Discovery Box| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 15:28 |
| He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 15:35 |
| But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple.p> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 15:37 |
| In those days the <sc>Lordsc> prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 16:2 |
| Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He did not do what pleased the <sc>Lordsc> his God, in contrast to his ancestor David.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 16:3 |
| He followed in the footsteps of<n id="1" /> the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire,<n id="2" /> a horrible sin practiced by the nations<n id="3" /> whom the <sc>Lordsc> drove out from before the Israelites. |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 16:8 |
| Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were<n id="1" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute<n id="2" /> to the king of Assyria. |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 16:18 |
| He also removed the Sabbath awning<n id="1" /> that had been built<n id="2" /> in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 17:8 |
| they observed the practices<n id="1" /> of the nations whom the <sc>Lordsc> had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 17:17 |
| They passed their sons and daughters through the fire,<n id="1" /> and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc> and made him angry.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 17:18 |
| <p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> was furious<n id="1" /> with Israel and rejected them;<n id="2" /> only the tribe of Judah was left. |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 17:19 |
| Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> their God; they followed Israel’s example.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 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. |
| (0.44346395683453) | 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> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 17:32 |
| At the same time they worshiped<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 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> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 2Ki 17:35 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> made an agreement<n id="1" /> with them<n id="2" /> and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. |
| (0.44346395683453) | 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> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 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" /> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 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> |
| (0.44346395683453) | 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> |
