Discovery Box| (0.32) | 2Ki 15:25 |
| His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. 1 Pekah then took his place as king. |
| (0.32) | 2Ki 17:26 |
| The king of Assyria was told, 1 “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people 2 because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.” |
| (0.32) | 2Ki 18:32 |
| until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.” |
| (0.32) | 2Ki 23:5 |
| He eliminated 1 the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices 2 on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices 3 to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.) |
| (0.32) | 2Ch 7:7 |
| Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, 1 and the fat from the peace offerings there, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was too small to hold all these offerings. 2 |
| (0.32) | 2Ch 9:8 |
| May the Lord your God be praised because he favored 1 you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! 2 Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, 3 he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” 4 |
| (0.32) | 2Ch 10:13 |
| The king responded to the people harshly. He 1 rejected the advice of the older men |
| (0.32) | 2Ch 11:5 |
| Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem; 1 he built up these fortified cities throughout Judah: |
| (0.32) | 2Ch 16:3 |
| “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 1 See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 2 |
| (0.32) | Ezr 5:14 |
| Even the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and had brought to the palace 1 of Babylon – even those things King Cyrus brought from the palace of Babylon and presented 2 to a man by the name of Sheshbazzar whom he had appointed as governor. |
| (0.32) | Neh 6:10 |
| Then I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel. He was confined to his home. 1 He said, “Let’s set up a time to meet in the house of God, within the temple. Let’s close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. It will surely be at night that they will come to kill you.” |
| (0.32) | Neh 13:26 |
| Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made 1 him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin! |
| (0.32) | Est 1:22 |
| He sent letters throughout all the royal provinces, to each province according to its own script and to each people according to its own language, 1 that every man should be ruling his family 2 and should be speaking the language of his own people. 3 |
| (0.32) | Est 3:6 |
| But the thought of striking out against 1 Mordecai alone was repugnant to him, for he had been informed 2 of the identity of Mordecai’s people. 3 So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews (that is, the people of Mordecai) 4 who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus. |
| (0.32) | Est 7:8 |
| When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet of wine, Haman was throwing himself down 1 on the couch where Esther was lying. 2 The king exclaimed, “Will he also attempt to rape the queen while I am still in the building!” As these words left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. |
| (0.32) | Job 1:22 |
| In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety. 1 |
| (0.32) | Job 15:32 |
| Before his time 1 he will be paid in full, 2 and his branches will not flourish. 3 |
| (0.32) | Psa 25:13 |
| They experience his favor; 1 their descendants 2 inherit the land. 3 |
| (0.32) | Psa 103:8 |
| The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient 1 and demonstrates great loyal love. 2 |
| (0.32) | Psa 116:5 |
| The Lord is merciful and fair; our God is compassionate. |
