BOOK OF 1ST KINGS.
1 KINGS 1.
The aged king David’s decline.
Adonijah seeks to usurp brother Solomon’s reign before David dies.
Joab and Abiathar defect to Adonijah.
David gives Solomon his kingdom and makes him King in Adonijah’s stead.
Adonijah flees to escape the penalty of treason.
King Solomon gives Adonijah conditional mercy, but not a pardon.
1 KINGS 2
The last words of David before his death.
The penalty for treason exacted upon Joab, Adonijah and Shimei.
1 KINGS 3
Solomon’s forges affinity with Egypt’s Pharaoh by marriage.
God appears to Solomon in a dream offering to a gift of his own choice.
God answers his prayer for wisdom, giving him also exceeding wealth.
1 KINGS 4
King Solomon rules his vast kingdom with great wisdom, riches & wealth.
1 KINGS 5
Solomon & Hiram get supplies to build the temple.
1 KINGS 6
Solomon builds and completes the temple in seven years.
1 KINGS 7
The Temple décor and Solomon’s building projects.
1 KINGS 8
Solomon’s prayer and his dedication of the temple.
1 KINGS 9
God appears a second time to Solomon; God covenants with Solomon.
1 KINGS 10
The Queen of Sheba visits Solomon’s kingdom.
1 KINGS 11
God warns Solomon of his kingdom’s rupture;
Jerusalem to be preserved.
Ahijah prophesies of Jeroboam’s new kingdom: Israel’s ten tribes.
Prophecy: for its grievous idolatry Judah shall suffer, but not forever.
Solomon dies & king Rehoboam his son reigns over all Israel.
1 KINGS 12
Rehoboam’s folly provokes mutinous rebellion led by Jeroboam.
King Jeroboam reigns over ten seceding tribes fled to Samaria.
Judah prepares for civil war against northern rebels.
Shemaiah the prophet prevents civil war’s bloodshed.
Israel’s Jeroboam the infidel changes the religion of Samaria.
1 KINGS 13
The prophet’s curse on Jeroboam’s golden calves in Dan and Bethel.
The false prophet deceives God’s own prophet.
The deadly consequence of the prophet’s beguilement.
1 KINGS 14
Israel’s prophet Ahijah & Jeroboam; King Jeroboam dies; King Nadab, his son, reigns in Jeroboam’s stead.
Egypt’s king Shishak attacks Judah & king Rehoboam dies.
1 KINGS 15
Judah’s King Asa removes the sodomites.
Judah’s King Asa distrusts God in the civil war.
Judah’s King Asa dies; Judah’s King Jehoshaphat reigns.
King Nadab reigns in Samaria (Israel).
How Baasha’s fratricide had gained him the throne of Nadab.
1 KINGS 16
Jehu’s prophecy: a curse upon Baasha and Israel’s royals.
King Elah replaces Baasha on Israel’s throne.
Israel’s king Zimri is deposed who then suicides;
Omri reigns; the ensuing anarchy.
Ahab reigns in Omri’s stead from the city of Samaria.
1 KINGS 17
Israel’s prophet Elijah confronts wicked Ahab, then he hides.
The miraculous saga of Elijah hiding amid drought & famine.
1 KINGS 18
The great test of Ahab’s prophets of Baal by Elijah.
Ahab meets Elijah face to face; the proposed contest at Mount Carmel.
The challenge begins by Elijah against 450 prophets.
Elijah’s prayer is answered by the fire of God.
1 KINGS 19
At the zenith of his ministry Elijah flees from a woman.
Elijah despondently quits his post as Israel’s prophet.
1 KINGS 20
Syria’s King Benhadad besieges Samaria; God defends Israel.
Captive King Benhadad tricks Ahab into releasing him.
God’s prophet predicts Ahab’s death for releasing Benhadad.
1 KINGS 21
Ahab steals some property by assassinating the owner.
Elijah confronts King Ahab over Nadab’s murder;
He predicts Ahab & Jezebel’s death.
1 KINGS 22
Prophet Micaiah asked to prophesy & is imprisoned doing it.
Ahab is mortally wounded in battle against Syrians.
Israel’s king Ahab is replaced by Ahaziah after Ahab’s death.
Judah’s King Jehoshaphat succeeds Asa,
Israeli alliance is the royal family’s curse.
Israel’s king Ahaziah’s evil reign in Samaria
God rejects Elijah’s needless flight; God makes Elisha prophet.
Last days of Elijah before Elisha sees his final fiery rapture.
THE 2ND BOOK OF KINGS.
2 KINGS 1.
Elijah predicts Ahaziah’s death. He retaliates.
2 KINGS 2.
The prophet Elisha replaces Elijah in Samaria.
2 KINGS 3
Judah’s Jehoshaphat makes an unwise alliance.
2 KINGS 4:
The widow’s oil & her dead son revived by Elisha in Samaria.
2 KINGS 5
Samaria’s prophet, Elisha heals the Syrian Captain.
2 KINGS 6
Samaria’s prophet floats a lost axe. Syria besieges Elisha.
2 KINGS 7
Elisha predicts Samaria will defeat the Syrian invaders.
2 KINGS 8
Syria’s king assassinated. Jehoshaphat’s sons reign in Judah.
2 KINGS 9
Samaria’s King Jehu slays Jezebel’s son, & son-in-law.
2 KINGS 10
Samaria’s Jehu destroys Ahab’s children & Baal worshippers.
2 KINGS 11
Ahab’s daughter proclaims herself queen of Judah.
2 KINGS 12
Jehoshaphat’s great grandson, Joash, reigns in Judah.
2 KINGS 13
A counterpart contemporary Joash reigns also in Samaria.
2 KINGS 14
Judah’s King Amaziah provokes civil war with Samaria.
2 KINGS 15 Judah’ s leper king Azariah. Samaria taken into captivity.
2 KINGS 16
Assyria defends Judah against Israeli and Syrian forces.
2 KINGS 17
Samaritan captivity & forced immigration of Babylonians.
2 KINGS 18
Assyrian campaigns against Israel & Judah in Hezekiah’s reign.
2 KINGS 19
Beleaguered Hezekiah’s prayer & Isaiah’s prophecy.
2 KINGS 20
Isaiah & the ailing Hezekiah’s recovery.
2 KINGS 21
Hezekiah’s son Manasseh’s evil reign.
2 KINGS 22
Judah’s Josiah the righteous boy king.
2 KINGS 23
Judah’s godliness revived under Josiah and his destruction of Samaria’s idols.
2 KINGS 24
The last days of Judah before Babylonian captivity.
2 KINGS 25
The final siege of Jerusalem and its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar.
End of Second Book of Kings.
1ST BOOK OF CHRONICLES.
1 CHRONICLES: 1.
The descendants of Adam’s son Seth to Noah, Shem, and Abraham.
1 CHRONICLES: 2
The descendants of Jacob (Israel) Abraham’s grandson, & his son Judah.
1 CHRONICLES: 3
The lineage of Judah through David the king.
1 CHRONICLES: 4
The lineage of Israel’s son Judah
1 CHRONICLES: 5
The settlement by Reuben, Gad & Manasseh in Gilead.
The Diaspora from the tribes of Israel after the Babylonian captivity
1 CHRONICLES: 10
Death of King Saul against the Philistines & David while consulting a witch.
1 CHRONICLES: 11
Coronation of King David & honouring past gallantry of his militia.
1 CHRONICLES: 12
David consolidates his hold on the kingdom with military victories.
1 CHRONICLES: 13
David’s unwise attempt to recover the ark of the covenant.
1 CHRONICLES: 14
King David: his house, his harem, and his battles.
1 CHRONICLES: 15
Festive return of the ark to Zion’s tabernacle in Jerusalem.
1 CHRONICLES: 16
Jerusalem’s tabernacle and David’s psalm of joy.
1 CHRONICLES: 17
David’s proposed temple for the tabernacle & his prayer.
1 CHRONICLES: 18
David expands the kingdom.
1 CHRONICLES: 19
David’s wars with Ammon and Syria.
1 CHRONICLES: 20
David’s indolence & his fall into cruel & grievous sins.
1 CHRONICLES: 21
David further succumbs to nationalism, suffering God’s retribution.
1 CHRONICLES: 22
David prepares materials for Solomon’s temple.
2 CHRONICLES: 23
David crowns Solomon King
He summons 38,000 Levites to temple tasks.
2 CHRONICLES: 24
David’s muster of three Levitical divisions & their lineage.
1 CHRONICLES: 25
David’s muster of Levite instrumentalists for Solomon’s temple.
1 CHRONICLES: 26
The muster of David’s porters, officers, and rulers
1 CHRONICLES: 27
Muster of appointed military officers, judges and princes.
1 CHRONICLES: 28
David hands reins of the kingdom & temple plans to Solomon
1 CHRONICLES: 29
Before his decease David bestows Israel’s legacy upon King Solomon.
BOOK OF 2ND CHRONICLES.
2 CHRONICLES: 1.
Early reign of Solomon;
God’s appears with an offer.
2 CHRONICLES: 2
King Solomon activates David’s temple plan
2 CHRONICLES: 3
Solomon begins the temple building.
2 CHRONICLES: 4
Solomon’s use of precious metals for the temple.
2 CHRONICLES: 5
Solomon moves Zion’s tabernacle to Mt. Moriah
He transfers tabernacle into new temple.
2 CHRONICLES: 6
Solomon opens & dedicates the temple in prayer.
2 CHRONICLES: 7
Solomon’s dedicatory prayer.
God confirms acceptance with fire.
2 CHRONICLES: 8
Solomon moves Pharaoh’s daughter from Zion
2 CHRONICLES: 9
Queen of Sheba’s visits Solomon’s realm.
Solomon’s reign comes to an end.
2 CHRONICLES: 10
King Jeroboam takes ten tribes (Israel) to Samaria.
King Rehoboam rules Judah from Jerusalem.
Shemaiah stops war of Rehoboam with Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 11.
Prophet Shemaiah stops Reheboam warring with Jeroboam.
2 CHRONICLES: 12.
God uses Egypt to discipline wayward Judah.
Shemaiah reproves Judah’s Rehoboam for idolatry.
Limited repentance: limited relief
Temple vandalized by Egypt.
Jerusalem spared from total destruction.
2 CHRONICLES: 13.
King Abijah reigns in Judah; Jeroboam invades.
Abijah’s vain plea to avert civil war.
God intervenes after Jeroboam’s ambush.
Smitten Jeroboam dies after his defeat.
2 CHRONICLES: 14
Judah’s good king Asa banishes idolatry;
Judah defeats Ethiopian invaders.
2 CHRONICLES: 15.
The prophet exhorts Asa to fully remove idolatry.
2 CHRONICLES: 16.
Samaria’ siege of Jerusalem in civil war; Asa’s folly.
2 CHRONICLES: 17
Righteous King Jehoshaphat reigns in Judah.
2 CHRONICLES: 18
Jehoshaphat’s alliance with Israel’s evil Ahab.
2 CHRONICLES: 19
The prophet Jehu reproves Jehoshaphat.
2 CHRONICLES: 20
The test of Jehoshaphat in battle.
God uses Jehoshaphat to revive Judah.
The open public prayer meeting and its fruit.
Jehoshaphat renews alliance with wicked Ahab.
God’s royal blight on Judah for alliance with Israel..
2 CHRONICLES: 21
Judah’s Jehoram marries Ahab’s daughter,
Jehoram massacres royal princes of Judah and Samaria.
Elijah prophesies of God’s blight on King Jehoram.
The Arabs, Philistines & Ethiopians attack Judah
King Jehoram dies fulfilling Elijah’s prophecy.
2 CHRONICLES: 22
Arabs attack Jerusalem & murder the royal princes.
Judah’s royal curse by intermarriage with Ahab.
Jehu assassinates Judah’s Ahaziah and Israel’s Jehoram.
Ahab’s daughter massacres royal family of Judah & reigns.
2 CHRONICLES: 23
Jehoiada replaces Queen Athaliah with boy king: Joash.
Queen Athaliah, is executed for treason in Jerusalem.
Priest Jehoiada & Jehoshabeath bring Judah back to God.
2 CHRONICLES: 24
Coronation of the boy King Joash and his godly reign.
Joash martyrs Prophet Zechariah when he’s reproved.
God raises up Syria to punish Judah and afflict Joash.
Joash assassinated and his son Amaziah reigns over Judah.
2 CHRONICLES: 25
Amaziah massacres Esau’s descendants & is assassinated.
A prophet reproves Amaziah for his misalliance with Israel.
God penalises Judah for its forbidden brutality to Edomites;
God’s wrath on Judah for its idolatry & ignoring the prophet.
Israel defeats Judah and raids Jerusalem, its temple.
Amaziah is stricken with disease and then assassinated.
2 CHRONICLES: 26
Uzziah’s reign ends in blasphemous apostasy & leprosy.
2 CHRONICLES: 27
Righteous Jotham’s reign in Judah.
2 CHRONICLES: 28
Judah’s Ahaz shuts the temple; God’s wrath on Judah.
2 CHRONICLES: 29
King Hezekiah’s good reign & revival of Judaism.
2 CHRONICLES: 30
Hezekiah restores the feast of Passover.
2 CHRONICLES: 31
Hezekiah restores worship of Jehovah & the law.
2 CHRONICLES: 32
Isaiah and Hezekiah withstand Assyrian siege.
2 CHRONICLES: 33
Judah installs its most wicked king: Manasseh.2 CHRONICLES: 34
Josiah, the last good king of Judah, rules.
2 CHRONICLES: 35
Righteous Josiah killed in by Pharaoh & Jeremiah laments.
2 CHRONICLES: 36
Judah’s last days under puppet kings of Egypt & Babylon.
