Discovery Box| (0.40) | 2Ki 12:11 |
| They would then hand over 1 the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen 2 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple, |
| (0.40) | 2Ki 16:11 |
| Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. 1 Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. 2 |
| (0.40) | 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 |
| (0.40) | 2Ki 21:3 |
| He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 1 and worshiped 2 them. |
| (0.40) | 2Ki 23:13 |
| The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 1 that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom. |
| (0.40) | 2Ki 25:1 |
| So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside 1 it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. 2 |
| (0.40) | 1Ch 6:32 |
| They performed music 1 before the sanctuary 2 of the meeting tent until Solomon built the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem. 3 They carried out their tasks according to regulations. |
| (0.40) | 1Ch 17:6 |
| Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say 1 to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, 2 ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’ |
| (0.40) | 1Ch 21:22 |
| David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor 1 so I can build 2 on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price 3 – so that the plague may be removed 4 from the people.” |
| (0.40) | 1Ch 22:5 |
| David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, 1 and the temple to be built for the Lord must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. 2 Therefore I will make preparations for its construction.” So David made extensive preparations before he died. |
| (0.40) | 1Ch 22:8 |
| But the Lord said to me: 1 ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, 2 for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me. |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 2:3 |
| Solomon sent a message to King Huram 1 of Tyre: 2 “Help me 3 as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs 4 for the construction of his palace. 5 |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 2:4 |
| Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor 1 the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed, 2 and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the Lord our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis. 3 |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 2:12 |
| Huram also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord God of Israel, who made the sky and the earth! He has given David a wise son who has discernment and insight and will build a temple for the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 1 |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 3:1 |
| Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 1 on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan 2 the Jebusite. |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 6:5 |
| He told David, 1 ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. 2 Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel. |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 6:10 |
| The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the Lord God of Israel |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 6:18 |
| “God does not really live with humankind on the earth! 1 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built! |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 6:34 |
| “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 1 and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 2 |
| (0.40) | 2Ch 6:38 |
| When they return to you with all their heart and being 1 in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, 2 |
