Discovery Box| (0.17) | 2Ch 31:3 |
| The king contributed 1 some of what he owned for burnt sacrifices, including the morning and evening burnt sacrifices and the burnt sacrifices made on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other appointed times prescribed 2 in the law of the Lord. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 31:13 |
| Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath, and Benaiah worked under the supervision of Konaniah and his brother Shimei, as directed by King Hezekiah and Azariah, the supervisor of God’s temple. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 32:15 |
| Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how 1 can your gods rescue 2 you from my power?’” |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 32:21 |
| The Lord sent a messenger 1 and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib 2 returned home humiliated. 3 When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons 4 struck him down with the sword. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 32:31 |
| So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, 1 God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives. 2 |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 33:8 |
| I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, 1 provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.” |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 33:19 |
| The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself. 1 |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 34:30 |
| The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 34:33 |
| Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged 1 all who were in Israel to worship the Lord their God. Throughout the rest of his reign 2 they did not turn aside from following the Lord God of their ancestors. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 35:8 |
| His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God’s temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 35:15 |
| The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. 1 The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 35:18 |
| A Passover like this had not been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had observed a Passover like the one celebrated by Josiah, the priests, the Levites, all the people of Judah and Israel who were there, and the residents of Jerusalem. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 35:24 |
| So his servants took him out of the chariot, put him in another chariot that he owned, and brought him to Jerusalem, 1 where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors; 2 all the people of Judah and Jerusalem mourned Josiah. |
| (0.17) | 2Ch 36:17 |
| He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered 1 their young men in their temple. 2 He did not spare 3 young men or women, or even the old and aging. God 4 handed everyone over to him. |
| (0.17) | Ezr 1:3 |
| Anyone from 1 his people among you (may his God be with him!) may go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may build the temple of the Lord God of Israel – he is the God who is in Jerusalem. |
| (0.17) | Ezr 3:7 |
| So they provided money 1 for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon 2 and Tyre, 3 so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport 4 at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia. |
| (0.17) | Ezr 3:9 |
| So Jeshua appointed both his sons and his relatives, 1 Kadmiel and his sons (the sons of Yehudah 2 ), to take charge of the workers in the temple of God, along with the sons of Henadad, their sons, and their relatives 3 the Levites. |
| (0.17) | Ezr 3:12 |
| Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders 1 – older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established 2 – were weeping loudly, 3 and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout. |
| (0.17) | Ezr 4:2 |
| they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders 1 and said to them, “Let us help you build, 2 for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him 3 from the time 4 of King Esarhaddon 5 of Assyria, who brought us here.” 6 |
| (0.17) | Ezr 6:9 |
| Whatever is needed – whether oxen or rams or lambs or burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by 1 the priests who are in Jerusalem – must be given to them daily without any neglect, |
