Discovery Box| (0.29) | 2Ki 21:19 |
| Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother 2 was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 22:8 |
| Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 22:16 |
| “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 the king of Judah has read. 1 |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 23:17 |
| He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 1 who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.” |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 23:19 |
| Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. 1 He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 2 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 23:22 |
| He issued this edict because 1 a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah. 2 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 23:27 |
| The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, 1 just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.” 2 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 23:36 |
| Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah. |
| (0.29) | 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 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 24:7 |
| The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 24:12 |
| King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered 1 to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, 2 took Jehoiachin 3 prisoner. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 24:16 |
| The king of Babylon deported to Babylon all the soldiers (there were 7,000), as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metal workers. This included all the best warriors. 1 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 24:18 |
| Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother 2 was Hamutal, 3 the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 24:20 |
| What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. 1 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 25:7 |
| Zedekiah’s sons were executed while Zedekiah was forced to watch. 1 The king of Babylon 2 then had Zedekiah’s eyes put out, bound him in bronze chains, and carried him off to Babylon. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 25:11 |
| Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. 1 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 25:13 |
| The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the “The Sea.” 1 They took the bronze to Babylon. |
| (0.29) | 1Ch 2:3 |
| The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, 1 a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him. 2 |
