Discovery Box| (0.36) | 2Ki 15:18 |
| 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. 3 During his reign, |
| (0.36) | 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. |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | 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. |
| (0.36) | 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. |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | 2Ki 17:16 |
| They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, 1 and worshiped 2 Baal. |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | 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. |
| (0.36) | 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. |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | 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. |
| (0.36) | 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. |
| (0.36) | 2Ki 17:41 |
| These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day. |
| (0.36) | 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. |
| (0.36) | 2Ki 19:6 |
| Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 1 |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | 2Ki 19:32 |
| So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. 1 He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, 2 nor will he build siege works against it. |
| (0.36) | 2Ki 19:35 |
| That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they 1 got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. 2 |
