Discovery Box| (1.00) | 2Ch 20:33 |
| However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors. 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 20:34 |
| The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Annals of Jehu son of Hanani which are included in Scroll of the Kings of Israel. 1 |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 20:37 |
| Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, “Because 1 you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea. 2 |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 21:13 |
| but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel. 1 You also killed your brothers, members of your father’s family, 2 who were better than you. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 22:8 |
| While Jehu was dishing out punishment to Ahab’s family, he discovered the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s relatives who were serving Ahaziah and killed them. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 23:1 |
| In the seventh year Jehoiada made a bold move. He made a pact 1 with the officers of the units of hundreds: Azariah son of Jehoram, Ishmael son of Jehochanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri. |
| (1.00) | 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. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 23:18 |
| Jehoiada then assigned the duties of the Lord’s temple to the priests, the Levites whom David had assigned to the Lord’s temple. They were responsible for offering burnt sacrifices to the Lord with joy and music, according to 1 the law of Moses and the edict of David. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:7 |
| (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.) |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:12 |
| The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen 1 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the Lord’s temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the Lord’s temple. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:13 |
| They worked hard and made the repairs. 1 They followed the measurements specified for God’s temple and restored it. 2 |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:14 |
| When they were finished, they brought the rest of the silver to the king and Jehoiada. They used it to make items for the Lord’s temple, including items used in the temple service and for burnt sacrifices, pans, and various other gold and silver items. Throughout Jehoiada’s lifetime, burnt sacrifices were offered regularly in the Lord’s temple. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:18 |
| They abandoned the temple of the Lord God of their ancestors, 1 and worshiped 2 the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:20 |
| God’s Spirit energized 1 Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’” |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:21 |
| They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:22 |
| King Joash disregarded 1 the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s 2 son. As Zechariah 3 was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” 4 |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 24:27 |
| The list of Joash’s 1 sons, the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God’s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings. 2 His son Amaziah replaced him as king. |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 25:4 |
| However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, 1 “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, 2 and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. 3 A man must be executed only for his own sin.” 4 |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 25:9 |
| Amaziah asked the prophet: 1 “But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet 2 replied, “The Lord is capable of giving you more than that.” |
| (1.00) | 2Ch 25:14 |
| When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people 1 of Seir and made them his personal gods. 2 He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices. |
