Part of the Old Testament
| Book | Summary | Interpretations |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Kings 1 | Ahaziah consults Baal-zebub of Ekron; Elijah calls down fire. | |
| 2 Kings 2 | Elijah is taken up in a whirlwind; Elisha receives his spirit. | A chariot of fire takes him into the sky. |
| 2 Kings 3 | War with Moab; Mesha sacrifices his son; wrath falls on Israel. | The wrath after Mesha's sacrifice |
| 2 Kings 4 | Elisha's miracles: oil, the Shunammite's son, the poisoned pot. | |
| 2 Kings 5 | Naaman is healed and asks for earth to worship the LORD. | |
| 2 Kings 6 | The floating axe head; the army of Aram is blinded; siege of Samaria. | |
| 2 Kings 7 | The siege ends; the four lepers. | |
| 2 Kings 8 | The Shunammite's land; Hazael becomes king of Aram. | |
| 2 Kings 9 | Jehu is anointed and kills Joram and Jezebel. | |
| 2 Kings 10 | Jehu kills Ahab's house and the worshippers of Baal. | |
| 2 Kings 11 | Athaliah seizes Judah; young Joash is crowned. | |
| 2 Kings 12 | Joash repairs the Temple. | |
| 2 Kings 13 | Elisha dies; a dead man revives at his bones. | |
| 2 Kings 14 | Amaziah of Judah and Jeroboam II of Israel. | |
| 2 Kings 15 | Kings of Judah and Israel; Assyria rises. | |
| 2 Kings 16 | Ahaz makes his son pass through fire and copies an altar from Damascus. | |
| 2 Kings 17 | Samaria falls to Assyria; foreign peoples bring their own gods. | |
| 2 Kings 18 | Hezekiah destroys the bronze serpent; Sennacherib threatens Jerusalem. | |
| 2 Kings 19 | Hezekiah prays; the angel of the LORD strikes the Assyrian camp. | |
| 2 Kings 20 | Hezekiah's illness and the shadow on the dial. | |
| 2 Kings 21 | Manasseh builds altars for the host of heaven and burns his son. | |
| 2 Kings 22 | Josiah finds the book of the law. | |
| 2 Kings 23 | Josiah removes Asherah, Molech's Topheth and the high places. | Moloch |
| 2 Kings 24 | Babylon attacks; Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin; the first exile. | |
| 2 Kings 25 | Jerusalem and the Temple are destroyed; Gedaliah is murdered. |
Through the lens of many gods
The wrath after Mesha’s sacrifice (2 Kings 3:27)
Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
2 Kings 3:27 (KJV)
Commentators usually say Israel’s army was frightened or disgusted.
The king of Moab burns his firstborn on the wall. Then “great indignation” falls on Israel and Israel leaves. The Hebrew word is qetseph, wrath. I read it as the power of Chemosh answering the sacrifice and driving Israel off his land.
I should be honest that the text never says whose wrath it was.
See also The Gods in the Bible and Moloch.
