Discovery Box| (0.28) | 2Ki 17:7 |
| This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of 1 Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped 2 other gods; |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 17:13 |
| The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 1 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 17:23 |
| Finally 1 the Lord rejected Israel 2 just as he had warned he would do 3 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 17:24 |
| The king of Assyria brought foreigners 1 from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria 2 in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 17:27 |
| So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you 1 deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” 2 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 19:4 |
| Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. 1 When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. 2 So pray for this remnant that remains.’” 3 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 19:6 |
| Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 1 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 20:6 |
| I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’” 1 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 21:8 |
| I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, 1 provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.” |
| (0.28) | 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 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 22:5 |
| Have them hand it over to the construction foremen 1 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, 2 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 22:8 |
| Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 22:16 |
| “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which the king of Judah has read. 1 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 22:19 |
| ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit 1 and humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people. 2 You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the Lord. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 22:20 |
| ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 1 You will not have to witness 2 all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:2 |
| The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud 1 all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple. |
| (0.28) | 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. |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:17 |
| He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 1 who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.” |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:19 |
| Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. 1 He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 2 |
| (0.28) | 2Ki 23:29 |
| During Josiah’s reign Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt marched toward 1 the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to fight him, but Necho 2 killed him at Megiddo 3 when he saw him. |
