The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[HisUnfailingLove]

2 Kings 13:13 King James Version (KJV)

"And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel."

 

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 13:14 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, “O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!”[/FONT]

 

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 13:15 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So he took himself a bow and some arrows.[/FONT]

 

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 13:16 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]Then he said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So he put his hand [/FONT]on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.

 

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 13:17 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]And he said, “Open the east window”; and he opened [/FONT]it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot”; and he shot. And he said, “The arrow of the Lord’s deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them.”

 

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 13:18 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]Then he said, “Take the arrows”; so he took [/FONT]them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped.

 

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 13:19 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]And the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed [/FONT]it! But now you will strike Syria only three times.”

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 13:20 (NKJV)

Then Elisha died, and they buried him. And the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land in the spring of the year.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 13:21 (NKJV)

So it was, as they were burying a man, that suddenly they spied a band of raiders; and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha; and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Kings 13:22
New International Version (NIV)

Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz.

 

[mar09]

[h=1]2 Kings 13:23 (NKJV)[/h][FONT=&quot]23 But the Lord was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and regarded them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not yet destroy them or cast them from His presence.[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 13:24 (NKJV)

Now Hazael king of Syria died. Then Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his place.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 13:25 (NKJV)

And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 14:1 (HCSB)
In the second year of Israel's King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, Amaziah son of Joash became king of Judah.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 14:2 (ESV)

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 14:3 (ESV)

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 14:4 (KJV)
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

 

[AuntieAnt]

2 Kings 14:5 (NIV)
After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 14:6 (NIV)

Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin."

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 14:7 (NIV)

He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.