Discovery Box| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 26:20 |
| When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at<n id="1" /> him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king<n id="2" /> himself wanted to leave quickly because the <sc>Lordsc> had afflicted him. |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 28:23 |
| He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him.<n id="1" /> He reasoned,<n id="2" /> “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble. |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 28:24 |
| Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem. |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 29:16 |
| The priests then entered the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside.<n id="1" /> The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley. |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 29:31 |
| Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so<n id="3" /> brought burnt sacrifices.p> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 29:34 |
| But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals,<n id="1" /> so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)<n id="2" /> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 30:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> and observe a Passover celebration for the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel. |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 30:5 |
| So they sent an edict<n id="1" /> throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people<n id="2" /> to come and observe a Passover for the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 30:6 |
| Messengers<n id="1" /> delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.p> <p class="bodytext">This royal edict read:<n id="2" /> “O Israelites, return to the <sc>Lordsc> God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return<n id="3" /> to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 30:22 |
| Hezekiah expressed his appreciation to all the Levites,<n id="1" /> who demonstrated great skill in serving the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> They feasted for the seven days of the festival,<n id="3" /> and were making peace offerings and giving thanks to the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.p> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 32:4 |
| A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district.<n id="1" /> They reasoned,<n id="2" /> “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 32:5 |
| Hezekiah<n id="1" /> energetically rebuilt<n id="2" /> every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall,<n id="3" /> and fortified the terrace of the City of David.<n id="4" /> He made many weapons and shields.p> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 32:14 |
| Who among all the gods of these nations whom my predecessors annihilated was able to rescue his people from my power?<n id="1" /> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 32:21 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> sent a messenger<n id="1" /> and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib<n id="2" /> returned home humiliated.<n id="3" /> When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons<n id="4" /> struck him down with the sword. |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 32:33 |
| Hezekiah passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried on the ascent of the tombs of the descendants of David. All the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem buried him with great honor.<n id="2" /> His son Manasseh replaced him as king.p> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 33:3 |
| He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> them. |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 33:7 |
| He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 33:14 |
| <p class="bodytext">After this Manasseh<n id="1" /> built up the outer wall of the City of David<n id="2" /> on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.p> |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 33:15 |
| <p class="bodytext">He removed the foreign gods and images from the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city. |
| (0.33259927672956) | 2Ch 33:19 |
| The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the <sc>Lordsc> responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.<n id="1" /> |
