Discovery Box| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:4 |
| But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of 1 Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army. |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:7 |
| Then they went to the fortress of Tyre 1 and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beer Sheba. |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:9 |
| Joab reported the number of warriors 1 to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers. |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:12 |
| “Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three forms of judgment. Pick one of them and I will carry it out against you.’” |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:14 |
| David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer that we be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is great; I do not want to be attacked by men!” 1 |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:15 |
| So the Lord sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba. |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:18 |
| So Gad went to David that day and told him, “Go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:20 |
| When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he 1 went out and bowed to the king with his face 2 to the ground. |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:22 |
| Araunah told David, “My lord the king may take whatever he wishes 1 and offer it. Look! Here are oxen for burnt offerings, and threshing sledges 2 and harnesses 3 for wood. |
| (0.22) | 2Sa 24:25 |
| Then David built an altar for the Lord there and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And the Lord accepted prayers for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 2:24 |
| Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty 1 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!” |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 4:24 |
| His royal court was so large because 1 he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah 2 to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors. 3 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 6:24 |
| Each of the first cherub’s wings was seven and a half feet long; its entire wingspan was 15 feet. 1 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 7:38 |
| He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. 1 Each basin was six feet in diameter; 2 there was one basin for each stand. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 8:24 |
| You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; 1 this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 13:24 |
| As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. 1 His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 14:24 |
| There were also male cultic prostitutes 1 in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations 2 that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 16:24 |
| He purchased the hill of Samaria 1 from Shemer for two talents 2 of silver. He launched a construction project there 3 and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 17:24 |
| The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.” 1 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 22:24 |
| Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?” |
