Discovery Box| (0.10) | 1Ch 22:5 |
| David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, 1 and the temple to be built for the Lord must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. 2 Therefore I will make preparations for its construction.” So David made extensive preparations before he died. |
| (0.10) | 1Ch 22:8 |
| But the Lord said to me: 1 ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, 2 for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me. |
| (0.10) | 1Ch 22:14 |
| Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. 1 I have stored up 100,000 talents 2 of gold, 1,000,000 3 talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more! |
| (0.10) | 1Ch 23:24 |
| These were the descendants of Levi according to their families, that is, the leaders of families as counted and individually listed who carried out assigned tasks in the Lord’s temple and were twenty years old and up. 1 |
| (0.10) | 1Ch 25:1 |
| David and the army officers selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy as they played stringed instruments and cymbals. 1 The following men were assigned this responsibility: 2 |
| (0.10) | 1Ch 29:11 |
| O Lord, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign 1 over all the sky and earth! You have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler 2 of all. |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 2:6 |
| Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky 1 and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him. 2 |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 5:2 |
| Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders – all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families – in Jerusalem, 1 so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David 2 (that is, Zion). 3 |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 6:34 |
| “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 1 and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 2 |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 7:6 |
| The priests stood in their assigned spots, along with the Levites who had the musical instruments used for praising the Lord. 1 (These were the ones King David made for giving thanks to the Lord and which were used by David when he offered praise, saying, “Certainly his loyal love endures.”) 2 Opposite the Levites, 3 the priests were blowing the trumpets, while all Israel stood there. |
| (0.10) | 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 |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 7:10 |
| On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon 1 sent the people home. They left 2 happy and contented 3 because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel. |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 7:14 |
| if my people, who belong to me, 1 humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, 2 and repudiate their sinful practices, 3 then I will respond 4 from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 5 |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 8:11 |
| Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David 1 to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.” |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 9:4 |
| the food in his banquet hall, 1 his servants and attendants 2 in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, 3 she was amazed. 4 |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 12:5 |
| Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’” 1 |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 12:9 |
| King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made. |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 12:13 |
| King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; 1 he 2 was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. 3 Rehoboam’s 4 mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 14:13 |
| and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; 1 they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah 2 carried off a huge amount of plunder. |
| (0.10) | 2Ch 15:2 |
| He met 1 Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. 2 If you seek him, he will respond to you, 3 but if you reject him, he will reject you. |
