Melissa 1st Ward

Some related questions:

• What do you think the mantle being passed from Elijah to Elisha meant?
• How might the events following Elisha becoming the prophet be like what prophets experience today?
• What might it look like to be a King Jehoshaphat today?
• What might it look like to be a King Jehoram?
• How can you be like King Jehoshaphat and point others to the living prophet?
• What are some things the living prophet has asked you to do that might be hard, like Elisha asked the soldiers to dig the ditches when they were already in great need of water?
• What blessing will come to you if you still do that hard thing?
• What are some ditches you have dug by faith?
• What can you learn from the Shunammite woman?
• In what ways do you relate to Naaman?
• What are some small but significant things the prophet today has invited you to do?
• What lessons can you learn from Gehazi’s story?
• What are things today that might cause someone to ignore what the prophet has said?
• What can we do to be more like Elisha and “fear not” when we feel surrounded by evil?
• What can you learn from how the king was blaming Elisha and the Lord?

Some related questions:

• What have you learned about the scattering of Israel that you did not know before?
• What do you learn from Hezekiah’s leadership?
• What tactics did Rab-shekah use to weaken Judah so they would surrender?
• Why do you think the Lord counseled Hezekiah to set his house in order?
• What do you think Manasseh did to seduce people to do more evil than the nations that had lived on the land before them?
• Why do you think they could turn to such wickedness so quickly?
• What do you think King Josiah should do with the scriptures that had been found?
• How did Huldah use her spiritual gifts to bless the king and all of Judah?
• Why do you think it was important for Josiah to so thoroughly cleanse the land?
• What arguments or threats do you imagine the people who wanted to keep the idol worship may have had against Josiah?
• Why do you think Josiah put on such a grand Passover?
• Why do you think removing the idols, the high places, and the priests were not enough to bring all of Judah into repentance?
• If you would have been the king of Judah at this time, what would YOU have done to try to secure the safety of the kingdom of Judah?
• What do you think it was like in Jerusalem when so many people were being carried off?
• If you were a prophet living in those days, before Babylon destroyed Jerusalem, what would you have said?