Discovery Box| (0.54) | 1Ki 21:4 |
| So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 1 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 2 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 3 and would not eat. |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 3:27 |
| So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, 1 so they broke off the attack 2 and returned to their homeland. |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 6:30 |
| When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes. 1 |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 7:17 |
| Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man 1 at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. 2 This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 3 |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 10:5 |
| So the palace supervisor, 1 the city commissioner, 2 the leaders, 3 and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects! 4 Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.” 5 |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 14:6 |
| But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, 1 “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, 2 and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. 3 A man must be put to death only for his own sin.” 4 |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 15:20 |
| Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria. 1 Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land. |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 18:21 |
| Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him. |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 18:27 |
| But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. 1 His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” 2 |
| (0.54) | 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 |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 21:13 |
| I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria 1 and the dynasty of Ahab. 2 I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides. 3 |
| (0.54) | 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. |
| (0.54) | 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. |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 25:4 |
| The enemy broke through the city walls, 1 and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. 2 They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. 3 (The Babylonians were all around the city.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. 4 |
| (0.54) | 2Ki 25:17 |
| Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet 1 high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet 2 high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it. |
| (0.54) | 1Ch 6:49 |
| But Aaron and his descendants offered sacrifices on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar for incense as they had been assigned to do in the most holy sanctuary. 1 They made atonement for Israel, just as God’s servant Moses had ordered. 2 |
| (0.54) | 1Ch 9:19 |
| Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his relatives from his family (the Korahites) were assigned to guard the entrance to the sanctuary. 1 Their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the Lord’s dwelling place. 2 |
| (0.54) | 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 |
| (0.54) | 1Ch 21:16 |
| David looked up and saw the Lord’s messenger standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. 1 |
| (0.54) | 1Ch 25:3 |
| From the sons of Jeduthun: 1 Gedaliah, Zeri, 2 Jeshaiah, 3 Hashabiah, and Mattithiah – six in all, 4 under supervision of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied as he played a harp, giving thanks and praise to the Lord. |
