Quotes about Israel
Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
— 2 Kings 5:12
Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
— 2 Kings 5:15
Now the king of Aram was at war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
— 2 Kings 6:8
Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful passing by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
— 2 Kings 6:9
For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
— 2 Kings 6:11
So the king prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. And the Aramean raiders did not come into the land of Israel again.
— 2 Kings 6:23
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
— 2 Kings 6:26
In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.
— 2 Kings 8:16
And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
— 2 Kings 8:18
In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
— 2 Kings 8:25
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 8:26
So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel.
— 2 Kings 9:6