Introduction

Outline

1 Kings

1. Solomon’s Rise to Power 1 Kings 1:1-53

2. Solomon’s Consolidation of Power 1 Kings 2:1-46

3. Beginnings as a Pious, Wise King 1 Kings 3:1-28

4. Royal Impressiveness 1 Kings 4:1-34

5. Temple Preparations 1 Kings 5:1-18

6. Temple Construction 1 Kings 6-7

7. The Temple Dedicated and Made Operational 1 Kings 8:1-66

8. An Interface of Theological Warning and Self-Congratulations
1 Kings 9:1-28

9. The Global Economist 1 Kings 10:1-29

10. When the Chickens Come Home to Roost 1 Kings 11:1-43

11. An Urgent Political Settlement 1 Kings 12:1-33

12. Ominous Prophetic Inscrutability 1 Kings 13:1-34

13. Rival Kings, in Failure and in Death 1 Kings 14:1-31

14. A Series of Undistinguished Monarchs 1 Kings 15:1-32

15. Northern Upheavals 1 Kings 15:33-16:34

16. Elijah, Man of Power for Life 1 Kings 17:1-24

17. Troubler of Israel 1 Kings 18:1-46

18. Letdown and Revival 1 Kings 19:1-21

19. War, Diplomacy, and Prophetic Zeal 1 Kings 20:1-43

20. A Clash over Land 1 Kings 21:1-29

21. Ahab’s Last Venture 1 Kings 22:1-53

1. One More, King over Prophet 2 Kings 1:1-18

2. A Transition in Prophetic Authority 2 Kings 2:1-25

3. A Miscalculated War 2 Kings 3:1-27

4. Elisha as a Transformative Force 2 Kings 4:1-44

5. The Leprosy of Naaman, Healed and Reassigned
2 Kings 5:1-27

6. Iron Floats 2 Kings 6:1-7

7. Hidden Allies 2 Kings 6:8-23

8. Good News Amid the Vagaries of War 2 Kings 6:24-7:20

9. Land Restored 2 Kings 8:1-6

10. The Sorry Future of Three Kings 2 Kings 8:7-29

11. A Bloody, Prophet-Propelled Revolution 2 Kings 9:1-37

12. The End of the Bloody Reign of Jehu 2 Kings 10:1-36

13. Beginning Again with a Child King 2 Kings 11:1-20

14. The Long Reign of Jehoash 2 Kings 11:21-12:21

15. Kings, Prophet, and War in the North 2 Kings 13:1-25

16. On Amaziah and Jereboam II 2 Kings 14:1-29

17. Two Judean Kings, a Series of Northern Nondescripts
2 Kings 15:1-38

18. Ahaz as a Willing Accomodator 2 Kings 16:1-20

19. The End of the Northern Kingdom 2 Kings 17:1-41

20. Hezekiah’s Reform and the Assyrian Threat 2 Kings 18:1-37

21. A Final Threat and Complete Deliverance 2 Kings 19:1-37

22. The End of Hezekiah: The Long-Term End of Jerusalem
2 Kings 20:1-21

23. Manasseh and His Son 2 Kings 21:1-26

24. Josiah, Man of Torah 2 Kings 22:1-20

25. The Rule and Death of Josiah 2 Kings 23:1-30

26. Four Pitiful Kings 2 Kings 23:31–25:7

27. The Final Humiliation 2 Kings 25:8-21

28. Two Proximate Conclusions 2 Kings 25:22-30

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