1. Class #6 Introduction to 2nd Kings
The Kingdom Period
Class #6
Introduction to 2nd Kings

2. 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

3. An Outline of 1st & 2nd Kings

4. Dan
ISRAEL
Samaria  
Penuel 
Shechem
Bethel 
JUDAH

5. SIDON
ISRAEL
JUDAH
ASA
Jehoshaphat
Jehoram
Ethbaal
(Itto-Baal)
OMRI
Jezebel
Ahab
Ahaziah
Joram
Athaliah
Ahaziah
Joash

6. • Nineveh
• Jerusalem

7. Assyrian
Terror
Tactics

8. Samaria

9. 2 Kings 17:6
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.

10. 2 Kings 17:7-8
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.

11. Hezekiah’s Reformation
Religious Reform
Envoys from Merodach-Baladan
Revolt against Assyria
Hezekiah’s Tunnel

12. 2 Kings 19:35-36
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.

13. 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.

14. Reform under Josiah
Religious Reform
Fall of Assyria

15. Scythians
Carchemish 
Medes
Assyria
Megiddo 
Babylon
EGYPT

17. 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 25:9).