Discovery Box| (0.24) | 2Ki 13:17 |
| Elisha 1 said, “Open the east window,” and he did so. 2 Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he did so. 3 Elisha 4 said, “This arrow symbolizes the victory the Lord will give you over Syria. 5 You will annihilate Syria in Aphek!” 6 |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 13:25 |
| Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from 1 Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 14:2 |
| He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother 2 was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 14:10 |
| You thoroughly defeated Edom 1 and it has gone to your head! 2 Gloat over your success, 3 but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” 4 |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 14:15 |
| The rest of the events of Jehoash’s 1 reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 2 |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 15:2 |
| He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 15:9 |
| He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate 2 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. |
| (0.24) | 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. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 15:18 |
| He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord; he did not repudiate 2 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. 3 During his reign, |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 15:30 |
| Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him 1 and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 16:3 |
| He followed in the footsteps of 1 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, 2 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 3 whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 16:10 |
| When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. 1 King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. 2 |
| (0.24) | 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 |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 16:14 |
| He moved the bronze altar that stood in the Lord’s presence from the front of the temple (between the altar and the Lord’s temple) and put it on the north side of the new 1 altar. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 17:16 |
| They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, 1 and worshiped 2 Baal. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 17:17 |
| They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, 1 and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. 2 |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 18:2 |
| He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother 2 was Abi, 3 the daughter of Zechariah. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 18:9 |
| In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched 1 up against Samaria 2 and besieged it. |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 18:30 |
| Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 19:7 |
| Look, I will take control of his mind; 1 he will receive 2 a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 3 with a sword in his own land.”’” |
