Discovery Box| (0.12) | 2Ch 32:22 |
| The Lord delivered Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem from the power of King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the other nations. 1 He made them secure on every side. 2 |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 32:23 |
| Many were bringing presents 1 to the Lord in Jerusalem and precious gifts to King Hezekiah of Judah. From that time on he was respected by 2 all the nations. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 32:26 |
| But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. 1 |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 33:3 |
| He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 1 and worshiped 2 them. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 33:9 |
| But Manasseh misled the people of 1 Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 33:11 |
| So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, 1 bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 33:22 |
| He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped 2 them. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 34:2 |
| He did what the Lord approved 1 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; 2 he did not deviate to the right or the left. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 34:7 |
| he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 34:10 |
| They handed it over to the construction foremen 1 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it. 2 |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 34:11 |
| They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair. 1 |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 34:14 |
| When they took out the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the Lord had given to Moses. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 34:24 |
| “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah. |
| (0.12) | 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!’” |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 36:9 |
| Jehoiachin was eighteen 1 years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. 2 He did evil in the sight of 3 the Lord. |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 2Ch 36:21 |
| This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. 1 The land experienced 2 its sabbatical years; 3 it remained desolate for seventy years, 4 as prophesied. 5 |
| (0.12) | Ezr 7:11 |
| What follows 1 is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priestly scribe. 2 Ezra was 3 a scribe in matters pertaining to the commandments of the Lord and his statutes over Israel: |
| (0.12) | Ezr 8:29 |
| Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, 1 in the storerooms of the temple of the Lord.” |
