Discovery Box| (0.45) | 2Ki 10:21 |
| Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end. 1 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 10:31 |
| But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. 1 He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit. 2 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 11:9 |
| The officers of the units of hundreds did just as 1 Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported 2 to Jehoiada the priest. |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 12:12 |
| as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses. 1 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 13:14 |
| Now Elisha had a terminal illness. 1 King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. 2 He wept before him and said, “My father, my father! The chariot 3 and horsemen of Israel!” 4 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 13:25 |
| Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from 1 Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities. |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 14:6 |
| But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, 1 “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, 2 and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. 3 A man must be put to death only for his own sin.” 4 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 14:15 |
| The rest of the events of Jehoash’s 1 reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 2 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 15:16 |
| At that time Menahem came from Tirzah and attacked Tiphsah. He struck down all who lived in the city and the surrounding territory, because they would not surrender. 1 He even ripped open the pregnant women. |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 16:10 |
| When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. 1 King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. 2 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 16:11 |
| Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. 1 Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. 2 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 16:14 |
| He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new 1 altar. |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 16:17 |
| King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took “The Sea” 1 down from the bronze bulls that supported it 2 and put it on the pavement. |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 17:4 |
| The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 1 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 2 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 3 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 17:9 |
| The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. 1 They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. 2 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 17:13 |
| The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 1 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 17:23 |
| Finally 1 the Lord rejected Israel 2 just as he had warned he would do 3 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day. |
| (0.45) | 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.” |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 17:27 |
| So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you 1 deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” 2 |
| (0.45) | 2Ki 17:36 |
| Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; 1 bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him. |
