Discovery Box| (0.25) | 2Ch 23:20 |
| He summoned 1 the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of land, and he then led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 24:6 |
| So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, 1 and said to him, “Why have you not made 2 the Levites collect 3 from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?” 4 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 25:4 |
| However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, 1 “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, 2 and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. 3 A man must be executed only for his own sin.” 4 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 25:16 |
| While he was speaking, Amaziah 1 said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” 2 So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided 3 to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.” |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 26:19 |
| Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving 1 at the priests, a skin disease 2 appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 26:21 |
| King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 1 afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 29:21 |
| They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. 1 The king 2 told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Lord. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 30:5 |
| So they sent an edict 1 throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people 2 to come and observe a Passover for the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law. 3 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 30:6 |
| Messengers 1 delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read: 2 “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return 3 to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 4 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 30:18 |
| The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. 1 For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive 2 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 31:6 |
| The Israelites and people of Judah 1 who lived in the cities of Judah also contributed a tenth of their cattle and sheep, as well as a tenth of the holy items consecrated to the Lord their God. They brought them and placed them in many heaps. 2 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 31:16 |
| They made disbursements to all the males three years old and up who were listed in the genealogical records – to all who would enter the Lord’s temple to serve on a daily basis and fulfill their duties as assigned to their divisions. 1 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 32:17 |
| He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: 1 “The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah’s god rescue his people from my power.” 2 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 32:21 |
| The Lord sent a messenger 1 and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib 2 returned home humiliated. 3 When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons 4 struck him down with the sword. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 33:6 |
| He passed his sons through the fire 1 in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. 2 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. 3 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 33:18 |
| The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets 1 spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded 2 in the Annals of the Kings of Israel. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 33:19 |
| The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself. 1 |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 34:8 |
| In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple. 1 He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the Lord his God. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 34:27 |
| ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit 1 and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words concerning this place and its residents. You humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the Lord. |
| (0.25) | 2Ch 36:18 |
| He carried away to Babylon all the items in God’s temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials. |
