Discovery Box| (0.50) | 1Ki 14:8 |
| I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. 1 |
| (0.50) | 1Ki 15:5 |
| He did this 1 because David had done what he approved 2 and had not disregarded any of his commandments 3 his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite. |
| (0.50) | 1Ki 16:7 |
| The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. 1 His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s. 2 |
| (0.50) | 1Ki 22:43 |
| He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. 1 (22:44) 2 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. |
| (0.50) | 2Ki 10:30 |
| The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab’s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” 1 |
| (0.50) | 2Ki 21:16 |
| Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, 1 in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 2 |
| (0.50) | 1Ch 2:3 |
| The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, 1 a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him. 2 |
| (0.50) | 2Ch 33:6 |
| He passed his sons through the fire 1 in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. 2 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. 3 |
| (0.50) | Est 5:8 |
| If I have found favor in the king’s sight and if the king is inclined 1 to grant my request and perform my petition, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them. At that time 2 I will do as the king wishes. 3 |
| (0.50) | Isa 49:5 |
| So now the Lord says, the one who formed me from birth 1 to be his servant – he did this 2 to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored 3 in the Lord’s sight, for my God is my source of strength 4 – |
| (0.50) | Isa 65:12 |
| I predestine you to die by the sword, 1 all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, 2 because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; 3 you chose to do what displeases me.” |
| (0.50) | Isa 66:4 |
| So I will choose severe punishment 1 for them; I will bring on them what they dread, because I called, and no one responded, I spoke and they did not listen. They did evil before me; 2 they chose to do what displeases me.” |
| (0.50) | Jer 27:5 |
| “I made the earth and the people and animals on it by my mighty power and great strength, 1 and I give it to whomever I see fit. 2 |
| (0.50) | Jer 32:30 |
| This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me 1 from their earliest history until now 2 and because they 3 have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done. 4 I, the Lord, affirm it! 5 |
| (0.50) | Jer 34:15 |
| Recently, however, you yourselves 1 showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own. 2 |
| (0.50) | Mal 2:17 |
| You have wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” Because you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the Lord’s opinion, 1 and he delights in them,” or “Where is the God of justice?” |
| (0.44) | Jdg 10:6 |
| The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. 1 They worshiped 2 the Baals and the Ashtars, 3 as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, 4 Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. 5 They abandoned the Lord and did not worship 6 him. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 29:6 |
| So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you 1 serving 2 with me in the army. 3 I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion 4 of the leaders, you are not reliable. 5 |
| (0.44) | 1Ki 11:38 |
| You must obey 1 all I command you to do, follow my instructions, 2 do what I approve, 3 and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; 4 I will give you Israel. |
| (0.44) | Est 2:15 |
| When it became the turn of Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai (who had raised her as if she were his own daughter 1 ) to go to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who was overseer of the women, had recommended. Yet Esther met with the approval of all who saw her. |
