Discovery Box| (0.14) | 2Ch 23:6 |
| No one must enter the Lord’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the Lord. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 25:7 |
| But a prophet 1 visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. 2 |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 25:8 |
| Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you 1 before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.” 2 |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 26:16 |
| But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. 1 He disobeyed 2 the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 28:1 |
| 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, in contrast to his ancestor David. 2 |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 28:3 |
| He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, 1 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 2 whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 28:7 |
| Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed the king’s son Maaseiah, Azrikam, the supervisor of the palace, and Elkanah, the king’s second-in-command. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 28:10 |
| And now you are planning 1 to enslave 2 the people 3 of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God? |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 28:12 |
| So some of 1 the Ephraimite family leaders, Azariah son of Jehochanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jechizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai confronted 2 those returning from the battle. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 28:24 |
| Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 29:6 |
| For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of 1 the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned 2 away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. 3 |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 30:15 |
| They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the Lord’s temple. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 31:5 |
| When the edict was issued, 1 the Israelites freely contributed 2 the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 31:12 |
| they brought in the contributions, tithes, 1 and consecrated items that had been offered. 2 Konaniah, a Levite, was in charge of all this, assisted by his brother Shimei. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 31:14 |
| Kore son of Imnah, a Levite and the guard on the east side, was in charge of the voluntary offerings made to God and disbursed the contributions made to the Lord and the consecrated items. |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 31:16 |
| They made disbursements to all the males three years old and up who were listed in the genealogical records – to all who would enter the Lord’s temple to serve on a daily basis and fulfill their duties as assigned to their divisions. 1 |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 32:1 |
| After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them. 1 |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 32:11 |
| Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power 1 of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! 2 |
| (0.14) | 2Ch 32:12 |
| Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 1 the Lord’s 2 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.” |
| (0.14) | 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 |
