2 Kings
Introduction

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Cruelty and Violence
Contradictions
Absurdities
Injustice
Intolerance
Family Values
Science and History
Language
Prophecy
Interpretation
Women
Homosexuality
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Science and History in 2 Kings

1. God sends two bears to rip up 42 little children for making fun of Elisha's bald head. 2:23-24

2. Elisha restores the life of a dead child, but only after laying on him a couple of times, putting his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on the child's eyes, and his hands on the child's hands. Finally, the child responds by sneezing seven times.
   Was this a miraculous healing or artificial respiration? 4:32-35

3. Elisha cures a leper, but only after the leper dips himself seven times in the Jordan. 5:14

4. Elisha not only can cure leprosy, he can also dish it out. Here he makes his servant (Gehazi) and all his descendants lepers forever. 5:27

5. A dead body is brought to life when it accidentally touches the bones of Elisha. 13:21

6. "So, king of Egypt"
   There was no king of Egypt of the time named "So" or with any similar name. 17:4

7. Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered." 20:7

8. Isaiah, with a little help from God, makes the sun move backwards ten degrees. Now that's quite a trick. All at once, the earth stopped spinning and then reversed its direction of rotation. Or maybe the sun traveled around the earth in those days! 20:11