• From the Division of the Kingdom to the Captivity of Israel. 1 Kings 12:1-2 Kings 17:41; 2 Chron. 10:1-28:27.
• The Chronology of Israel.
• Review: The Reign of Solomon.
• Review: The History of Israel.
• Review: Judah from the Division of the Kingdom Till the Fall of Israel.

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FIRST KINGS
AND
SECOND CHRONICLES.

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FROM THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM
TO THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL.

I. Ki. xii. 1-II. Ki. xvii. 41; II. Chron. x. 1-xxviii. 27.

§ I. THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM. I. Ki. xii. 1-24.

1. A Petition of the People to Rehoboam. xii. 1-4; II. Chron. x. 1-5.

• Why to Shechem?
• Did Jeroboam hear that the meeting had been? or was to be? 2.
• How was Solomon's yoke grievous? Cf. v. 13-18.

2. Rehoboam's Response. 5-15; II. Chron. x. 6-15.

• Where did the people go? 5.
• What the theory of the policy adopted?
• How brought about by the Lord? 15.

3. The Division Consummated. 6-20; II. Chron. x. 16-19.

• Why send Adoram? and why was he stoned? Cf. iv. 6.
• Why did Judah stand by Rehoboam?
• Why Jeroboam selected for king? 20, cf. xi. 21.

4. Rehoboam Forbidden to Attempt Coercion. 21-24;
II. Chron. xi. 1-4.

• Who was Shemaiah? 22.

§ II. THE REIGN OF JEROBOAM. xii. 25-xiv. 20.

1. He Builds Two Cities and Establishes Illegal Worship.
xii. 25-33. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why Shechem and Penuel? 25.
• Why his fear of reaction among the people? 27.
• Why adopt worship of a calf? 28.
• Why at Dan? and why at Beth-el? 29.
• Why make priests of common [62] people? 31, cf. II. Chron. xi. 13, 14.
• Why put his feast in the eighth month? 33.

2. The Worship at Beth-el Denounced. xiii. 1-10.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• When was this? 1, cf. xii. 33.
• Why denounce the altar and not the image? 2.
• What character exhibited by the prophet?

3. The Prophet Deceived and Slain. 11-25.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Why the old prophet so urgent with his invitation? 18.
• Why had he not denounced the sin?
• Why the young man slain and the old one spared?
• Why the young man slain when misled by a prophet? Cf. Gal. i. 8.
• When will believing a lie prove fatal?

4. Further Conduct of the Old Prophet. 26-32.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Why the carcase not eaten nor the ass disturbed? 28.
• Why wish to be buried with him? 31.
• How the altar and the high places regarded?

5. Jeroboam's Obduracy. 33, 34. (Not in Chronicles.)

6. His Sin Denounced and His Ruin Predicted. xiv. 1-20.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Inconsistency of the wife's mission? 2, 3.
• Why did Ahijah anticipate her? 6.
• Where was Ahijah's home?
• Where was Jeroboam's later residence? 17.
• Why the change from Shechem?
• What this book of chronicles? 19. [63]

§ III. REIGNS OF REHOBOAM, ABIJAM AND ASA, OVER JUDAH.xiv. 21-xv. 24.

• Relation of these kings to those in Israel? xiv. 30; xv. 6, 16.

1. The Reign of Rehoboam. xiv. 21-31.

• At what age of Solomon was he born? 21, cf. xi. 42.
• Who, then, was Solomon's first wife? 21.
• Comparative sinfulness of Judah? 22, 23.
• How did Rehoboam conduct himself at first? II. Chron. xii. 1, 2.
• What did he do to strengthen his kingdom? ib. xi. 5-12.
• What the treasures of the house of the Lord? 26, cf. I. Ki. vii. 40-51.
• Why make shields of brass? 27, 28.
• What this book of chronicles? 29.
• How much longer Jeroboam's reign than Rehoboam's? 21, cf. 20.

2. The Reign of Abijam over Judah. xv. 1-8.

• Whose daughter was his mother? 2, cf. II. Chron. xi. 21.
• How was David's heart perfect with God? 3, cf. 5.
• Describe a battle which he fought against Jeroboam. II. Chron. xiii. 3-22.
• Why say Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted? xiii. 7, cf. xii. 13; I. Ki. xiv. 21.
• What, "the commentary of the prophet Iddo"? II. Chron. xiii. 22.

3. The Reign of Asa. 9-24; II. Chron. xiv. 1-xv. 19.

• How could his mother be the same as his father's mother? 10, cf. 2, 13.
• Who the Sodomites? 12.
• How could he remove his mother from being queen? 13.
• How the high places not removed, yet Asa's heart perfect? 14, cf. II. Chron. xiv. 2, 3, 5. [64] 
• Why Ramah selected by Baasha? 17.
• On what principle did Ben-hadad act? 20.
• What disease in his feet? 23.
• What other war did Asa wage? II. Chron. xiv. 8-15.
• What reformation did he effect, and at whose suggestion? ib. xv. 1-19.
• When the movement of Baasha? ib. xvi. 1.
• How was Asa dealt with for hiring the Syrians? ib. xvi. 2-10.
• What fault in reference to his feet? 12.
• Why a fault?
• Why the bed of spices and the burning? 14.

§ IV. REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD IN ISRAEL, AND THE HOUSE
OF OMRI ESTABLISHED.I. Ki. xv. 25-xvi. 34.

1. The House of Jeroboam Cut Off by Baasha. xv. 25-32.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• How could Nadab begin in the second year of Asa, and die in his third year, yet reign two years? 25, 28. See also xv. 32; xvi. 8, cf. 15; et al.
• What the sin that Jeroboam made Israel to sin? xv. 26, 30, 34.
• Why exterminate Jeroboam's seed? 29.

2. The Reign of Baasha. xv. 33-xvi. 7. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Meaning of, "exalted thee out of the dust"? xvi. 2.
• Why censured for smiting Jeroboam's house? 7.

3. The Reigns of Elah and Zimri. xvi. 8-20.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Why so much bloodshed and treason?

4. The Reign of Omri. 21-28. (Not in Chronicles.)

• What of the interval of four years? 23, cf. 15.
• Why the purchase, [65] and the new city? 24, cf. Lands of the Bible, 295, 296.

5. The Reign of Ahab: Its General Character. 29-34.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• How the thirty-eight years counted? 29, cf. 23, 15.
• Why so bad to take Jezebel? 31.
• When was Baal-worship last seen before this? 31, 32, cf. I. Sam. vii. 1-4.
• How account for Hiel's act? 34.
• How account for the steady increase of wickedness? 33.

§ V. THE STRUGGLE OF ELIJAH AGAINST BAAL-WORSHIP.I. Ki. xvii. 1-xix. 21.

1. He Delivers His Message and Hides at the Brook Cherith. xvii. 1-7.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Meaning of Tishbite? 1, cf. margin.
• Where was Gilead?
• How had he obtained this power? Cf. Jas. v. 17.
• His design?
• Where the brook Cherith? See Lands of the Bible, 234.
• Why fed by ravens? 4, 6.

2. He Is Sent to a Widow of Zarephath. 8-16.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Where was Zarephath? 9; Lands of the Bible, 532.
• Why not sent to some person in Israel? 15, cf. Luke, iv. 25, 26.
• Design of the miracle? 16.

3. The Widow's Son Dies and Is Resuscitated. 17-24.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Why think her sin was the cause? 18.
• Why think God [66] had slain the child? 20.

4. Elijah Is Sent to Ahab. xviii. 1-19. (Not in Chronicles.)

• In the third year after what? 1, cf. Luke, iv. 25; Jas. v. 17.
• When the prophets cut off? and why? 4, cf. 13.
• What of the animals of the poor? 5.
• Why Obadiah's fear? 10-12.
• Why such a search for Elijah? 10.
• Why call Elijah the "troubler of Israel"? 17.
• In all similar cases who is the troubler?

5. The Trial on Mount Carmel. 20-39. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why no answer to Elijah's demand? 21.
• Why mock the prophets? 27.
• Why cut themselves? 28.
• What, "the evening oblation"? 29.
• When and why an altar of Jehovah there? 30.
• Why the water? 33, 34.
• Difference in the prayers? 36, 37, cf. 26, 28.
• How consume the stones and the dust? 38.
• State all that overcame the people.

6. The Prophets Killed and the Rain Brought. 40-46.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Why slain? 40.
• Why eat under such circumstances? 42, cf. 36.
• On what part of the mountain was this trial? 42, 46.
• Why Elijah's strange posture? 42, cf. Jas. v. 17, 18.
• How did this rain come? 44, 45.
• How far did Elijah run? 46, cf. Lands of the Bible, 308, 512.

7. Elijah's Flight. xix. 1-8. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why did Jezebel send him word? 2.
• Why flee for this? 3.
• Why to Judah and Beer-sheba? 3.
• Why wish to die? 4.
• What [67] occupied the forty days?

8. God Appears to Him at Mount Horeb. 9-18.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• What covenant? 10.
• What altars?
• Significance of the wind, the earthquake, the fire, and the voice? 11-13, cf. 18.
• What the wilderness of Damascus. 15.

9. Elisha Is called To Be a Prophet. 19-21.

• Who drove the other oxen? 19.
• How could he understand the act of Elijah? 19, 20.
• Why the feast?

§ VI. WAR BETWEEN AHAB AND BEN-HADAD. I. Ki. xx. 1-43.

1. Samaria Besieged and Its Pillage Demanded. xx. 1-12.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• How did he get to the city without a battle? 1.
• Why willing to concede the first demand? 3, 4.
• Why reject the second? 5-9.
• Meaning of the boast? 10.
• A notable saying? 11.
• Was this the Ben-hadad hired by Asa? 34, cf. xv. 18-20.

2. The Besieging Army Defeated. 13-22. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why a prophet sent to Ahab? 13.
• Who these young men? 14.
• Why had Ahab so small a force? 15.
• Why go out at noon? 16.
• How account for the flight? 20, cf. 16.
• Why the prophet's warning? 22.
• Meaning of, "the return of the year." 22.

3. Another Invasion. 23-30. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Syrian conception of gods? 23.
• Why put captains in the room of the kings? 24, cf. 16.
• Why the Lord with Ahab again? [68] 28.
• How could a falling wall kill twenty-seven thousand? 30.

4. Ben-hadad Captured and Released. 31-34. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Significance of the ropes? 34.
• Ingenuity of the scheme?
• Meaning of remark about the streets? 34.

5. Ahab Rebuked for Sparing Ben-hadad. 35-43.
(Not in Chronicles.)

• Why the fate of the disobedient prophet? 36.
• Why the smiting? 37.
• Why Ahab censured for mercy? 42.

§ VII. THE VINEYARD AT NABOTH. xxi. 1-29.

1. Ahab Tries To Buy the Vineyard. xxi. 1-4. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why the vineyard wanted?
• Why Naboth's refusal?
• Why Ahab so bitterly disappointed?

2. The Vineyard Obtained by Jezebel. 5-16. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why in Ahab's name? 8.
• Why "proclaim a fast"? 9.
• Why did the elders and nobles comply? 11.
• Did Ahab know what she had done? 15, 16.

3. The Crime Denounced. 17-29. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why say, "O mine enemy"? 20.
• Meaning of, "him that is shut up and him that is left at large"? 21.
• Chief cause of Ahab's wickedness? 25.
• Why Ahab so penitent? 27.

§ VIII. RENEWAL OF WAR WITH SYRIA, AND THE DEATH
OF AHAB. I. KI. xxii. 1-40.

1. A League between Ahab and Jehoshaphat. xxii. 1-4;
II. Chron. xviii. 1-3. [69]

• Why Jehoshaphat's visit? 2, cf. II. Chron. xviii. 1; II. Ki. viii. 16-18
• Why did Jehoshaphat consent? 4.
• Why had not Ramoth-gilead been given up according to agreement? Cf.xx. 34.

2. The Kings Inquire of the Lord. 5-12; II. Chron. xviii. 4, 5.

• Why the proposal made by Jehoshaphat? 5.
• How so many prophets? 6.
• Why not satisfied with their answer? 7.
• When had Micaiah prophesied evil? Cf. xx. 42.
• Why not call Elijah?
• Significance of the horns? 11.

3. Micaiah's Prediction. 13-28; II. Chron. xviii. 6-27.

• Why the messenger's advice to Micaiah? 13.
• How was Micaiah's first answer understood? 15, 16.
• Point in the second answer? 17.
• Significance of his vision? 19-23.
• Was the vision real or imaginary?
• Meaning of Zedekiah's demand? 24.
• What the bread and water of affliction? 27.

4. The Battle Fought and Ahab Slain. 23-40;
II. Chron. xviii. 28-34.

• Why did Ahab disguise himself? 30, cf. 20.
• Why the order of Ben-hadad? 31.
• Why spare Jehoshaphat? 33.
• What was their report after the battle?
• How does this illustrate the providence of God?
• Which army was victorious? 36.
• What is meant by an ivory house? 39. [70]

§ IX. THE REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT.I. Ki. xxii. 41-50.

• How and why were his ships broken? 48, cf. II. Chron. xx. 37.
• What educational enterprise under Jehoshaphat? II. Chron. xviii. 7-9.
• What "book of the law of Jehovah" was this?
• How many men in his militia? II. Chron. xvii. 14-19.
• What rebuke did he receive for his connection with Ahab? II. Chron. xix. 1-3.
• What was thought of the friendship by the people?
• What judiciary arrangement did he make? II. Chron. xix. 4-11.
• What authority for this? Deut. xvi. 18-20.
• Give a brief account of an invasion of Jehoshaphat's kingdom by Moab and Ammon? II. Chron. xx. 1-30.

§ X. THE REIGN OF AHAZIAH. I. Ki. xxii. 51-II. Ki. i. 18.
(NOT IN CHRONICLES.)

• To what extent was Baal-worship revived? xxii. 53.
• What is said of Moab at this time? II. Ki. i. 1, cf. iii. 4, 5.
• How did he fall through the lattice?
• Who was Baal-zebub?
• Why the men slain?
• Who was Jehoram? 17, cf. iii. 1.

§ XI. THE REIGN OF JEHORAM AND THE CAREER OF ELISHA.
II. Ki. ii. 1-viii. 15.

1. Elisha Clings to Elijah. ii. 1-18. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Was this the Gilgal near the Jordan? 1, cf. 2.
• How did they know what was to be done? 3, 5.
• Why Elisha's persistency? 2, 4, 6.
• Where did the fifty stand? and why? 7.
• Meaning of, "a double portion of thy spirit"? 9.
• Meaning of Elisha's [71] exclamation? 12.
• Why the search by the fifty? 16-18.
• What proved by the search?

2. Waters Healed and Children Devoured. 19-25.

• Why was the situation pleasant? 19.
• Are those waters good now?
• Which way to Beth-el?
• Meaning of, "cursed them in the name of the Lord"? 24.
• Purpose of the death of the children?
• In which kingdom were Beth-el and Jericho?

3. General Character of Jehoram's Reign. iii. 1-3.

4. Jehoram and Jehoshaphat March against Mesha King of
Moab. 4-10.

• Why the king called a sheepmaster? 4.
• What the line of march? 8, 9.
• Where were they? and why their fear? 9, 10.

5. They Inquire of the Lord. 11-19.

• Significance of pouring water on hands? 11.
• Why was Elisha there?
• Why his contempt for Jehoram? 13, 14.
• Why call for a minstrel?

6. The Prediction Fulfilled. 20-27.

• From what direction did the water come?
• Why take the water for blood? 22, cf. 17.
• Why make such desolation? iii. 25, cf. 19.
• Meaning of, "break through unto the king of Edom"? 26.
• Why sacrifice his son? 27.
• Why the wrath against Israel? 27.
• What else known of Mesha? See The Moabite stone.

7. Elisha Relieves a Prophet's Widow. iv. 1-7.

• What right had the creditor to do this? 1.
• Why adopt this [72] method of relief?

8. The Kindness of a Shunammite Rewarded. 8-17.

• Where was Shunem? 8.
• Meaning of, "great woman"? 8.
• Why such provision for the prophet? 10.
• How could the chamber be on the wall? 10.
• Meaning of, "I dwell among mine own people"? 13, cf. our expression, "He lives at home."
• Why say, "do not lie"? 16.

9. The Child Dies and Is Revived by Elisha. 18-37.

• In what sense "grown"? 18.
• What was the child's disease? 19, 20.
• Why say, "it is neither new moon nor sabbath"? 23.
• Why say, "Drive"? 24.
• Why answer, "It is well"? 26.
• Why, "to thrust her away"? 27.
• Why, "salute him not"? 29.
• Why send the staff?

10. Relief in Famine. 38-44.

• What was pottage? 38.
• Why the prophets reduced to such fare?
• Why the barley bread and grain? 42.

11. Naaman Is Healed of Leprosy. v. 1-19.

• How had Jehovah given victory to Syria by Naaman? 1.
• Why the maid's proposal? 3.
• Why was she so readily believed? 5.
• Why apply to Jehoram? 5, 6.
• Why did not Jehoram send for Elisha? 7, cf. iii. 13, 14.
• Why return to the prophet after the healing? 15.
• Why did he want some earth? 17.
• Force of the answer, "Go in peace"? 19, cf. 18.

12. The Sin and Punishment of Elisha's Servant. 20-27. [73]

• What the worst effect of the sin? 20-23, cf. 16.
• Why speak of oliveyards, vineyards, etc.? 26.
• Why, "unto thy seed"? 27.

13. A Prophet's Axe Recovered. vi. 1-7.

• Why ask permission?
• What kind of dwelling? 2.
• Why go to the Jordan? 2.
• Why not dive for the axe?
• Why such trouble over an axe?

14. Elisha Captures a Syrian Band. 8-23.

• Why does Elisha now help Jehoram? 9.
• Why think there was a traitor among his servants? 11.
• Why wish to capture Elisha? 13.
• What lesson taught the servant? 16, 17.
• What kind of blindness? 18-20.
• Did the prophet lie to them? 19, 20.
• Why fed and sent away? 22, 23.

15. Samaria Besieged and Relief Predicted. vi. 24-vii. 2.

• How reconcile 24 with 23?
• Force of the king's reply to the woman? 27.
• Why the sackcloth? 30.
• Why the threat against Elisha? 31, cf. 33.
• How dare to hold the door? vi. 32.
• Why say, "son of a murderer"?
• Meaning of, "wait for the Lord any longer"? 33.
• How much was, a "measure"? vii. 1. [It was the seah, about one third of a bushel].

16. The Prediction Fulfilled. vii. 3-20.

• Why the lepers outside? and why in the gateway? 3.
• Who the kings of the Hittites? 6.
• Why leave the horses? 7.
• Why the lepers alarmed? 9.
• Why the suspicion of the king? 12.
• Why did the people tread upon the captain? 17. [74]

17. Another Service to the Shunammite Woman. viii. 1-5.

• Connection of this famine with the poverty of the prophets? 1, cf. iv. 38-40.
• Why would the kind talk to a leper? 4.
• How had she lost her lands? 6.

18. Elisha's Prediction to Hazael, and Its Effects. 7-15.

• Why so respectful to Elisha? 8, 9, cf. vi. 13.
• Meaning of the prophet's answer? 10.
• Why say, "but a dog"? 13.
• Did the prediction help to fulfil itself? 10, 13, 15.

§ XII. THE END OF THE HOUSE OF OMRI. II. Ki. viii. 16-x. 36.

1. The Reign of Jehoram of Judah. viii. 16-24;
II. Chron. xxi. 1-20.

• How could Jehoram reign while Jehoshaphat was king? 16.
• Why the remark about not destroying Judah? 19.
• Explain his fight with the Edomites? 21, 22.

2. The Reign of Ahaziah of Judah. 25-29; II. Chron. xxii. 1-6.

• How was Athaliah daughter of Omri? 26, cf. 18.
• Why was Hazael at Ramoth-gilead? 28, cf. 12.
• Which side victorious? See ix. 14.

3. Jehu Is Anointed and Commissioned by Order of Elisha.
ix. 1-13. (Not in Chronicles.)

• When the original order for this? See I. Ki. xix. 15-18.
• Why not executed sooner?
• Why the house of Ahab to perish? 7.
• Why say, "this mad fellow"? 11.
• Why acknowledge Jehu so promptly? 13. [75]

4. Jehu Slays the Two Kings. 14-29. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why say, "let none escape and go forth out of the city"? 15.
• How the driving recognized? 20.

5. The Death of Jezebel. 30-37. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why call him Zimri? 31, cf. I. Ki. xvi. 10, 18.
• Why was she so daring?
• Why were eunuchs there? 32.

6. Jehu Slaughters the Seed of Ahab. x. 1-14. (Not in Chronicles.)

• How the rulers of Jezreel in Samaria? 1.
• Why the challenge to them? 3.
• Who were these seventy sons of Ahab? 1, 6.
• Point in his question about the heads? 9.
• What his justification? 10.
• Who, "the brethren of Ahaziah"? 13.

7. His Meeting with Jehonadab and the Slaughter of the
Baal-worshippers. 15-28. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Who was Jehonadab? 15, cf. Jer xxxv. 1-9; I. Chron. ii. 55.
• Why the vestments? and why the search? 22, 23.
• Meaning of "draught house"? 27.

8. The Rest of Jehu's Reign. 29-36. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why did he spare the calf-worship? 29.
• Extent of Hazael's conquest? 33.

§ XIII. THE USURPATION OF ATHALIAH, AND THE REIGN OF
JOASH. II. Ki. xi. 1-xii. 21; II. Chron. xxii. 10-12.

1. Athaliah Usurps the Throne of Judah. xi. 1-3;
II. Chron. xxii. 10-12.

• Why destroy her own offspring? 1.
• What bedchamber in [76] the house of the Lord? 2, 3.
• Crisis in the house of David?

2. Joash Crowned, and Athaliah Slain. 4-16;
II. Chron. xxiii. 1-15.

• Who the captain of Carites and the guard? 4, cf. 5, 7; II. Chron. xxiii. 1-5.
• Why give them spears and shields? 10.
• Why cry, "Treason"? 14.
• Trace the career of Athaliah? 3.

3. A Covenant Made, and Baal-worship Destroyed. 17-21;
II. Chron. xxiii. 16-xxiv. 1.

• Why the covenant? 17.
• Why a house of Baal in Jerusalem? 18.

4. The Early Part of the Reign of Joash. xii. 1-3;
II. Chron. xxiv. 2, 3.

• How could he reign at seven? xi. 21, cf. xii. 2.
• What was wrong in the high places? 3.

5. Joash Repairs the Temple. 4-16; II. Chron. xxiv. 4-16.

• What the moneys first mentioned? 4.
• Why the order not executed? 7.
• What kind of breaches to be repaired? 11, 12.
• Why not reckon with the workmen? 15.

6. Hazael Appeased, and Joash Slain. 17-21;
II. Chron. xxiv. 23-27.

• Where was Gath? 17.
• Why not fight Hazael? 18.
• Why the conspiracy? 20, 21, cf. II. Chron. xxiv. 25.
• What does his career illustrate? [77]

§ XIV. THE REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ AND JEHOASH OVER
ISRAEL. II. Ki. xiii. 1-25. (NOT IN CHRONICLES.)

1. The Reign of Jehoahaz. xiii. 1-9.

• Why the sin of Jeroboam so serious now? 2, 6.
• Why Hazael's son named Ben-hadad? 3, cf. viii. 15.
• Meaning of, "dwelt in their tents, as beforetime"? 5.
• Why the army so reduced? 7.

2. The Reign of Jehoash of Israel. 10-13.

• His war with Amaziah described later. 12, cf. xiv. 8-16.

3. Elisha's Last Prediction. 14-19.

• Why this address? 14.
• Why the significance of the signs?

4. Death and Burial of Elisha. 20, 21.

• Why this miracle?
• Length of Elisha's career?

5. Elisha's Prediction Fulfilled. 22-25.

§ XV. THE REIGNS OF AMAZIAH AND JEROBOAM THE SECOND.
xiv. 1-29.

1. Amaziah Reigns and Avenges His Father's Death.
xiv. 1-7; II. Chron. xxv. 1-4.

• Why mention the sparing of the children?

2. Amaziah's Foolish Challenge to Jehoash. 8-16; II. Chron. xxv. 17-24.

• Point in the fable? 9.
• What smiting of Edom? 10, cf. II. Chron. xxv. 5-16.
• What lesson taught in this? and what folly exhibited?

3. The Death of Amaziah. 17-22; II. Chron. xxv. 25-28.

• Why the conspiracy? 19, cf. II. Chron. xxv. 27.
• How did they bring his corpse on horses? 20. [78]

4. The Reign of Jeroboam the Second. 23-29. (Not in Chronicles.)

• What are Hamath and the sea of the Arabah? 25.
• Meaning of, "none shut up nor left at large"? 26.
• When had Damascus and Hamath belonged to Judah? 28, cf. I. Chron. xviii. 1-6.
• How according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Jonah? 25, cf. the connection Elisha with Jehoram?
• On what noted mission was Jonah sent? See Book of Jonah.
• Describe his conduct when first told to go. Jonah i. 1-17.
• Why did he flee? and why to Tarshish? 3.
• How, "from the presence of Jehovah"?
• Why so sound asleep? 5, 6.
• Why alarmed at Jonah's statement? 10.
• Why his proposal? 12.
• Why not at once accepted? 13.
• Why their prayer? 14.
• When the sacrifice and vows? 16.
• What his experiences in the fish? ii. 2, 4-6.
• Why say, "bowels of Sheol," and "for ever"? 2, 6.
• His conduct under a second command, and its effect? iii. 1-10.
• How, "of three days' journey"? iii. 3, 4.
• Why did they believe and repent? 5, 6, cf. Luke, xi. 30.
• Was there a change in God? iii. 10.
• Give the rest of the story. iv. 1-11.
• Why angry? iv. 1-3.
• Lesson from the gourd? iv. 10, 11.

§ XVI. THE REIGN OF AZARIAH IN JUDAH, AND A REVOLUTIONARY
PERIOD IN ISRAEL. II. Ki. xv. 1-31; II. Chron. xxvi. 1-23.

1. The Reign of Azariah. xv. 1-7.

• What the abbreviation of his name? xv. 13, 30; II. Chron. xxvi. 3, 4.
• What of his three predecessors in Matthew's genealogy? [79] 
• Why smitten with leprosy? 5, cf. II. Chron. xxvi. 21-23.
• Meaning of "several house"?
• For what was he noted in military affairs? ib. 6-9, 11-14.
• For what in agriculture? ib. 10.
• Why the towers and cisterns?
• Why the cisterns hewn out?
• Outward condition of both kingdoms?

THE PROPHET AMOS.i. 1-ix. 15.

(1.) The Man and His Time. Am i. 1.

• Where was Tekoa?
• Why say, "words which he saw"?
• When was the earthquake? See Zech. xiv. 5, cf. Josephus, Ant. IX. x. 4; XV. v. 2.

(2.) He Denounces the Surrounding Nations, and Predicts the
Captivity of Israel. i. 2-vii. 9.

• State of morals in Israel? ii. 6-12.

(3.) He Is Accused and Denounced by Amaziah Priest
of Beth-el. vii. 10-17.

• Why bid him return to Judah and prophesy? 12, 13.
• Point in saying, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son"? 14.
• Point in the predicted fate of Amaziah? 17.

(4.) Continuation of the Prediction. viii. 1-ix. 9.

• Why the allusion to Beer-sheba, Dan and Gilgal. Cf. 14, 1; v. 4, 5; iv. 1-13.

(5.) The Final Restoration of David's Throne. ix. 10-12,
cf. Acts, xv. 14-18.

(6.) The Final Restoration of Israel. 13-15.

• Can this passage be a figurative reference to the church? [80] 
• Was it fulfilled in the return from Babylon? 15.
• Explain the remark about the plowman, the reaper, etc.? 13.

2. The House of Jehu Ends with the Death of Zechariah.
xv. 8-12. (Not in Chronicles.)

• Why emphasize the sins of Jeroboam? 9.
• When the promise of 12. See x. 30.
• How long the career of this house? x. 36; xiii. 1, 10; xiv. 23; xv. 8.

3. The Reign of Shallum. 13-16. (Not in Chronicles.)

• What prompted Menahem?
• Why this cruelty to Tiphsah? 16.

4. The Reign of Menahem. 17-22. (Not in Chronicles.)

• How, "to confirm the kingdom in his hand"? 19.
• How many men were assessed? 20.
• This the beginning of Assyrian invasions.

5. The Reign of Pekahiah. 23-26. (Not in Chronicles.)

• The motive of Pekah? 25.
• Why were Gileadites with him? 25.

6. The Reign of Pekah. 27-31. (Not in Chronicles.)

• How many kings in Israel contemporary with Azariah? 27, cf. 23, 17, 13, 8, 1.
• What the extent of this captivity? 29.
• What Galilee was this? Cf. I. Ki. ix. 10-14.
• Cause of this invasion? See xvi. 5-9.
• What the motive of Hoshea? 30.
• The number of kings in this revolutionary period? and its duration? 27, 23, 17, 13.
• What state of society must have existed in Israel? Cf. Am ii. 6-12, et al.
• What now thought of Amos?

THE PROPHET HOSEA.i. 1-xiv. 9.

(1.) His Period. i. 1. [81]

• How long was it? [From death of Jeroboam the Second, to that of Uzziah; II. Ki. xv. 2, 8, fourteen years; + Jotham's reign; xv. 32, 33, sixteen years; + reign of Ahaz, II. Ki. xvi. 2, sixteen years; + part of Jeroboam's, and part of Hezekiah's reign, say, eight years: = fifty-four years.]

(2.) His First Prophecy. i. 2-iii. 5.

• Give the account of his wife and three children. i. 2-9.
• What symbolized by this? i. 2.
• Was it a reality?
• In whose reign was this spoken? i. 4.
• How is the symbol continued? ii. 2-7.
• What meant by the lovers? ii. 5, cf. 13, 17.
• What the financial condition of the people? ii. 5, 8, 13.
• What holy days observed? ii. 11.
• What final result predicted? iii. 4, 5.
• What apparent probability at the time of the condition described in iii. 4?

(3.) His Other Prophecies. iv. 1-xiv. 9.

• Political allusions? v. 13, cf. xv. 19; vii. 7, 11, 12; viii. 9, 10; xii. 1.
• Allusions to false worship. iv. 13, 14, 17; viii. 5-7.
• State of morals. iv. 1, 2; vi. 6-10.
• Prediction of a resurrection. vi. 1-3.
• Captivity predicted. ix. 11-17; x. 5-8.
• God's reluctance in punishment. xi. 8-11.
• Graphic description of Israel's career. xiii. 1-16.
• Invitation to return to God. xiv. 1-9. [82]

§ XVII. THE REIGNS OF JOTHAM AND AHAZ OVER JUDAH.
II. Ki. xv. 8-xvi. 20.

1. Reign of Jotham. xv. 32-38; II. Chron. xxvii. 1-9.

• What the "upper gate of the house of the Lord"? 35.
• In what sense did the Lord begin to send Pekah and Rezin? 37, cf. xvi. 5.

2. The Extreme Wickedness of Ahaz. xvi. 1-4;
II. Chron. xxviii. 1-4.

• How make his son pass through the fire? 3.

3. His War with Rezin and Pekah. 5-9; II. Chron. xxviii. 5-15.

• Why did God send these kings? Cf. 4; xv. 37.
• What of some prisoners whom they took? II. Chron. xxviii. 8-15.
• How get to Elath without taking Jerusalem? 6.
• What territory had Assyria now south of the Euphrates? 9, cf. xv. 29.
• What did Isaiah predict concerning Rezin and Pekah? Is. vii. 1-17; viii. 1-4.
• State the time and circumstances of Isaiah's call to be a prophet. vi. 1-13.
• In what reigns did he prophesy? i. 1.
• His picture of the sin and wretchedness of Israel? i. 2-9.
• At what time was this written? 5, 7, 9.

4. Ahaz Adopts a Heathen Altar and Makes Changes about
the Temple. 10-20; II. Chron. xxviii. 22-27.

• Why all this?

THE PROPHET MICAH.i. 1-vii. 20.

• In what reigns did he prophesy? i. 1.
• How does he compare in point of time with Isaiah? Is. i. 1.
• Concerning whom did [83] he prophesy? i. 1.
• What disaster to Samaria did he predict? i. 1-7.
• What, to Jerusalem? iii. 1-12.
• What passage in common with Isaiah? iv. 1-3, cf. Is. ii. 2-4.
• What prediction respecting the Messiah? v. 2, cf. Matt. ii. 4-6.
• Acceptable worship. vi. 6-8.

§ XVIII. THE REIGN OF HOSEA AND THE CAPTIVITY OF
ISRAEL. II. Ki. xvii. 1-41. (NOT IN CHRONICLES.)

1. He Conspires against Shalmaneser, and Is Cast into Prison.
xvii. 1-4.

• Who was Shalmaneser? 3, cf. xvi. 10.
• Purpose of sending messengers to So? 4, cf. Hos. vii. 11, xii. 1.

2. Samaria Taken and Israel Carried Away. 5, 6.

• Why so long a siege? 5, cf. Am vi. 1.
• What king took Samaria? 6. See Rawlinson.
• Where the river Gozan? and where the cities of the Medes?
• Why scatter the captives?

3. God's Reasons for Sending Israel into Captivity. 7-23.

• What the sum of them all?

4. The New Inhabitants of the Land. 24-41.

• What the king's policy in this? 24.
• Why think the lions were sent by "the God of the land"? 26.
• Why say they feared Jehovah, and yet feared him not? 33, 34, 41.
• What people descended from these? [84]

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