Discovery Box| (0.60) | 2Ki 14:2 |
| He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother 2 was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 14:15 |
| The rest of the events of Jehoash’s 1 reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 2 |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 14:28 |
| The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 1 |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 15:2 |
| He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 15:30 |
| Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him 1 and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah. |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 16:2 |
| Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 1 He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. 2 |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 16:10 |
| When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. 1 King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. 2 |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 17:7 |
| This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of 1 Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped 2 other gods; |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 17:27 |
| So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you 1 deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” 2 |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 17:34 |
| To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship 1 the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave 2 the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 17:35 |
| The Lord made an agreement 1 with them 2 and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 18:2 |
| He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother 2 was Abi, 3 the daughter of Zechariah. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 18:9 |
| In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched 1 up against Samaria 2 and besieged it. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 18:11 |
| The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel 1 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 18:18 |
| They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them. |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 18:25 |
| Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March 1 up against this land and destroy it.’”’” 2 |
| (0.60) | 2Ki 19:3 |
| “This is what Hezekiah says: 1 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 2 and humiliation, 3 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 4 |
