Discovery Box| (0.28) | 2Ki 18:26 |
| Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, 1 for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect 2 in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 19:3 |
| “This is what Hezekiah says: 1 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 2 and humiliation, 3 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 4 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 19:20 |
| Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. 1 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 19:37 |
| One day, 1 as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 2 his sons 3 Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 4 They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 20:1 |
| In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 1 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” 2 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 21:7 |
| He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 1 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:6 |
| He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. 1 He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. 2 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:13 |
| The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 1 that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:15 |
| He also tore down the altar in Bethel 1 at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. 2 He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole. 3 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:30 |
| His servants transported his dead body 1 from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, 2 and made him king in his father’s place. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:34 |
| Pharaoh Necho made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in Josiah’s place, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz to Egypt, where he died. 1 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 24:2 |
| The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. 1 |
| (0.28) | 1Ch 2:3 |
| The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, 1 a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him. 2 |
| (0.28) | 1Ch 2:23 |
| (Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair, 1 along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead. |
| (0.28) | 1Ch 4:18 |
| (His Judahite wife gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.) These were the sons of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah, whom Mered married. 1 |
| (0.28) | 1Ch 6:49 |
| But Aaron and his descendants offered sacrifices on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar for incense as they had been assigned to do in the most holy sanctuary. 1 They made atonement for Israel, just as God’s servant Moses had ordered. 2 |
| (0.28) | 1Ch 6:57 |
| The descendants of Aaron were also allotted as cities 1 of refuge Hebron, Libnah and its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa and its pasturelands, |
| (0.28) | 1Ch 7:2 |
| The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, 1 and Samuel. 2 They were leaders of their families. 3 In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records. 4 |
| (0.28) | 1Ch 7:7 |
| The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. The five of them were leaders of their families. There were 22,034 warriors listed in their genealogical records. |
| (0.28) | 1Ch 7:40 |
| All these were the descendants of Asher. They were the leaders of their families, the most capable men, who were warriors and served as head chiefs. There were 26,000 warriors listed in their genealogical records as capable of doing battle. 1 |
