The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings
by F. W. Farrar
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- Expositor's Bible
- W. Robertson Nicoll, D.D., LL.D.
- THE EXPOSITORS' BIBLE
- Edited by W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, D.D., LL.D. New and Cheaper Edition. Printed from original plates Complete in every detail. Uniform with this volume Price 50 cents per volume. (If by mail add 10 cents postage) OLD TESTAMENT VOLUMES
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- THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS
- F. W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S.
- HODDER & STOUGHTON
- GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
- CONTENTS
- THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS
- CHAPTER I
- AHAZIAH BEN-AHAB OF ISRAEL
- b.c. 855-854 2 Kings i. 1-18
- CHAPTER II
- THE ASCENSION OF ELIJAH
- 2 Kings ii. 1-18
- CHAPTER III
- ELISHA
- 2 Kings ii. 1-25
- CHAPTER IV
- THE INVASION OF MOAB
- 2 Kings iii. 4-27
- CHAPTER V
- ELISHA'S MIRACLES
- 2 Kings iv. 1-44
- CHAPTER VI
- THE STORY OF NAAMAN
- 2 Kings v. 1-27
- CHAPTER VII
- ELISHA AND THE SYRIANS
- 2 Kings vi. 1-23
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE FAMINE AND THE SIEGE
- 2 Kings vi. 24-vii. 20
- CHAPTER IX
- THE SHUNAMMITE AND HAZAEL
- 2 Kings viii. 1-6, 7-15. (Circ. b.c. 886.)
- CHAPTER X
- (1) JEHORAM BEN-JEHOSHAPHAT OF JUDAH
- b.c. 851-843
- (2) AHAZIAH BEN-JEHORAM OF JUDAH
- b.c. 843-842 2 Kings viii. 16-24, 25-29
- CHAPTER XI
- THE REVOLT OF JEHU
- b.c. 842 2 Kings ix. 1-37
- CHAPTER XII
- JEHU ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE
- b.c. 842-814 2 Kings x. 1-17
- CHAPTER XIII
- FRESH MURDERS—THE EXTIRPATION OF BAAL-WORSHIP (b.c. 842)
- 2 Kings x. 12-28
- CHAPTER XIV
- ATHALIAH (b.c. 842-836)—JOASH BEN-AHAZIAH OF JUDAH (b.c. 836-796)
- 2 Kings xi. 1-xii. 21
- CHAPTER XV
- AMAZIAH OF JUDAH
- b.c. 796-783 (?) 2 Kings xiv. 1-22
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE DYNASTY OF JEHU
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE DYNASTY OF JEHU (continued)—JEROBOAM II
- b.c. 781-740 2 Kings xiv. 23-29
- CHAPTER XVIII
- AMOS, HOSEA, AND THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
- 2 Kings xiv. 23-29; xv. 8-12
- CHAPTER XIX
- AZARIAH-UZZIAH (b.c. 783(?)-737) JOTHAM (b.c. 737-735)
- 2 Kings xv. 1-7, 32-38
- CHAPTER XX.
- THE AGONY OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM.
- 2 Kings xv. 8-31
- CHAPTER XXI
- HOSHEA, AND THE FALL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM
- b.c. 734-725 2 Kings xvii. 1-41
- CHAPTER XXII
- THE REIGN OF AHAZ
- b.c. 735-715 2 Kings xvi. 1-20
- CHAPTER XXIII
- ISAIAH AND AHAZ
- 2 Kings xvi
- CHAPTER XXIV
- THE APOSTASIES OF AHAZ
- 2 Kings xvi. 1-18
- Probable Dates.
- CHAPTER XXV
- HEZEKIAH
- b.c. 715-686[480] 2 Kings xviii
- CHAPTER XXVI
- HEZEKIAH'S SICKNESS, AND THE EMBASSY FROM BABYLON
- 2 Kings xx. 1-19
- CHAPTER XXVII
- HEZEKIAH AND ASSYRIA
- b.c. 701 2 Kings xviii. 13—xix. 37.
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- THE GREAT DELIVERANCE
- b.c. 701 2 Kings xix. 1-37
- CHAPTER XXIX
- MANASSEH
- b.c. 686-641 2 Kings xxi. 1-16
- AMON[657]
- b.c. 641-639 2 Kings xxi. 19-26
- CHAPTER XXX
- JOSIAH
- b.c. 639-608[665] 2 Kings xii., xxiii
- CHAPTER XXXI
- JOSIAH'S REFORMATION
- 2 Kings xxii. 8-20, xxiii. 1-25
- NOTE TO CHAPTER XXXI.
- "Jehovah is our Lawgiver."—Isa. xxxiii. 22.
- CHAPTER XXXII
- THE DEATH OF JOSIAH
- b.c. 608 2 Kings xxiii. 29, 30
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- JEHOAHAZ
- b.c. 608 2 Kings xxiii. 31-33
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- JEHOIAKIM
- b.c. 608-597 2 Kings xxiii. 36-xxiv. 7
- CHAPTER XXXV
- JEHOIACHIN
- b.c. 597 2 Kings xxiv. 8-16
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- ZEDEKIAH, THE LAST KING OF JUDAH
- b.c. 597-586 2 Kings xxiv. 18-xxv. 7
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- JEREMIAH AND HIS PROPHECIES
- Jer. i. 1-v. 31
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
- b.c. 586 2 Kings xxv. 1-21
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- GEDALIAH
- b.c. 586 2 Kings xxv. 22-30
- EPILOGUE
- APPENDIX I
- THE KINGS OF ASSYRIA, AND SOME OF THEIR INSCRIPTIONS.
- APPENDIX II
- INSCRIPTION IN THE TUNNEL OF SILOAM
- APPENDIX III
- WAS THERE A GOLDEN CALF AT DAN?
- APPENDIX IV
- DATES OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH, AS GIVEN BY KITTEL AND OTHER MODERN CRITICS[920]
- FOOTNOTES:
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