Discovery Box| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 17:11 |
| They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the <sc>Lordsc> had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the <sc>Lordsc> angry.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 17:19 |
| Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> their God; they followed Israel’s example.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 17:20 |
| So the <sc>Lordsc> rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated<n id="1" /> them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence. |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 17:28 |
| So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel.<n id="1" /> He taught them how to worship<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 17:33 |
| They were worshiping<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 17:37 |
| You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods. |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 18:16 |
| At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and from the posts which he had plated<n id="1" /> and gave them to the king of Assyria.p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 18:18 |
| They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 18:35 |
| Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the <sc>Lordsc> rescue Jerusalem from my power?’”<n id="1" /> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 19:2 |
| He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests,<n id="1" /> clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz: |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 19:11 |
| Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands.<n id="1" /> Do you really think you will be rescued?<n id="2" /> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 19:16 |
| Pay attention, <sc>Lordsc>, and hear! Open your eyes, <sc>Lordsc>, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!<n id="1" /> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 19:21 |
| This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says about him:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">“The virgin daughter Zion<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">despises you, she makes fun of you;p> <p class="poetry">Daughter Jerusalemp> <p class="poetry">shakes her head after you.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 19:28 |
| <p class="poetry">Because you rage against me,p> <p class="poetry">and the uproar you create has reached my ears;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will put my hook in your nose,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and my bridle between your lips,p> <p class="poetry">and I will lead you back the wayp> <p class="poetry">you came.”p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 20:3 |
| “Please, <sc>Lordsc>. Remember how I have served you<n id="1" /> faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,<n id="2" /> and how I have carried out your will.”<n id="3" /> Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 20:11 |
| Isaiah the prophet called out to the <sc>Lordsc>, and the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 20:19 |
| Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The <sc>Lordsc>’s word which you have announced is appropriate.”<n id="1" /> Then he added,<n id="2" /> “At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.”<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 21:9 |
| But they did not obey,<n id="1" /> and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the <sc>Lordsc> had destroyed from before the Israelites.p> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 21:12 |
| So this is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel says, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.561216875) | 2Ki 21:25 |
| <p class="bodytext">The rest of Amon’s accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.<n id="1" /> |
