Elisha follows in Elijah’s steps

2 Kings 4

• God’s supply during hard times (vs 1-7)
• The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, and the Lord giveth again (vs 8-37)
• A deadly diet (vs 38-41)
• A precursor to the feeding of the 5000 (vs 42-44)

2 Kings 5

• A young girl’s testimony of the power of God (vs 1-5)
• The military leader who takes orders (vs 6-19)
• Covetousness in the house of God’s servant (vs 20-27)

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Elijah leaves and Elisha leads

2 Kings 2

• Elisha was determined not to leave Elijah’s side in the last days of the elder’s life on earth (vs 1-6)
• Like Solomon before him, Elisha was allowed to ask one request-he wanted double of the spirit that animated Elijah (9-10)
• He wasted no time testing whether his prayer had been answered (vs 14)
• When a group of younger men went looking for the body of the raptured Elijah, the new leader told them that there was nothing to find (vs 15-18)
• Water is a precious commodity in the arid middle east. What wouldn’t men give if they could sweeten the brackish waters (vs 19-22)
• Have you ever come face to face with a wild bear? (vs 23-25)

2 Kings 3

• Jehoshaphat apparently forgot that helping those who hate the Lord is a bad thing (vs 1-8)
• Jehoshaphat found himself in trouble once again for his associating with the unrighteous (vs 9-11)
• Jehoshaphat’s presence was the only reason that God was merciful to the king of Israel (vs 12-14)
• God intervened and brought confusion upon the Moabite and made them an easy prey for the Israelites (vs 15-26)
• The king of Moab killed his eldest son for a sacrifice (vs 27)

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Like father, like son

• Ahaziah was wicked like his father Ahab and his mother Jezebel
• Ahaziah was religious, but he worshiped Baal and not the true God
• Ahaziah provoked the Lord to anger
• Ahaziah’s accident prompted him to seek spiritual counsel-from the god of the Philistines!
• Ahaziah immediately recognized that it had been Elijah who intercepted the king’s messengers with bad news.
• Ahaziah foolishly sent soldiers to arrest Elijah-not once, but three times.
• Ahaziah was visited by Elijah who condemned the king’s ignorance of God and announced that the king would not recover from his fall. (His physical fall was accompanied by his spiritual fall.)

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Lessons Jehoshaphat Learned

2 Chronicles 19

• You should not help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord (2 Chronicles 19:2)
• There is no iniquity with God; He is not prejudiced, nor does He take bribes (2 Chronicles 19:7)
• The Lord shall be with the good (2 Chronicles 19:11)

2 Chronicles 20

• God is great; nobody can stand against Him (2 Chronicles 20:6-7)
• The battles of the righteous are God’s battles (2 Chronicles 20:15)
• If we would but stand still, we would see the salvation of the Lord (2 Chronicles 20:17)

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