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 25:24 |
| He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria. |
| (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. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 31:13 |
| Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath, and Benaiah worked under the supervision of Konaniah and his brother Shimei, as directed by King Hezekiah and Azariah, the supervisor of God’s temple. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 32:4 |
| A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. 1 They reasoned, 2 “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 32:11 |
| Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power 1 of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! 2 |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 33:18 |
| The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets 1 spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded 2 in the Annals of the Kings of Israel. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 34:28 |
| ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 1 You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 35:20 |
| After Josiah had done all this for the temple, 1 King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. 2 Josiah marched out to oppose him. |
| (0.35) | 2Ch 36:13 |
| He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance 1 in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return 2 to the Lord God of Israel. |
| (0.35) | Ezr 1:2 |
| “Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: “‘The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has instructed me to build a temple 1 for him in Jerusalem, 2 which is in Judah. |
| (0.35) | Ezr 2:1 |
| 1 These are the people 2 of the province who were going up, 3 from the captives of the exile whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile in Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem 4 and Judah, each to his own city. |
| (0.35) | Ezr 3:7 |
| So they provided money 1 for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon 2 and Tyre, 3 so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport 4 at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia. |
| (0.35) | Ezr 3:10 |
| When the builders established the Lord’s temple, the priests, ceremonially attired and with their clarions, 1 and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with their cymbals, stood to praise the Lord according to the instructions left by 2 King David of Israel. 3 |
| (0.35) | Ezr 4:19 |
| So I gave orders, 1 and it was determined 2 that this city from long ago has been engaging in insurrection against kings. It has continually engaged in 3 rebellion and revolt. |
| (0.35) | Ezr 5:11 |
| They responded to us in the following way: ‘We are servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the temple which was previously built many years ago. A great king 1 of Israel built it and completed it. |
| (0.35) | Ezr 5:12 |
| But after our ancestors 1 angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands 2 of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. 3 |
| (0.35) | Ezr 6:14 |
| The elders of the Jews continued building and prospering, while at the same time 1 Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo continued prophesying. They built and brought it to completion by the command of the God of Israel and by the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia. |
| (0.35) | Neh 2:19 |
| But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, 1 they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?” |
