Discovery Box| (0.27) | 2Ki 1:2 |
| Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria 1 and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, 2 “Go, ask 3 Baal Zebub, 4 the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.” |
| (0.27) | 2Ch 34:22 |
| So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king 1 went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, 2 the supervisor of the wardrobe. 3 (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh 4 district.) They stated their business, 5 |
| (0.27) | Eze 20:3 |
| “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, 1 declares the sovereign Lord.’ |
| (0.27) | Dan 1:20 |
| In every matter of wisdom and 1 insight the king asked them about, he found them to be ten times 2 better than any of the magicians and astrologers that were in his entire empire. |
| (0.27) | Joh 5:30 |
| I can do nothing on my own initiative. 1 Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, 2 because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. 3 |
| (0.24) | 1Ki 12:28 |
| After the king had consulted with his advisers, 1 he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, 2 “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” |
| (0.24) | 2Ki 1:3 |
| But the Lord’s angelic messenger told Elijah the Tishbite, “Get up, go to meet the messengers from the king of Samaria. Say this to them: ‘You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are on your way to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub the god of Ekron. 1 |
| (0.24) | 1Ch 12:19 |
| Some men from Manasseh joined 1 David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (But in the end they did not help the Philistines because, after taking counsel, the Philistine lords sent David away, saying: “It would be disastrous for us if he deserts to his master Saul.”) 2 |
| (0.24) | Eze 14:7 |
| For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally. |
| (0.24) | Eze 20:31 |
| When you present your sacrifices 1 – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, 2 O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! 3 |
| (0.22) | Lev 20:6 |
| “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits 2 to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face 3 against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people. |
| (0.22) | Deu 18:14 |
| Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things. |
| (0.22) | Jos 21:1 |
| The tribal leaders of the Levites went before Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the Israelite tribal leaders |
| (0.22) | 1Sa 6:2 |
| the Philistines called the priests and the omen readers, saying, “What should we do with the ark of the Lord? Advise us as to how we should send it back to its place.” |
| (0.22) | 1Sa 28:16 |
| Samuel said, “Why are you asking me, now that the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy? |
| (0.22) | 1Sa 30:7 |
| Then David said to the priest Abiathar son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. |
| (0.22) | 2Ki 3:12 |
| Jehoshaphat said, “The Lord speaks through him.” 1 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him. |
| (0.22) | 2Ki 8:8 |
| So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift 1 and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 2 ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” |
| (0.22) | 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 |
| (0.22) | 2Ki 19:8 |
| When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. 1 |
