Discovery Box| (0.14) | 2Ch 34:20 |
| The king ordered Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, 1 Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 34:25 |
| This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices 1 to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. 2 My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’” |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 35:7 |
| From his own royal flocks and herds, Josiah supplied the people with 30,000 lambs and goats for the Passover sacrifice, as well as 3,000 cattle. 1 |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 35:20 |
| After Josiah had done all this for the temple, 1 King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. 2 Josiah marched out to oppose him. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 36:10 |
| At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought 1 to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative 2 Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 36:14 |
| All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. 1 They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 36:15 |
| The Lord God of their ancestors 1 continually warned them through his messengers, 2 for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 36:16 |
| But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, 1 and ridiculed his prophets. 2 Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. 3 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 1:2 |
| “Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: “‘The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has instructed me to build a temple 1 for him in Jerusalem, 2 which is in Judah. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 1:5 |
| Then the leaders 1 of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites – all those whose mind God had stirred – got ready 2 to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. 3 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 1:6 |
| All their neighbors assisted 1 them with silver utensils, 2 gold, equipment, animals, and expensive gifts, not to mention 3 all the voluntary offerings. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 1:7 |
| Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the Lord’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed 1 in the temple of his gods. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 2:70 |
| The priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel lived in their towns. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 3:6 |
| From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. However, the Lord’s temple was not at that time established. 1 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 4:7 |
| And during the reign 1 of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, 2 Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues 3 wrote to King Artaxerxes 4 of Persia. This letter 5 was first written in Aramaic but then translated. [Aramaic:] 6 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 4:9 |
| From 1 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues – the judges, the rulers, the officials, the secretaries, the Erechites, the Babylonians, the people of Susa (that is, 2 the Elamites), |
| (0.14) | Ezr 5:6 |
| This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and his colleagues who were the officials of Trans-Euphrates sent to King Darius. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 5:12 |
| But after our ancestors 1 angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands 2 of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. 3 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 5:15 |
| He said to him, “Take these vessels and go deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt in its proper location.” 1 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 6:21 |
| The Israelites who were returning from the exile ate it, along with all those who had joined them 1 in separating themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to seek the Lord God of Israel. |
