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King Ahaziah falls and is hurt. He sends messengers to ask a false god, Baal Zebub, if he will get well. Elijah meets them and asks if there is no God in Israel. The king sends soldiers to bring Elijah, and fire falls from heaven on two groups. The third captain begs humbly, and an angel tells Elijah to go with him. Ahaziah dies as God said.
Elijah and Elisha walk together from Gilgal to Bethel, Jericho, and the Jordan. Elijah strikes the water with his coat, and it parts. Elisha asks for a double share of Elijah's spirit. A chariot of fire comes, and Elijah goes up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha takes Elijah's coat, parts the Jordan, and heals the water of Jericho.
Moab rebels against Israel. Jehoram king of Israel, Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and the king of Edom march out together, but they run out of water. Elisha tells them God will fill the valley with water without wind or rain. In the morning the water comes, and God gives them victory over Moab.
Elisha helps a poor widow, whose little oil fills many jars so she can pay her debt. A kind woman in Shunem makes a room for Elisha, and God gives her a son. When the boy dies, Elisha prays and God brings him back to life. Elisha also makes poisoned stew safe and feeds a hundred men with twenty loaves.
Naaman, a Syrian army commander, has leprosy. A young servant girl from Israel tells his wife about Elisha. Elisha tells Naaman to wash seven times in the Jordan. Naaman is angry at first, but his servants persuade him. He washes and is healed, and he says there is no God in all the earth but in Israel. Gehazi greedily takes gifts and lies, and Naaman's leprosy comes on him.
Elisha makes a borrowed ax head float. The king of Syria tries to capture Elisha, and an army surrounds the city of Dothan. Elisha's servant is afraid, but Elisha prays, and the servant sees the hills full of horses and chariots of fire. God strikes the Syrians blind, and Elisha leads them to Samaria, where they are fed and sent home.
Samaria is starving under siege. Elisha says that by tomorrow food will be cheap. An officer doubts. Four men with leprosy go to the Syrian camp and find it empty, because God made the Syrians hear the sound of a great army. The men realize they must share the good news. Food fills Samaria, just as Elisha said.
The Shunammite woman leaves during a famine, as Elisha warned. When she returns, the king gives back her land while Gehazi is telling him about her son. Elisha weeps as he tells Hazael he will become king of Syria and harm Israel. In Judah, Jehoram and Ahaziah do evil, but God does not destroy Judah for David's sake.
Elisha sends a young prophet to anoint Jehu king of Israel. God gives Jehu the task of judging Ahab's house. Jehu rides fast to Jezreel. King Joram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah are killed. Jezebel is thrown from a window and dies, as Elijah had said.
Jehu brings God's judgment on the rest of Ahab's house. He calls all the worshipers of Baal to a great gathering, then destroys them and tears down the temple of Baal. God commends Jehu for this, but Jehu does not walk with God with all his heart. He keeps Jeroboam's golden calves, and God begins to cut away parts of Israel.
Wicked Athaliah seizes Judah's throne and tries to wipe out the royal family. Baby Joash is hidden by his aunt Jehosheba in the temple for six years. Then Jehoiada the priest crowns seven-year-old Joash. Athaliah is removed, the people make a covenant to be the Lord's people, and they tear down the house of Baal.
Joash does what is right while Jehoiada the priest teaches him. He orders the temple repaired. When the priests are slow, Jehoiada puts a chest with a hole in its lid beside the altar, and the people give money for the workers, who are honest. Later Joash gives temple treasures to Hazael to turn him away, and Joash's servants kill him.
Jehoahaz of Israel does evil, and Hazael oppresses Israel, but when Jehoahaz seeks the Lord, God gives a deliverer. When Elisha is dying, King Jehoash visits him. Elisha tells him to shoot an arrow of victory and strike the ground, but he strikes only three times. After Elisha dies, a dead man thrown into his tomb comes to life when he touches Elisha's bones.
Amaziah of Judah does right but not like David. He defeats Edom, then proudly challenges Jehoash of Israel. Jehoash warns him with a story of a thistle and a cedar, but Amaziah will not listen. Judah is defeated, Jerusalem's wall is broken, and the temple treasures are taken. In Israel, God uses Jeroboam II to restore Israel's borders out of mercy.
Azariah (also called Uzziah) does right in Judah but is struck with leprosy and lives in a separate house while his son Jotham governs. In Israel, kings come and go quickly: Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah, most taking the throne by conspiracy. God's word to Jehu about four generations comes true. Assyria begins to take Israelites captive. Jotham of Judah does right and builds the upper gate of the temple.
Ahaz of Judah does not do right like David. He follows the ways of Israel's kings and the nations. When Syria and Israel attack, he sends temple silver and gold to the king of Assyria for help instead of trusting God. He copies a pagan altar from Damascus and changes the temple to please Assyria.
Hoshea, the last king of Israel, rebels against Assyria. Shalmaneser besieges Samaria for three years, captures it, and carries Israel away to Assyria. The writer explains why: Israel worshiped other gods, though the Lord warned them again and again by His prophets. Assyria brings in other peoples, who fear the Lord but also serve their own gods.
Hezekiah does right like David. He removes the high places and breaks the bronze serpent Moses made, because people burned incense to it. He trusts in the Lord more than any king of Judah. When Sennacherib of Assyria invades, his officer the Rabshakeh mocks Hezekiah's trust and tells the people not to listen to him. The people stay silent, as the king commanded.
Hezekiah tears his clothes, goes to the temple, and sends to the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah says not to be afraid. When Sennacherib sends a threatening letter, Hezekiah spreads it before the Lord and prays that all kingdoms may know the Lord alone is God. Isaiah brings God's answer. That night the angel of the Lord strikes the Assyrian camp, and Sennacherib goes home.
Hezekiah becomes deathly sick. He prays and weeps, and God hears him, adding fifteen years to his life. As a sign, God makes the shadow go back ten steps on the sundial. Later Hezekiah proudly shows envoys from Babylon all his treasures. Isaiah warns that one day everything will be carried away to Babylon.
Manasseh becomes king at twelve and reigns fifty-five years. He undoes his father Hezekiah's reforms, rebuilds the high places, puts altars to false gods in the Lord's house, and leads Judah to do more evil than the nations. God declares that judgment will come on Jerusalem. His son Amon also does evil and is killed by his servants, and young Josiah becomes king.
Josiah becomes king at eight and does right, walking in David's ways. While the temple is being repaired, Hilkiah the high priest finds the book of the law. When it is read to Josiah, he tears his clothes in grief. The prophetess Huldah says judgment will come, but because Josiah's heart was tender and he humbled himself, it will not come in his days.
Josiah reads the book of the covenant to all the people and makes a covenant to follow the Lord with all his heart. He removes every idol from the temple and the land, tears down the altar at Bethel as a man of God had foretold long before, and keeps a Passover like none since the judges. No king turned to the Lord like Josiah. Yet the Lord's anger against Judah because of Manasseh remains. Josiah dies at Megiddo, and Egypt and then Babylon rule Judah's kings.
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon rises to power. Jehoiakim serves him, then rebels, and the Lord sends raiders against Judah because of Manasseh's sins. Jehoiachin reigns only three months before Babylon besieges Jerusalem. He surrenders, and Nebuchadnezzar carries away the king, the leaders, ten thousand captives, the craftsmen, and the temple treasures, as Isaiah had warned. Zedekiah is made king and rebels against Babylon.
Zedekiah rebels, and Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem until famine is severe. The wall is broken, Zedekiah flees and is captured, and the Babylonians burn the temple, the palace, and the city and break down its walls. Most of the people are carried into exile, and only the poorest are left to tend the vineyards. Gedaliah is made governor but is killed. In the last scene, King Jehoiachin is released from prison in Babylon and eats at the king's table.