Discovery Box| (0.35) | 2Ch 10:15 |
| The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events 1 so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made 2 through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 11:21 |
| Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. 1 He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 12:9 |
| King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 15:16 |
| King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother 1 from her position as queen mother 2 because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 16:6 |
| King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. 1 He used the materials to build up 2 Geba and Mizpah. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 16:14 |
| He was buried in the tomb he had carved out in the City of David. 1 They laid him to rest on a bier covered with spices and assorted mixtures of ointments. They made a huge bonfire to honor him. 2 |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 17:2 |
| He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons 1 throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 21:6 |
| He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. 1 He did evil in the sight of 2 the Lord. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 21:19 |
| After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. 1 His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. 2 |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 22:1 |
| The residents of Jerusalem 1 made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. 2 So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 22:7 |
| God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. 1 When Ahaziah 2 arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned 3 to wipe out Ahab’s family. 4 |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 24:7 |
| (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.) |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 24:22 |
| King Joash disregarded 1 the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s 2 son. As Zechariah 3 was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” 4 |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 26:10 |
| He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands 1 and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, 2 for he loved agriculture. 3 |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 26:11 |
| Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 26:20 |
| When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at 1 him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king 2 himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 26:23 |
| Uzziah passed away 1 and was buried near his ancestors 2 in a cemetery 3 belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) 4 His son Jotham replaced him as king. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 27:2 |
| He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. 1 (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) 2 Yet the people were still sinning. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 28:18 |
| The Philistines had raided the cities of Judah in the lowlands 1 and the Negev. They captured and settled in Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its surrounding villages, Timnah and its surrounding villages, and Gimzo and its surrounding villages. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 29:15 |
| They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word 1 of the Lord. |
