Discovery Box| (0.24) | 2Ch 25:13 |
| Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle 1 raided 2 the cities of Judah from Samaria 3 to Beth Horon. They killed 4 3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 25:19 |
| You 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) | 2Ch 25:27 |
| From the time Amaziah turned from following the Lord, conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, 1 so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him 2 and they killed him there. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 26:3 |
| Uzziah 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) | 2Ch 26:15 |
| In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful. 1 |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 26:23 |
| Uzziah passed away 1 and was buried near his ancestors 2 in a cemetery 3 belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) 4 His son Jotham replaced him as king. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 27:7 |
| The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including all his military campaigns and his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. 1 |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 28:3 |
| He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, 1 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 2 whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 28:26 |
| The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, including his accomplishments from start to finish, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 1 |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 28:27 |
| Ahaz passed away 1 and was buried in the City of David; 2 they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 29:1 |
| Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother was Abijah, 2 the daughter of Zechariah. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 29:6 |
| For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of 1 the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned 2 away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. 3 |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 29:7 |
| They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 29:19 |
| We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the Lord.” |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 30:1 |
| Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 1 and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 30:16 |
| They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them. 1 |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 30:17 |
| Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered 1 the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the Lord. 2 |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 30:21 |
| The Israelites who were in Jerusalem observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. The Levites and priests were praising the Lord every day with all their might. 1 |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 30:22 |
| Hezekiah expressed his appreciation to all the Levites, 1 who demonstrated great skill in serving the Lord. 2 They feasted for the seven days of the festival, 3 and were making peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their ancestors. |
| (0.24) | 2Ch 31:2 |
| Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks 1 – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. 2 |
