Message Notes

(I) ISRAEL UNDER JEHOAHAZ

1. Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu as king of Israel (2 Kings 13:1)

2. Features of his 17 year reign (2 Kings 13:2)

a) Did evil in the sight of the Lord (2 Kings 13:2a)

b) Worshipped the idols Jeroboam I created (2 Kings 13:2, 8)

c) Oppression from Syria

i) Hazael (2 Kings 12:3)

ii) Ben Hadad (son of Hazael) (2 Kings 12:3)

d) Plea of Jehoahaz for mercy from the Lord (2 Kings 13:4)

e) God delivered Israel from Syria’s oppression (2 Kings 13:5)

f) Depleted army (2 Kings 13:7)

i) 50 horsemen

ii) 10 chariots

iii) 10,000 foot soldiers

(II) ISRAEL UNDER JEHOASH (JOASH), SON OF JEHOAHAZ

1. Joash reigned 16 years (2 Kings 13:10)

2. He fought against Amaziah, king of Judah (2 Kings 13:12)

(III) DEATH OF ELISHA

1. In the reign of Jehoash (Joash) (2 Kings 13:14-21)

2. Joash visits Elisha (2 Kings 13:14)

3. Elisha’s bestowal of a boon to Joash

a) Using the symbol of a bow and arrow (2 Kings 13:15-19)

b) Joash did not fully fathom or did not believe Elisha’s word to him

c) He struck the ground with his arrows only three times (2 Kings 13:18)

d) Prediction: He would now never defeat Syria completely

4. Death and burial of Elisha (2 Kings 13:20-22)

a) Attack of the Moabites

b) Miracle of raising a corpse who was buried hurriedly in the tomb of Elisha

(IV) SYRIAN OPPRESSION

1. Attack by Hazael of Syria in the reign of Jehoahaz (2 Kings 13:22)

a) Special deliverance from the Lord (2 Kings 13:23)

b) Israel saved from destruction

2. Menace of Ben-Hadad, son of Hazael (2 Kings 13:24)

3. Joash was able to defeat Syria only three times (2 Kings 13:18, 25)