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

So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

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.

All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.”

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

When they came back, Elisha was staying in Jericho. He said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go’?”

But when they went to bury her, they found nothing left but the skull, feet, and palms of the hands.

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.

The rest of the events of Amaziah’s reign are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

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.

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

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

The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him.

He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.