Discovery Box| (0.15) | 2Ki 17:6 |
| In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel 1 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes. |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 17:7 |
| This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of 1 Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped 2 other gods; |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 17:9 |
| The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. 1 They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. 2 |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 17:11 |
| They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry. 1 |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 17:23 |
| Finally 1 the Lord rejected Israel 2 just as he had warned he would do 3 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day. |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 18:2 |
| He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother 2 was Abi, 3 the daughter of Zechariah. |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 18:10 |
| After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured. |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 18:18 |
| They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them. |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 19:2 |
| He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, 1 clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz: |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 19:18 |
| They have burned the gods of the nations, 1 for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them. 2 |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 19:35 |
| That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they 1 got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. 2 |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 20:9 |
| Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?” 1 |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 20:17 |
| ‘Look, a time is 1 coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 22:2 |
| He did what the Lord approved 1 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; 2 he did not deviate to the right or the left. |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 22:3 |
| In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders: 1 |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 22:5 |
| Have them hand it over to the construction foremen 1 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, 2 |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 23:10 |
| The king 1 ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. 2 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 25:22 |
| Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over the people whom he allowed to remain in the land of Judah. 1 |
| (0.15) | 1Ch 2:21 |
| Later 1 Hezron had sexual relations with 2 the daughter of Makir, the father of Gilead. (He had married 3 her when he was sixty years old.) She bore him Segub. |
