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2 KINGS 22-24
THE GODLY KING (22:1-23:30):
Doing God's work (22:1-7):
Discovering God's Word (22:8-20; 23:1-30):
The priest (22:8-13):
The prophecy (22:14-20):
Regarding Judah (22:15-17):
Regarding Josiah (22:18-20):
The pledge (23:1-3):
The purge (23:4-20, 24-25):
He removes all the pagan objects from the Temple (23:4, 6-7).
He removes the pagan priests and reinstalls the Lord's priests (23:5, 8-9).
He destroys the pagan shrines and altars (23:10-15, 19-20, 24).
He burns the bones of some dead pagan prophets, fulfilling a prophecy made during Jeroboam's reign (23:16-18; see 1 Kings 13:1-2).
The Passover (23:21-23):
The punishment (23:25-30):
THE GODLESS KINGS (23:31-24:20)
Jehoahaz, Judah's seventeenth ruler (23:31-34)
His perversion (23:31-32):
His prison sentence (23:33-34):
Jehoiakim, Judah's eighteenth ruler (23:35-24:7)
The raising of Neco's tribute (23:35-37):
The reign of Nebuchadnezzar (24:1, 7):
The raiders from nearby lands (24:2-4):
The rest of Jehoiakim's reign (24:5-6):
Jehoiachin, Judah's nineteenth ruler (24:8-17):
Zedekiah, Judah's twentieth ruler (24:18-20):