Discovery Box| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 13:3 |
| The Lord was furious with 1 Israel and handed them over to 2 King Hazael of Syria and to Hazael’s son Ben Hadad for many years. 3 |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 13:11 |
| 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; he continued in those sins. 3 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 14:14 |
| He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. 1 Then he went back to Samaria. 2 ( |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 14:24 |
| 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. |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 15:12 |
| His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, 1 “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” 2 That is exactly what happened. 3 |
| (0.12) | 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, |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 16:3 |
| He followed in the footsteps of 1 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, 2 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 3 whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites. |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 17:17 |
| They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, 1 and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. 2 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 17:20 |
| So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated 1 them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence. |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 17:29 |
| But each of these nations made 1 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria 2 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived. |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 17:32 |
| At the same time they worshiped 1 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 2 |
