Discovery Box| (0.12) | 1Ki 12:32 |
| Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, 1 like the festival celebrated in Judah. 2 On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. 3 In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made. |
| (0.12) | 1Ki 13:22 |
| You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” 1 Therefore 2 your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” 3 |
| (0.12) | 1Ki 15:18 |
| Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it 1 to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message: |
| (0.12) | 1Ki 15:22 |
| King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. 1 King Asa used the materials to build up 2 Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah. |
| (0.12) | 1Ki 15:29 |
| When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, 1 just as the Lord had predicted 2 through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. |
| (0.12) | 1Ki 22:13 |
| Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. 1 Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” 2 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 1:9 |
| The king 1 sent a captain and his fifty soldiers 2 to retrieve Elijah. 3 The captain 4 went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. 5 He told him, “Prophet, 6 the king says, ‘Come down!’” |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 1:13 |
| The king 1 sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell 2 on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours. |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 2:14 |
| He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, 1 hit the water with it, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over. |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 7:4 |
| If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, 1 and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect 2 to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, 3 we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” 4 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 7:6 |
| The Lord had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!” |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 7:9 |
| Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. 1 If we wait until dawn, 2 we’ll be punished. 3 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.” |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 7:10 |
| So they went and called out to the gatekeepers 1 of the city. They told them, “We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn’t even hear a man’s voice. 2 But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.” 3 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 11:2 |
| So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked 1 him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. 2 So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution. 3 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 13:21 |
| One day some men 1 were burying a man when they spotted 2 a raiding party. So they threw the dead man 3 into Elisha’s tomb. When the body 4 touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man 5 came to life and stood on his feet. |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 18:22 |
| Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’ |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 22:13 |
| “Go, seek an oracle from 1 the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about 2 the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, 3 because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.” 4 |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | 2Ki 23:35 |
| Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh’s demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho. 1 |
