Discovery Box| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 9:15 |
| But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians<n id="1" /> when he fought against King Hazael of Syria.<n id="2" /> Jehu told his supporters,<n id="3" /> “If you really want me to be king,<n id="4" /> then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel.” |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 9:17 |
| <p class="bodytext">Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching.<n id="1" /> He said, “I see troops!”<n id="2" /> Jehoram ordered,<n id="3" /> “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’”<n id="4" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 9:26 |
| ‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the <sc>Lordsc>, “and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,”<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.’ So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the <sc>Lordsc> said.”<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 9:27 |
| <p class="bodytext">When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what happened, he took off<n id="1" /> up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him and ordered, “Shoot him too.” They shot him while he was driving his chariot up the ascent of Gur near Ibleam.<n id="2" /> He fled to Megiddo<n id="3" /> and died there. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 9:36 |
| When they went back and told him, he said, “The <sc>Lordsc>’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned,<n id="1" /> ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 10:9 |
| In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, “You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men? |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 10:10 |
| Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the <sc>Lordsc> announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The <sc>Lordsc> had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”<n id="1" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 10:13 |
| Jehu encountered<n id="1" /> the relatives<n id="2" /> of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, “Who are you?” They replied, “We are Ahaziah’s relatives. We have come down to see how<n id="3" /> the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons are doing.” |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 10:29 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">However, Jehu did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat had encouraged Israel to commit; the golden calves remained in Bethel<n id="1" /> and Dan.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 10:31 |
| But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.<n id="1" /> He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 11:2 |
| So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked<n id="1" /> him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored.<n id="2" /> So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 11:9 |
| <p class="bodytext">The officers of the units of hundreds did just as<n id="1" /> Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported<n id="2" /> to Jehoiada the priest. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 11:14 |
| Then she saw<n id="1" /> the king standing by the pillar, according to custom. The officers stood beside the king with their trumpets and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 11:15 |
| Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army,<n id="1" /> “Bring her outside the temple to the guards.<n id="2" /> Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 11:18 |
| All the people of the land went and demolished<n id="1" /> the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols<n id="2" /> to bits.<n id="3" /> They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest<n id="4" /> then placed guards at the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 12:7 |
| So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.”<n id="1" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 12:9 |
| <p class="bodytext">Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 12:10 |
| When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary<n id="1" /> and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and bagged it up.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 12:11 |
| They would then hand over<n id="1" /> the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen<n id="2" /> assigned to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple, |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ki 12:12 |
| as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses.<n id="1" /> |
