Discovery Box| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 2Ki 17:19 |
| Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> their God; they followed Israel’s example.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 2Ki 18:5 |
| He trusted in the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 2Ki 21:6 |
| He passed his son<n id="1" /> through the fire<n id="2" /> and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it.<n id="3" /> He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc>, provoking him to anger.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 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" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 2Ki 22:2 |
| He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved<n id="1" /> and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;<n id="2" /> he did not deviate to the right or the left.p> |
