Books of the Bible / 2 Kings
Random Verse from 2 Kings
Roll a random verse from 2 Kings -- 25 chapters, 719 verses -- with the same crypto-secure, unbiased draw as the main generator, scoped to just this book.
“He said, “Take it.” So he put out his hand and took it.”
2 Kings 6:7
World English Bible (WEB) — public domain
About 2 Kings (summary)
2 Kings is book 12 of 66 in the Protestant canon, part of the Old Testament. It runs 25 chapters and 719 verses in the World English Bible (WEB) — public domain -- both counts computed directly from this site's own copy of that data, the same pool this roller draws from, not entered by hand.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is 2 Kings compared to other books of the Bible?
2 Kings is the 20th longest of the 66 books by verse count, with 719 verses across 25 chapters -- an average of 28.8 verses per chapter.
What translation is the text drawn from?
The World English Bible (WEB) — public domain, a public-domain English translation, so every verse can be quoted here in full without a license. The reference and wording are looked up from this site's own copy of that same text, not paraphrased.
Where does 2 Kings sit among the other Old Testament books?
2 Kings is book 12 of 39 in the Old Testament, and book 12 of 66 overall in the Protestant canon.
What books come right before and after 2 Kings?
1 Kings comes directly before it (22 chapters). 1 Chronicles comes directly after it (29 chapters).
How is the random verse actually chosen?
With the Web Crypto API's cryptographically-secure random number generator, picking uniformly among all 719 verses in 2 Kings -- not a pseudo-random Math.random() draw, and not weighted toward well-known verses, so an obscure genealogy verse has exactly the same chance of coming up as a famous one.