Discovery Box| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:18 |
| Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped 1 Baal a little; Jehu will worship 2 him with great devotion. 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:19 |
| So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. 1 None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them 2 so he could destroy the servants of Baal. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:20 |
| Then Jehu ordered, “Make arrangements for 1 a celebration for Baal.” So they announced it. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:21 |
| Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end. 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:22 |
| Jehu ordered the one who was in charge of the wardrobe, 1 “Bring out robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:23 |
| Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu 1 said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.” 2 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:26 |
| They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:28 |
| So Jehu eradicated Baal worship 1 from Israel. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 10:29 |
| However, Jehu did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat had encouraged Israel to commit; the golden calves remained in Bethel 1 and Dan. 2 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 12:7 |
| So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.” 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 12:11 |
| They would then hand over 1 the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen 2 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple, |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 12:14 |
| It was handed over 1 to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 12:15 |
| They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed 1 the funds to the foremen, for they were honest. 2 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 14:6 |
| But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, 1 “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, 2 and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. 3 A man must be put to death only for his own sin.” 4 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 14:9 |
| King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal 1 of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. 2 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 14:12 |
| Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home. 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 14:14 |
| He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. 1 Then he went back to Samaria. 2 ( |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 14:25 |
| He restored the border of Israel from Lebo Hamath in the north to the sea of the Arabah in the south, 1 in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel announced through 2 his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 15:12 |
| His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, 1 “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” 2 That is exactly what happened. 3 |
