Discovery Box| (0.11) | 1Sa 21:2 |
| David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ 1 I have told my soldiers 2 to wait at a certain place. 3 |
| (0.11) | 1Sa 25:36 |
| When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time 1 and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing 2 until morning’s light. |
| (0.11) | 1Sa 31:4 |
| Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it. |
| (0.11) | 2Sa 5:8 |
| David said on that day, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must approach the ‘lame’ and the ‘blind’ who are David’s enemies 1 by going through the water tunnel.” 2 For this reason it is said, “The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace.” 3 |
| (0.11) | 2Sa 6:2 |
| David and all the men who were with him traveled 1 to 2 Baalah 3 in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name 4 of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it. |
| (0.11) | 2Sa 17:25 |
| Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married 1 Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.) |
| (0.11) | 2Sa 20:6 |
| Then David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord’s servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure 1 fortified cities for himself and get away from us.” |
| (0.11) | 1Ki 3:26 |
| The real mother 1 spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. 2 She said, “My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” 3 But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!” |
| (0.11) | 1Ki 10:5 |
| the food in his banquet hall, 1 his servants and attendants, 2 their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed. 3 |
| (0.11) | 1Ki 12:32 |
| Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, 1 like the festival celebrated in Judah. 2 On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. 3 In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made. |
| (0.11) | 1Ki 18:44 |
| The seventh time the servant 1 said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah 2 then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” 3 |
| (0.11) | 2Ki 3:13 |
| Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? 1 Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.” |
| (0.11) | 2Ki 6:22 |
| He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? 1 Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.” |
| (0.11) | 2Ki 7:10 |
| So they went and called out to the gatekeepers 1 of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. 2 But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.” 3 |
| (0.11) | 2Ki 9:15 |
| But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians 1 when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. 2 Jehu told his supporters, 3 “If you really want me to be king, 4 then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.” |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | 2Ki 12:4 |
| Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal 1 all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, 2 the silver received from those who have made vows, 3 and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple. 4 |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | 2Ki 18:31 |
| Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. 1 Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, |
| (0.11) | 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 |
