Q. Who succeeded him? A. Amaziah, his son. 2 Kings xii, 21. A. His son Jehoahaz. 2 Kings xiii, 1. Q. What was his character? A. He was a very wicked king. 2 Kings xiii, 2. Q. Whom did the Lord bring against Israel? A. The king of Syria. 2 Kings xiii, 3. Q. How long did Jehoahaz reign? A. Seventeen years. 2 Kings xiii, 1. Q. Was he like his father? A. He was. 2 Kings xiii, 11. Q. How long was he king? A. Sixteen years. 2 Kings xiii, 10. Q. Who was his successor? A. Jeroboam, his son. 2 Kings xiii, 13. A. The prophet Elisha. 2 Kings xiii, 20. Q. What happened some time afterward when a dead man was placed upon his bones? A. The dead man revived, and stood up again. 2 Kings xiii, 21. Q. How long did Amaziah, the son of Joash, reign over Judah? A. Twenty-nine years. 2 Kings xiv, 2. Q. What was his character? A. He was a good king. 2 Kings xiv, 3. Q. What befell him? A. He was slain in a conspiracy. 2 Kings xiv, 19, 20. Q. What did the people of Judah do? A. They made Azariah, his son, king. 2 Kings xiv, 21. Q. How long did he reign? A. Fifty-two years. 2 Kings xv, 2. Q. What is said of him? A. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. 2 Kings xv, 3. Q. What happened to him in his old age? Q. Who reigned in his stead? A. Jotham his son. Q. Who succeeded Jeroboam over Israel? Q. What was his character? A. He was a wicked king. 2 Kings xv, 9. Q. What was his end? A. He was slain in a conspiracy by Shallum. 2 Kings xv, 10. Q. How long had he reigned? A. Only six months. Q. Of whom was he the last descendant? A. Of Jehu. 2 Kings xv, 12. Q. How long did Shallum reign? A. Thirty days. 2 Kings xv, 13. Q. What became of him? A. He was slain by Menahem, who reigned ten years. 2 Kings xv, 14, 17. 2. Was he any better than his predecessors? A. He was not. 2 Kings xv, 18. Q. To whom did he become tributary? A. To the king of Assyria. 2 Kings xv, 19. Q. Who followed him? A. His son Pekahiah, who reigned but two years. 2 Kings xv, 22, 23. Q. What do we know of him? A. Only that he did evil in the sight of the Lord. 2 Kings xv, 24. Q. What became of him? A. He was slain by Pekah, one of his generals. 2 Kings xv, 25. Q. How long did he reign? A. Twenty years. 2 Kings xv, 27. Q. Like whom was he? A. Like to Jeroboam in his sin. 2 Kings xv, 28. Q. What became of him? A. He fell by the hand of Hoshea, who reigned in his stead. 2 Kings xv, 30. Q. Who succeeded Jotham as king of Judah? Q. What is said of him? A. He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. 2 Kings xvi, 3. Q. Of what especial sin was he guilty? A. He made his son pass through the fire to an idol. Q. What did he place in the temple? A. An idolatrous altar. 2 Kings xvi, 11, 16. A. His son Hezekiah. 2 Kings xvi, 20. Q. Who came against Hoshea, king of Israel? A. Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. 2 Kings xvii, 3. Q. How long did he besiege Samaria? A. Three years. 2 Kings xvii, 5. Q. What then happened? A. He took Samaria, and carried Israel away captive into Assyria. 2 Kings xvii, 6. Q. Why did the Lord permit this? A. On account of their sins. 2 Kings xvii, 7. Q. Whom had the Lord sent to warn them? A. Numerous prophets. 2 Kings xvii, 13. A. They would not, but hardened their necks. 2 Kings xvii, 14. Q. Whom did the king of Assyria place in their cities? A. Men from Babylon and other cities of Assyria. 2 Kings xvii, 24. Q. What was their character? A. They feared not the Lord. 2 Kings xvii, 25. Q. What did he send among them? A. Lions, which slew some of them. Q. Whom did they desire the king of Assyria to send them? A. One of the priests of Israel. 2 Kings xvii, 26. Q. For what purpose? A. To teach them the manner of the God of the land. Q. What is said of their course after this? A. They feared the Lord, and served their own gods. 2 Kings xvii, 33. Q. What were these people called in our Saviour's day? A. Samaritans. LESSON XXXVI. Good King Hezekiah-Captivity in Babylon. 2 KINGS XVIII-XXIV. Question. Who succeeded Ahaz as king of Judah ? Q. How long did he reign? A. Twenty-nine years. 2 Kings xviii, 2. A. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did. 2 Kings xviii, 3. Q. Who was with him? A. The Lord was with him, and he prospered whithersoever he went. 2 Kings xviii, 7. Q. Who came up against him in his fourteenth year? Q. What was the name of the captain of his host? Q. What did he cry out to the people of Jerusalem? Q. What did he say of other countries? 4. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 2 Kings xviii, 33. Q. What did Hezekiah do when he heard it? A. He went into the house of the Lord and prayed. 2 Kings xix, 1. |