Discovery Box| (0.20) | 1Sa 17:52 |
| Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. 1 They chased the Philistines to the valley 2 and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron. |
| (0.20) | 1Sa 20:41 |
| When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, 1 knelt 2 with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David. |
| (0.20) | 2Sa 4:12 |
| So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them 1 near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth 2 and buried it in the tomb of Abner 3 in Hebron. 4 |
| (0.20) | 1Ki 15:22 |
| King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. 1 King Asa used the materials to build up 2 Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah. |
| (0.20) | 1Ki 17:10 |
| So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup 1 of water, so I can take a drink.” |
| (0.20) | 1Ki 19:19 |
| Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him. |
| (0.20) | 1Ki 21:15 |
| When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she 1 said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.” |
| (0.20) | 2Ki 3:7 |
| He sent 1 this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?” Jehoshaphat 2 replied, “I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal.” 3 |
| (0.20) | 2Ki 9:26 |
| ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the Lord, “and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,” 1 says the Lord.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the Lord said.” 2 |
| (0.20) | 2Ki 23:11 |
| He removed from the entrance to the Lord’s temple the statues of horses 1 that the kings of Judah had placed there in honor of the sun god. (They were kept near the room of Nathan Melech the eunuch, which was situated among the courtyards.) 2 He burned up the chariots devoted to the sun god. 3 |
| (0.20) | 2Ki 23:12 |
| The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up 1 and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley. |
| (0.20) | 2Ki 25:1 |
| So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside 1 it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. 2 |
| (0.20) | 1Ch 28:2 |
| King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. 1 I have made the preparations for building it. |
| (0.20) | 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 |
| (0.20) | 2Ch 25:16 |
| While he was speaking, Amaziah 1 said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” 2 So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided 3 to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.” |
| (0.20) | 2Ch 33:14 |
| After this Manasseh 1 built up the outer wall of the City of David 2 on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah. |
| (0.20) | Ezr 3:2 |
| Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak 1 and his priestly colleagues 2 and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his colleagues 3 started to build 4 the altar of the God of Israel so they could offer burnt offerings on it as required by 5 the law of Moses the man of God. |
| (0.20) | Ezr 4:15 |
| so that he may initiate a search of the records 1 of his predecessors 2 and discover in those records 3 that this city is rebellious 4 and injurious to both kings and provinces, producing internal revolts 5 from long ago. 6 It is for this very reason that this city was destroyed. |
| (0.20) | Est 7:2 |
| On the second day of the banquet of wine the king asked Esther, “What is your request, Queen Esther? It shall be granted to you. And what is your petition? Ask up to half the kingdom, and it shall be done!” |
| (0.20) | Est 7:9 |
| Harbona, 1 one of the king’s eunuchs, said, “Indeed, there is the gallows that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke out in the king’s behalf. It stands near Haman’s home and is seventy-five feet 2 high.” The king said, “Hang him on it!” |
