Discovery Box| (0.10) | 1Ki 18:44 |
| The seventh time the servant 1 said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah 2 then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” 3 |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 21:19 |
| Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood – yes, yours!”’” |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 22:35 |
| While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot. |
| (0.10) | 1Ki 22:39 |
| The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 1 |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 1:2 |
| Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria 1 and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, 2 “Go, ask 3 Baal Zebub, 4 the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.” |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 4:1 |
| Now a wife of one of the prophets 1 appealed 2 to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. 3 Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.” |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 5:7 |
| When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? 1 Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” 2 |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 5:15 |
| He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman 1 came and stood before him. He said, “For sure 2 I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant.” |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 5:20 |
| Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, 1 “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. 2 As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.” |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 6:22 |
| He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? 1 Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.” |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 7:13 |
| One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) 1 Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” 2 |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 8:5 |
| While Gehazi 1 was telling the king how Elisha 2 had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. 3 Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!” |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 8:9 |
| So Hazael went to visit Elisha. 1 He took along a gift, 2 as well as 3 forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son, 4 King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, 5 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 9:21 |
| Jehoram ordered, “Hitch up my chariot.” 1 When his chariot had been hitched up, 2 King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots 3 to meet Jehu. They met up with him 4 in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 10:24 |
| They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, “If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!” 1 |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 12:4 |
| Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal 1 all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, 2 the silver received from those who have made vows, 3 and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple. 4 |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 13:25 |
| Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from 1 Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities. |
| (0.10) | 2Ki 15:25 |
| His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace. 1 Pekah then took his place as king. |
| (0.10) | 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 |
| (0.10) | 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 |
