Discovery Box| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 18:21 |
| Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him. |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 18:31 |
| Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. 1 Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 19:4 |
| Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. 1 When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. 2 So pray for this remnant that remains.’” 3 |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 19:6 |
| Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 1 |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 19:20 |
| Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. 1 |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 19:32 |
| So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. 1 He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, 2 nor will he build siege works against it. |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 20:6 |
| I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’” 1 |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 20:14 |
| Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.” |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 20:20 |
| The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign and all his accomplishments, including how he built a pool and conduit to bring 1 water into the city, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 2 |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 21:3 |
| He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 1 and worshiped 2 them. |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 21:11 |
| “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. 1 He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. 2 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 22:18 |
| Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard: |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 23:2 |
| The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud 1 all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple. |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 23:5 |
| He eliminated 1 the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices 2 on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices 3 to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.) |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 23:11 |
| He removed from the entrance to the Lord’s temple the statues of horses 1 that the kings of Judah had placed there in honor of the sun god. (They were kept near the room of Nathan Melech the eunuch, which was situated among the courtyards.) 2 He burned up the chariots devoted to the sun god. 3 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 2Ki 23:25 |
| No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses. 1 |
