Discovery Box| (0.09) | 2Ki 17:4 |
| The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 1 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 2 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 3 |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 17:26 |
| The king of Assyria was told, 1 “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people 2 because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.” |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 18:4 |
| He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. 1 He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time 2 the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan. 3 |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 18:22 |
| Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’ |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 19:4 |
| Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. 1 When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. 2 So pray for this remnant that remains.’” 3 |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 21:7 |
| He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 1 |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 22:20 |
| ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 1 You will not have to witness 2 all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king. |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 23:5 |
| He eliminated 1 the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices 2 on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices 3 to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.) |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 23:8 |
| He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined 1 the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. 2 He tore down the high place of the goat idols 3 situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate. |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 23:13 |
| The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 1 that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom. |
| (0.09) | 2Ki 24:2 |
| The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. 1 |
| (0.09) | 1Ch 11:22 |
| Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a brave warrior from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab; 1 he also went down and killed a lion inside a cistern on a snowy day. |
| (0.09) | 1Ch 20:2 |
| David took the crown from the head of their king 1 and wore it 2 (its weight was a talent 3 of gold and it was set with precious stones). He took a large amount of plunder from the city. |
| (0.09) | 1Ch 21:12 |
| three 1 years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, 2 or three days being struck down by the Lord, during which a plague will invade the land and the Lord’s messenger will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’ 3 Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.” |
| (0.09) | 1Ch 25:1 |
| David and the army officers selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy as they played stringed instruments and cymbals. 1 The following men were assigned this responsibility: 2 |
| (0.09) | 2Ch 2:12 |
| Huram also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord God of Israel, who made the sky and the earth! He has given David a wise son who has discernment and insight and will build a temple for the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 1 |
| (0.09) | 2Ch 4:6 |
| He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.” |
| (0.09) | 2Ch 5:1 |
| When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple. |
| (0.09) | 2Ch 6:38 |
| When they return to you with all their heart and being 1 in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, 2 |
| (0.09) | 2Ch 9:4 |
| the food in his banquet hall, 1 his servants and attendants 2 in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, 3 she was amazed. 4 |
