Discovery Box| (0.01) | 2Ki 11:11 |
| The royal bodyguard 1 took their stations, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king. 2 |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 12:11 |
| They would then hand over 1 the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen 2 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple, |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 12:13 |
| The silver brought to the Lord’s temple was not used for silver bowls, trimming shears, basins, trumpets, or any kind of gold or silver implements. |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 12:21 |
| His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. 1 He was buried 2 with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king. |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 13:2 |
| He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord. He continued in 2 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins. 3 |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 13:5 |
| The Lord provided a deliverer 1 for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. 2 The Israelites once more lived in security. 3 |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 14:11 |
| But Amaziah would not heed the warning, 1 so King Jehoash of Israel attacked. 2 He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face 3 in Beth Shemesh of Judah. |
| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 15:5 |
| The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease 1 until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 2 while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land. |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 15:9 |
| He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate 2 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 15:14 |
| Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to 1 Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. 2 He killed him and took his place as king. |
| (0.01) | 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, |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 15:19 |
| Pul 1 king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid 2 him 3 a thousand talents 4 of silver to gain his support 5 and to solidify his control of the kingdom. 6 |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 15:30 |
| Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him 1 and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah. |
| (0.01) | 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. |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 16:6 |
| (At that time King Rezin of Syria 1 recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. 2 Syrians 3 arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.) |
| (0.01) | 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. |
| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | 2Ki 17:11 |
| They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry. 1 |
| (0.01) | 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. |
