Discovery Box| (0.29) | 2Ki 15:33 |
| He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 15:36 |
| The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 1 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 15:38 |
| Jotham passed away 1 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 16:1 |
| In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham’s son Ahaz became king over Judah. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 16:6 |
| (At that time King Rezin of Syria 1 recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. 2 Syrians 3 arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.) |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 16:18 |
| He also removed the Sabbath awning 1 that had been built 2 in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria. 3 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 16:19 |
| The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 1 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 16:20 |
| Ahaz passed away 1 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 17:2 |
| He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him. |
| (0.29) | 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 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 17:25 |
| When they first moved in, 1 they did not worship 2 the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 17:28 |
| So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 1 He taught them how to worship 2 the Lord. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 17:31 |
| the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 1 and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 2 the gods of Sepharvaim. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 17:32 |
| At the same time they worshiped 1 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 2 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 17:33 |
| They were worshiping 1 the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 18:1 |
| In the third year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king over Judah. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 18:7 |
| The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. 1 He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him. 2 |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 18:13 |
| In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 18:20 |
| Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. 1 In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me? |
| (0.29) | 2Ki 18:24 |
| Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen. 1 |
