A Journey through the Bible with Tiglath

65. The 2nd Book of Kings, Chapter 8 to 17 verse 24

We can now hurry along in our journey as the next few chapters are very complicated. Kings follow each other, some serving God, others are pagan.

There are one or two interesting features. All the beginning ot chapter 8 there is a description of what happened to the Shunammite woman whose son had been restored from the dead by Elisha. In chapter 9 there is an interesting account of how Jehu was anointed king over Israel.

Jezebel being thrown

from the Window

The same chapter relates what is going to

happen to king Ahab and his wife Jezebel, You

will remember that Ahab had stolen a vineyard

belonging to a man named Naboth by arranging

to have him killed. Also, that Jezebel had sought

to kill Elisha. Now Jehu goes to Jezreel where

Jezebel was living and when she hears of his

arrrival she paints herself to make herself

attractive This ploy doesn’t work, as Jehu had

the queen thrown out of the window into the

street where she was trampled upon and eaten

by dogs. Verse 35 tells us that when they went

to bury her all they could find was her skull,

feet and the palms of her hands. In chapter 10 Jehu

causes 70 of Ahab’s children to be beheaded. I will not weary you with all the accounts of good and bad kings.

   Chapter 17 is very interesting. At this time, Ahaz is king

of Judah and Hoshea reigns’ over IsraeI in Samaria,

Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, sent his army

against Israel and to placate him Hoshea gives him

presents. Then Shalmaneser discovered that

Hoshea had stopped giving him presents because

he was plotting with the Egyptians against the

Assyrians. Shalmaneser was not having this. so

he captured Hoshea and put him in prison. The Assyrians then besieged Samaria for 3 years - captured it and carried the people away into exile.

Verses 7 - 18 tell how the children of Israel turned against God with pagan

practices and the writers of the chapter consider this to be the why they were

sent into exile.

Next time we shalt discover who were sent to take the place of the children

of Israel in Samaria and why God sent lions to eat some of them.