoint Jehu as the king. Once the prophet does this, Jehu organises a conspiracy against Joram, king of Israel. Jehu persuades palace eunuchs to

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Jehu challenges Israel to oppose him, but frightened by him they submit and in accordance with his wishes, they decapitate all the descendants of Ahab. Jehu also slaughters every descendant in Jezreel and kills the kinsmen of Ahaziah. During Jehu's reign, Hazael conquers Gilead.

PEOPLE: Jehu - יהוה YHVH - Elijah - Jehonadab - Hazael - Jehoahaz

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Athaliah sets out to take the throne. Her sister hides Joash in the temple. Six years later, the priest summons the captain of the guards and Carian mercenaries and shows them Jehoash. The priest has the guards and mercenaries defend the temple while he anoints Joash as king. The priest has Athaliah killed. The people obliterate the temple of Baal.

PEOPLE: Athaliah - Jehosheba - Joram - Joash - יהוה YHVH God - Jehoiada - Mattan

PLACES: Sur

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Jehoash of Judah orders that all money brought to the temple be put toward its repairs. He gives all the sacred relics and gold in the temple to Hazael as tribute to keep him from besieging Jerusalem. His servants conspire against him and murder him.

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Jehoash asks Elisha for help against Hazael. Elisha prophecies three victories against Hazael. Elisha then dies and is buried. During another funeral, raiders attack, so the mourners drop the body into Elisha's grave and flee, but when the body touches Elisha's, the man comes back to life. Hazael is succeeded by Ben-hadad, who is defeated thrice by Jehoash, fulfilling Elisha's promise.

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Amaziah succeeds his father as king of Judah, and slaughters those who killed his father but spares their descendants. Amaziah then conquers the Edomites. Amaziah challenges Jehoash of Israel. The two sides meet in battle, but Judah is defeated.

PEOPLE: Jehoash of Israel - Amaziah - יהוה YHVH God - Jeroboam II - Azariah - Jonah - Zachariah

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The reigns of Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah are documented. Tiglath-pileser invades Israel, capturing several cities and deporting their populations. Hoshea conspires against Pekah, killing him and becoming king in his place.

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The alliance between Aram and Israel besiege Ahaz, and Edom is able to recover Elath, so Ahaz responds by becoming a vassal of Tiglath-pileser, who is subjugating Israel. Tiglath-pileser then attacks Damascus (capital of Aram), killing Rezin and deporting the inhabitants to another part of Assyria.

PEOPLE: Pekah - Ahaz - יהוה YHVH - Rezin - Tiglath-pileser - Urijah - Hezekiah

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Hoshea is forced to become a vassal of the Assyrians. However, Hoshea fails to send the annual tribute, and sends envoys to Sais, the Egyptian king, for help. Shalmaneser occupies Israel and besieges Samaria, and the nine tribes of Israel are completely deported to other regions of the Assyrian empire.

PEOPLE: Hoshea - יהוה YHVH God - Shalmaneser - So - Tribe of Judah

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Hezekiah rebels against Assyria and partially subjugates the land of the Philistines. However, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, captures several cities in Judah.

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Hezekiah sends messengers to Isaiah who prophecies that God will protect Jerusalem for the sake of the promise made to David. That night an angel kills one hundred eighty-five thousand Assyrians.

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Hezekiah falls ill and Isaiah tells him he will die. Hezekiah prays to God and God adds fifteen years to Hezekiah's life. He shows the king of Babylon everything in his house for which Isaiah confronts him.

PEOPLE: Hezekiah - Isaiah - יהוה YHVH God - Berodachbaladan - Manasseh

PLACES: Judah - Assyria - Babylon

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Judah turns away from God and worship Baal, engaging in all sorts of abominations. God vows to bring evil upon the land and "wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish."

PEOPLE: Manasseh - יהוה YHVH God - Amon - Josiah

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During his godly reign, Josiah institutes repairs of the temple, during which the chief priest, Hilkiah, discovers a book of the law. This book is verified as genuine by the prophetess Huldah, and the penitent Josiah vows to enact all the mitzvah within it.

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PLACES: Judah - Jerusalem - Boscath

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Josiah becomes zealous about his iconoclasm. Necho II joins Assyria in attacking Babylon, and Josiah rides out and meets Necho at the Battle of Megiddo but is killed. Jehoahaz is appointed king, but Necho imprisons and deports him. Necho appoints Jehoiakim as the new king.

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Nebuchadnezzar attacks Jerusalem and besieges it, and deports everyone of any worth to Babylon, including the army, the people of Jerusalem, nobles, and craftsmen, as well as the treasures of Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar appoints Zedekiah as the new king of Judah.

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PLACES: Babylon - Judah - Egypt - Euphrates - Jerusalem - Libnah

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Nebudchadnezzar sends Nebuzaradan to Jerusalem, where he burns down the temple, palace, houses, and walls. He then deports the treasures of the temple and the population (excepting some of the poor) to Babylon.

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