Discovery Box| (0.44) | 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 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 22:10 |
| Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king. |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 23:18 |
| The king 1 said, “Leave it alone! No one must touch his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, as well as the bones of the Israelite prophet buried beside him. 2 |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 23:21 |
| The king ordered all the people, “Observe the Passover of the Lord your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.” |
| (0.44) | 2Ki 25:24 |
| Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. 1 He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.” |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 11:5 |
| The residents of Jebus said to David, “You cannot invade this place!” But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David). |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 11:6 |
| 1 David said, “Whoever attacks 2 the Jebusites first will become commanding general!” 3 So Joab son of Zeruiah attacked 4 first and became commander. 5 |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 13:12 |
| David was afraid of God that day and said, “How will I ever be able to bring the ark of God up here?” |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 14:14 |
| So David again asked God what he should do. 1 This time 2 God told him, “Don’t march up after them; circle around them and come against them in front of the trees. 3 |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 15:12 |
| He told them: “You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it. |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 15:16 |
| David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully. 1 |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 16:35 |
| Say this prayer: 1 “Deliver us, O God who delivers us! Gather us! Rescue us from the nations! Then we will give thanks 2 to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.” 3 |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 16:36 |
| May the Lord God of Israel be praised, in the future and forevermore. 1 Then all the people said, “We agree! 2 Praise the Lord!” |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 17:16 |
| David went in, sat before the Lord, and said: “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, 1 that you should have brought me to this point? |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 17:24 |
| so 1 it may become a reality 2 and you may gain lasting fame, 3 as people say, 4 ‘The Lord who commands armies is the God of Israel.’ 5 David’s dynasty 6 will be established before you, |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 19:12 |
| Joab 1 said, “If the Arameans start to overpower me, 2 you come to my rescue. If the Ammonites start to overpower you, 3 I will come to your rescue. |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 22:2 |
| David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple. |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 22:7 |
| David said to Solomon: “My son, I really wanted 1 to build a temple to honor 2 the Lord my God. |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 27:23 |
| David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky. |
| (0.44) | 1Ch 28:3 |
| But God said to me, ‘You must not build a temple to honor me, 1 for you are a warrior and have spilled blood.’ |
