Discovery Box| (1.00) | 2Ki 19:23 |
| Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 1 ‘With my many chariots 2 I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars, and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, 3 its thickest woods. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 19:25 |
| 1 Certainly you must have heard! 2 Long ago I worked it out, In ancient times I planned 3 it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins. 4 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 19:28 |
| Because you rage against me, and the uproar you create has reached my ears; 1 I will put my hook in your nose, 2 and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.” |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 19:32 |
| So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. 1 He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, 2 nor will he build siege works against it. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 19:33 |
| He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city,” says the Lord. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 19:37 |
| One day, 1 as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, 2 his sons 3 Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 4 They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 20:4 |
| Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him, 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 20:5 |
| “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow 1 you will go up to the Lord’s temple. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 20:16 |
| Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to the word of the Lord, |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 20:17 |
| ‘Look, a time is 1 coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 20:18 |
| ‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father 1 will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’” |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 20:19 |
| Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” 1 Then he added, 2 “At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.” 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 21:3 |
| He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 1 and worshiped 2 them. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 21:6 |
| He passed his son 1 through the fire 2 and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. 3 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 4 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 21:10 |
| So the Lord announced through 1 his servants the prophets: |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 21:11 |
| “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. 1 He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. 2 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 21:21 |
| He followed in the footsteps of his father 1 and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols 2 which his father had worshiped. 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 22:5 |
| Have them hand it over to the construction foremen 1 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, 2 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 22:6 |
| including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work. 1 |
