Discovery Box| (0.15) | 2Sa 15:12 |
| While he was offering sacrifices, Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s adviser, 1 to come from his city, Giloh. 2 The conspiracy was gaining momentum, and the people were starting to side with Absalom. |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 18:14 |
| Joab replied, “I will not wait around like this for you!” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree. 1 |
| (0.15) | 2Sa 24:3 |
| Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?” |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 1:5 |
| Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, 1 was promoting himself, 2 boasting, 3 “I will be king!” He managed to acquire 4 chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. 5 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 2:15 |
| He said, “You know that the kingdom 1 was mine and all Israel considered me king. 2 But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. 3 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 3:11 |
| God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, 1 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 6:12 |
| “As for this temple you are building, if you follow 1 my rules, observe 2 my regulations, and obey all my commandments, 3 I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. 4 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 8:23 |
| He prayed: 1 “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty 2 to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 3 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 8:29 |
| Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. 1 May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 2 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 9:9 |
| Others will then answer, 1 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 2 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 3 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’” |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 11:21 |
| While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away 1 and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave 2 so I can return to my homeland.” |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 15:5 |
| He did this 1 because David had done what he approved 2 and had not disregarded any of his commandments 3 his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite. |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 16:31 |
| As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal. 1 |
| (0.15) | 1Ki 21:15 |
| When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she 1 said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.” |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 2:15 |
| When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, 1 who were standing at a distance, 2 saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah 3 rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him. |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 6:12 |
| One of his advisers said, “No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.” |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 8:14 |
| He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad 1 asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael 2 replied, “He told me you would surely recover.” |
| (0.15) | 2Ki 15:16 |
| At that time Menahem came from Tirzah and attacked Tiphsah. He struck down all who lived in the city and the surrounding territory, because they would not surrender. 1 He even ripped open the pregnant women. |
| (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 21:11 |
| “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. 1 He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. 2 |
