Discovery Box| (0.35) | 2Ch 24:23 |
| At the beginning 1 of the year the Syrian army attacked 2 Joash 3 and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 25:1 |
| Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 25:15 |
| The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following 1 these gods 2 that could not deliver their own people from your power?” 3 |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 25:17 |
| After King Amaziah of Judah consulted with his advisers, 1 he sent this message to the king of Israel, Joash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, “Come, face me on the battlefield.” 2 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 26:11 |
| Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official. |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 26:16 |
| But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. 1 He disobeyed 2 the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 26:20 |
| When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at 1 him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king 2 himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him. |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 27:2 |
| He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. 1 (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) 2 Yet the people were still sinning. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 28:13 |
| They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? 1 Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” 2 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 29:15 |
| They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word 1 of the Lord. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 29:18 |
| They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 29:24 |
| Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed 1 that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel. |
