Discovery Box| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 6:10 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the <sc>Lordsc> promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 6:18 |
| <p class="bodytext">“God does not really live with humankind on the earth!<n id="1" /> Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built! |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 6:26 |
| <p class="bodytext">“The time will come when<n id="1" /> the skies<n id="2" /> are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people<n id="3" /> sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you,<n id="4" /> and turn away from their sin because you punish<n id="5" /> them, |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 7:8 |
| At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival for seven days. This great assembly included people from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 7:10 |
| On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon<n id="1" /> sent the people home. They left<n id="2" /> happy and contented<n id="3" /> because of the good the <sc>Lordsc> had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 7:11 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">After Solomon finished building the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and the royal palace, and accomplished all his plans for the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and his royal palace,<n id="1" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 7:14 |
| if my people, who belong to me,<n id="1" /> humble themselves, pray, seek to please me,<n id="2" /> and repudiate their sinful practices,<n id="3" /> then I will respond<n id="4" /> from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.<n id="5" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 8:14 |
| As his father David had decreed, Solomon<n id="1" /> appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks,<n id="2" /> and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates.<n id="3" /> This was what David the man of God had ordered.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 9:8 |
| May the <sc>Lordsc> your God be praised because he favored<n id="1" /> you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf!<n id="2" /> Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them,<n id="3" /> he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.”<n id="4" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 9:11 |
| With the timber the king made steps<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments<n id="2" /> for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that.<n id="3" />) |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 9:12 |
| King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him.<n id="1" /> Then she left and returned<n id="2" /> to her homeland with her attendants.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 10:6 |
| <p class="bodytext">King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served<n id="1" /> his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them,<n id="2" /> “How do you advise me to answer these people?” |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 10:9 |
| He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”<n id="1" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 10:10 |
| The young advisers with whom Rehoboam<n id="1" /> had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden’<n id="2" /> – say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father!<n id="3" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 10:15 |
| The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events<n id="1" /> so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made<n id="2" /> through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 10:18 |
| King Rehoboam sent Hadoram,<n id="1" /> the supervisor of the work crews, out after them, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 11:4 |
| ‘The <sc>Lordsc> says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’”<n id="1" /> They obeyed the <sc>Lordsc> and called off the attack against Jeroboam.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 11:21 |
| Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines.<n id="1" /> He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 13:3 |
| Abijah launched the attack with 400,000 well-trained warriors,<n id="1" /> while Jeroboam deployed against him 800,000 well-trained warriors.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | 2Ch 13:11 |
| They offer burnt sacrifices to the <sc>Lordsc> every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly<n id="1" /> we are observing the <sc>Lordsc> our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him. |
