Discovery Box| (0.29) | 2Ch 23:6 |
| No one must enter the Lord’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the Lord. |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 24:9 |
| An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the Lord the tax that Moses, God’s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness. 1 |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 25:7 |
| But a prophet 1 visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. 2 |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 25:12 |
| The men 1 of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. 2 All the captives 3 fell to their death. 4 |
| (0.29) | 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 |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 28:1 |
| Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 1 He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. 2 |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 28:5 |
| The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians 1 defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. 2 He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him. 3 |
| (0.29) | 2Ch 28:12 |
| So some of 1 the Ephraimite family leaders, Azariah son of Jehochanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jechizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai confronted 2 those returning from the battle. |
| (0.29) | 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 |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | 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. |
