Discovery Box| (0.29) | 2Ch 33:16 |
| He erected the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of 1 Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel. |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 34:26 |
| 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: |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 35:8 |
| His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God’s temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle. |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 35:22 |
| But Josiah did not turn back from him; 1 he disguised himself for battle. He did not take seriously 2 the words of Necho which he had received from God; he went to fight him in the Plain of Megiddo. 3 |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 36:5 |
| Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. 1 He did evil in the sight of 2 the Lord his God. |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 36:16 |
| But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, 1 and ridiculed his prophets. 2 Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. 3 |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 36:17 |
| He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered 1 their young men in their temple. 2 He did not spare 3 young men or women, or even the old and aging. God 4 handed everyone over to him. |
| (0.29) | Ezr 1:2 |
| “Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: “‘The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has instructed me to build a temple 1 for him in Jerusalem, 2 which is in Judah. |
| (0.29) | Ezr 1:4 |
| Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors 1 with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.’” |
| (0.29) | Ezr 1:5 |
| Then the leaders 1 of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites – all those whose mind God had stirred – got ready 2 to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. 3 |
| (0.29) | Ezr 2:68 |
| When they came to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders 1 offered voluntary offerings for the temple of God in order to rebuild 2 it on its site. |
| (0.29) | Ezr 4:24 |
| So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia. 1 |
| (0.29) | Ezr 5:1 |
| Then the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son 1 of Iddo 2 prophesied concerning the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem 3 in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. |
| (0.29) | Ezr 5:5 |
| But God was watching over 1 the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped 2 until a report could be dispatched 3 to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this. |
| (0.29) | Ezr 5:11 |
| They responded to us in the following way: ‘We are servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the temple which was previously built many years ago. A great king 1 of Israel built it and completed it. |
| (0.29) | Ezr 5:12 |
| But after our ancestors 1 angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands 2 of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. 3 |
| (0.29) | Ezr 5:16 |
| Then this Sheshbazzar went and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem. From that time to the present moment 1 it has been in the process of being rebuilt, although it is not yet finished.’ |
| (0.29) | Ezr 6:17 |
| For the dedication of this temple of God they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. |
| (0.29) | Ezr 6:21 |
| The Israelites who were returning from the exile ate it, along with all those who had joined them 1 in separating themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to seek the Lord God of Israel. |
| (0.29) | Ezr 7:9 |
| On the first day of the first month he had determined to make 1 the ascent from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he arrived at Jerusalem, 2 for the good hand of his God was on him. |
