Jerusalem

All 56 verses in 2 Kings, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 8:17

  Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.

• 2 Kings 8:26

  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

• 2 Kings 9:28

  Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David.

• 2 Kings 12:1

  In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

• 2 Kings 12:17

  At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 12:18

  So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 14:2

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 14:13

  There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

• 2 Kings 14:19

  And conspirators plotted against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

• 2 Kings 14:20

  They carried him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.

• 2 Kings 15:2

  He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 15:33

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.

• 2 Kings 16:2

  Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

• 2 Kings 16:5

  Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.

• 2 Kings 18:2

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

• 2 Kings 18:17

  Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

• 2 Kings 18:22

  But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

• 2 Kings 18:35

  Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

• 2 Kings 19:10

  “Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 19:21

  This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

• 2 Kings 19:31

  For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

• 2 Kings 21:1

  Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

• 2 Kings 21:4

  Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”

• 2 Kings 21:7

  Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

• 2 Kings 21:12

  this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.

• 2 Kings 21:13

  I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.

• 2 Kings 21:16

  Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

• 2 Kings 21:19

  Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

• 2 Kings 22:1

  Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

• 2 Kings 22:14

  So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.

• 2 Kings 23:1

  Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 23:2

  And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

• 2 Kings 23:4

  Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:5

  Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

• 2 Kings 23:6

  He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

• 2 Kings 23:9

  Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

• 2 Kings 23:13

  The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

• 2 Kings 23:20

  On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 23:23

  But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 23:24

  Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.

• 2 Kings 23:27

  For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”

• 2 Kings 23:30

  From Megiddo his servants carried his body in a chariot, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.

• 2 Kings 23:31

  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

• 2 Kings 23:33

  And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

• 2 Kings 23:36

  Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.

• 2 Kings 24:4

  and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

• 2 Kings 24:8

  Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 24:10

  At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

• 2 Kings 24:14

  He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.

• 2 Kings 24:15

  Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

• 2 Kings 24:18

  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

• 2 Kings 24:20

  For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:1

  So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

• 2 Kings 25:8

  On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 25:9

  He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

• 2 Kings 25:10

  And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

Events the dataset sets at Jerusalem. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1055 BC
   Reign of David2 Samuel 2:1–24:25
2. c. 1015 BC
   Death of David1 Kings 2:10–11
3. c. 1015 BC
   Reign of Solomon1 Kings 2:12–11:42
4. c. 1012 BC
   Construction of Solomon's Temple1 Kings 5:1–7:51
5. c. 975 BC
   Death of Solomon1 Kings 11:43
6. c. 975 BC
   Reign of Rehoboam1 Kings 12:17–24
7. c. 958 BC
   Reign of Abijam1 Kings 15:1–8
8. c. 956 BC
   Death of Abijam1 Kings 15:8
9. c. 956 BC
   Reign of Asa1 Kings 15:9–24
10. c. 914 BC
    Death of Asa1 Kings 15:24
11. c. 914 BC
    Reign of Jehoshaphat1 Kings 22:41–50
12. c. 893 BC
    Reign of Jehoram2 Kings 1:17–8:24

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.