May 2026

READ: 2 Kin. 15:1–38: … he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam … King Azariah, also called Uzziah, follows in the footsteps of his father Amaziah. A priest named Zechariah first leads him in the right way, just as his grandfather Joash was instructed by Jehoiada. But Uzziah, as king, begins to offer the

READ: 2 Kin. 14:1–29: … Amaziah … king of Judah … he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like his father David … Judah was struck down by Israel … Jeroboam … he did what was evil … the LORD saw … that Israel had no helper … Amaziah, who

READ: 2 Kin. 13:1–25: … what was evil in the eyes of the LORD … Then follow two kings of Israel, Jehoahaz and Joash, who as son and grandson of Jehu are both just as evil as Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. They also practice self-willed religion and ignore the Word

READ: 2 Kin. 12:21: … Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him … his servants … struck him so that he died … Joash, under the leadership of the God-fearing Jehoiada, shows himself as a king who wants to live and reign

READ: 2 Kin. 11:1–21: … Joash was seven years old when he became king. After Jehu has killed Ahaziah at the age of twenty-two, Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel and wife of Ahaziah, wants in revenge to kill all the relatives of Ahaziah, including children. . By this, the whole offspring of David would be exterminated. In

READ: 2 Kin. 10:1–36: … The LORD has done what He spoke by the hand of His servant Elijah … until he had wiped it away, according to the word of the LORD … After Jehu has killed Joram, king of Israel, Ahaziah, king of Judah, and Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, he intends to kill

READ: 2 Kin. 9:1–37: … I will cut off from Ahab all the males … Despite the great decline in the royal houses of both the ten-tribe and the two-tribe kingdom, the LORD still shows patience. For He wants to cause a lamp to shine: to preserve a descendant of David with a view to

READ: 2 Kin. 8:1–29: … famine … after seven years … let her receive back all that was hers … why is my lord weeping … evil … Jehoram … the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah for the sake of His servant David … to give him a lamp all his days for

READ: 2 Kin. 6:24–7:20: … my son we boiled and ate … you shall see it with your own eyes, but not eat of it … the sound of a great army … there was no one anymore … according to the word of the LORD … the people trampled him in the gate …

READ: 2 Kin. 6:1–23: … Bring it to yourself … Strike this people, I pray, with blindness … Do not kill them … so he sent them away … The prophet-disciples are distraught when they attempt to build a new dwelling with limited resources and a borrowed axe falls into the water. But Elijah performs