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2 Kings


Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by William H. Johnson
The Fiery Ascent of the Prophet Elijah by Unknown artist
Elijah Went Up by a Whirlwind into Heaven (Chariot of Fire) by Shlomo Katz

2 Kings 2:1–12 Elijah’s Ascent

Beginning of Second Kings with historiated initial showing the messengers of Elijah and Ahaziah, from the Winchester Bible by Unknown English artist known as the Master of the Leaping Figures
Elisha and the Sons of the Prophets by Gerhard Remisch
The Drunkenness of Noah; The Mocking of Christ; Children mocking the prophet Elisha, from a Biblia Pauperum by Unknown Netherlandish artist

2 Kings 2:12–25 Elisha Begins

View of Emily Dickinson's bedroom at the Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, Massachusetts by Unknown artist
Frida Kahlo, wife of Rivera, a painter herself (Frida Kahlo in her bed) by Gisèle Freund
Resting with the Ancestors by Charlie Watts and Tricia Hersey

2 Kings 4:8–37 Making Room for Care and Creativity

Waterfall on the Abana, near Damascus by Francis Frith
A man in Oriental Costume (King Uzziah Stricken by Leprosy) by Rembrandt van Rijn
Seven Scenes from the Story of the Seven Sacraments, Namaan Being Cleansed in the Jordan

2 Kings 5 The Healing of Naaman

Rage, Flower Thrower by Banksy
The miraculously floating axe-head: followers of Elisha cut trees near the river Jordan from Guiard des Moulins, Grande Bible Historiale Complétée by Jan Boudolf
100 Billion Suns by Katie Paterson

2 Kings 6:1–23 Logics of Reversal


Show all exhibitions from the Bible book 1 Kings
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More Exhibitions

General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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