Discovery Box| (0.25) | 2Ch 10:4 |
| “Your father made us work too hard! 1 Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” 2 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 26:23 |
| Uzziah passed away 1 and was buried near his ancestors 2 in a cemetery 3 belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) 4 His son Jotham replaced him as king. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 34:28 |
| ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 1 You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king. |
| (0.25) | Ezr 1:4 |
| Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors 1 with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.’” |
| (0.25) | Ezr 1:5 |
| Then the leaders 1 of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites – all those whose mind God had stirred – got ready 2 to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. 3 |
| (0.25) | Est 5:8 |
| If I have found favor in the king’s sight and if the king is inclined 1 to grant my request and perform my petition, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them. At that time 2 I will do as the king wishes. 3 |
| (0.25) | Psa 139:16 |
| Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. 1 All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence. 2 |
| (0.25) | Psa 143:8 |
| May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, 1 for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, 2 because I long for you. 3 |
| (0.25) | Ecc 12:5 |
| and they are afraid of heights and the dangers 1 in the street; the almond blossoms 2 grow white, 3 and the grasshopper 4 drags itself along, 5 and the caper berry 6 shrivels up 7 – because man goes to his eternal home, 8 and the mourners go about in the streets – |
| (0.25) | Isa 30:14 |
| It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. 1 Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough 2 to scoop a hot coal from a fire 3 or to skim off water from a cistern.” 4 |
| (0.25) | Isa 30:28 |
| His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river 1 that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; 2 he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction. 3 |
| (0.25) | Isa 42:5 |
| This is what the true God, 1 the Lord, says – the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, 2 the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it: 3 |
| (0.25) | Isa 47:14 |
| Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat 1 of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy. 2 |
| (0.25) | Isa 48:6 |
| You have heard; now look at all the evidence! 1 Will you not admit that what I say is true? 2 From this point on I am announcing to you new events that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. 3 |
| (0.25) | Isa 48:17 |
| This is what the Lord, your protector, 1 says, the Holy One of Israel: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go. |
| (0.25) | Isa 51:17 |
| Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you, which was full of his anger! 1 You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine. 2 |
| (0.25) | Isa 59:19 |
| In the west, people respect 1 the Lord’s reputation; 2 in the east they recognize his splendor. 3 For he comes like a rushing 4 stream driven on by wind sent from the Lord. 5 |
| (0.25) | Jer 15:18 |
| Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?” 1 |
| (0.25) | Jer 19:3 |
| Say, ‘Listen to what the Lord says, you kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem! 1 The Lord God of Israel who rules over all 2 says, “I will bring a disaster on this place 3 that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it ring! 4 |
| (0.25) | Jer 22:6 |
| “‘For the Lord says concerning the palace of the king of Judah, “This place looks like a veritable forest of Gilead to me. It is like the wooded heights of Lebanon in my eyes. But I swear that I will make it like a wilderness whose towns have all been deserted. 1 |
