But he did not invite me – your servant – or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah son of Jehoiada, or your servant Solomon.

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?”

Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze.

However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

I will humiliate David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.”

The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.

After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

She said, “Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t mislead me?’”

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.

They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.

But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the Lord their God.

The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate them.

You must never forget the agreement I made with you, and you must not worship other gods.

He was loyal to the Lord and did not abandon him. He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to Moses.