The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings
The Second Book of Kings is F. W. Farrar's contribution to The Expositor's Bible, the series of popular commentaries edited by W. Robertson Nicoll in the 1890s. Farrar, Dean of Canterbury and author of a famous Life of Christ, retells the history of the two Hebrew kingdoms from the death of Ahab to the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC: the ascension of Elijah and the miracles of Elisha, Naaman, the revolt of Jehu and the end of Baal worship, Athaliah, the dynasty of Jehu and the prophets Amos and Hosea, the fall of Samaria, Hezekiah and the Assyrian siege, Josiah's reformation, and the last kings of Judah under Babylon. Appendices discuss Assyrian inscriptions and chronology. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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