Discovery Box| (0.44) | 2Ki 15:28 |
| He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord; he did not repudiate 2 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 15:35 |
| But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 15:37 |
| In those days the Lord prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah. 1 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 16:2 |
| Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 1 He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. 2 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 16:3 |
| He followed in the footsteps of 1 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, 2 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 3 whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 16:8 |
| Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were 1 in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute 2 to the king of Assyria. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 16:18 |
| He also removed the Sabbath awning 1 that had been built 2 in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria. 3 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:8 |
| they observed the practices 1 of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. 2 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:17 |
| They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, 1 and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. 2 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:18 |
| So the Lord was furious 1 with Israel and rejected them; 2 only the tribe of Judah was left. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:19 |
| Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel’s example. 1 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:20 |
| So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated 1 them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:28 |
| So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 1 He taught them how to worship 2 the Lord. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:32 |
| At the same time they worshiped 1 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 2 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:33 |
| They were worshiping 1 the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 17:35 |
| The Lord made an agreement 1 with them 2 and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 18:16 |
| At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated 1 and gave them to the king of Assyria. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 18:35 |
| Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” 1 |
| (0.44) | 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 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 20:3 |
| “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 1 faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 2 and how I have carried out your will.” 3 Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 |
