Discovery Box| (0.20) | 1Sa 15:23 |
| For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and presumption is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as 1 king.” |
| (0.20) | 1Sa 23:17 |
| He said to him, “Don’t be afraid! For the hand of my father Saul cannot find you. You will rule over Israel, and I will be your second in command. Even my father Saul realizes this.” |
| (0.20) | 1Ki 12:6 |
| King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 1 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 2 “How do you advise me to answer these people?” |
| (0.20) | 1Ki 20:12 |
| When Ben Hadad received this reply, 1 he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. 2 He ordered his servants, “Get ready to attack!” So they got ready to attack the city. |
| (0.20) | 2Ki 18:21 |
| Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him. |
| (0.20) | 2Ki 19:21 |
| This is what the Lord says about him: 1 “The virgin daughter Zion 2 despises you, she makes fun of you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you. 3 |
| (0.20) | 2Ki 19:29 |
| 1 This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: 2 This year you will eat what grows wild, 3 and next year 4 what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. 5 |
| (0.20) | 2Ch 10:6 |
| King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 1 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 2 “How do you advise me to answer these people?” |
| (0.20) | 2Ch 23:7 |
| The Levites must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever tries to enter the temple 1 must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.” 2 |
| (0.20) | Ezr 9:15 |
| O Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt 1 no one can really stand before you.” |
| (0.20) | Psa 88:1 |
| A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; 2 a well-written song 3 by Heman the Ezrachite. O Lord God who delivers me! 4 By day I cry out and at night I pray before you. 5 |
| (0.20) | Isa 7:4 |
| Tell him, ‘Make sure you stay calm! 1 Don’t be afraid! Don’t be intimidated 2 by these two stubs of smoking logs, 3 or by the raging anger of Rezin, Syria, and the son of Remaliah. |
| (0.20) | Isa 14:8 |
| The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, 1 as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, 2 ‘Since you fell asleep, 3 no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ 4 |
| (0.20) | Isa 18:5 |
| For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, 1 he will cut off the unproductive shoots 2 with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils. 3 |
| (0.20) | Isa 41:22 |
| “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, 1 so we may examine them 2 and see how they were fulfilled. 3 Or decree for us some future events! |
| (0.20) | Isa 50:10 |
| Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys 1 his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, 2 without light, should trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. |
| (0.20) | Jer 2:8 |
| Your priests 1 did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ 2 Those responsible for teaching my law 3 did not really know me. 4 Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. 5 They all worshiped idols that could not help them. 6 |
| (0.20) | Jer 11:16 |
| I, the Lord, once called 1 you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you 2 on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. 3 Then all your branches will be good for nothing. 4 |
| (0.20) | Jer 34:15 |
| Recently, however, you yourselves 1 showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own. 2 |
| (0.20) | Jer 39:16 |
| “Go 1 and tell Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, “I will carry out against this city what I promised. It will mean disaster and not good fortune for it. 2 When that disaster happens, you will be there to see it. 3 |
