Discovery Box| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 24:7 |
| (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.) |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 24:12 |
| The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen 1 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the Lord’s temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the Lord’s temple. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 24:13 |
| They worked hard and made the repairs. 1 They followed the measurements specified for God’s temple and restored it. 2 |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 24:18 |
| They abandoned the temple of the Lord God of their ancestors, 1 and worshiped 2 the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 26:10 |
| He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands 1 and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, 2 for he loved agriculture. 3 |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 27:3 |
| He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel. 1 |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 29:15 |
| They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word 1 of the Lord. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 29:28 |
| The entire assembly worshiped, as the singers sang and the trumpeters played. They continued until the burnt sacrifice was completed. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 29:29 |
| When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 29:30 |
| King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms 1 of David and Asaph the prophet. 2 So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 29:34 |
| But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, 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.) 2 |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 31:13 |
| Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath, and Benaiah worked under the supervision of Konaniah and his brother Shimei, as directed by King Hezekiah and Azariah, the supervisor of God’s temple. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 32:8 |
| He has with him mere human strength, 1 but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!” The army 2 was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 32:12 |
| Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 1 the Lord’s 2 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.” |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 32:17 |
| He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: 1 “The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah’s god rescue his people from my power.” 2 |
| (1.0029882978723) | 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 1 and worshiped 2 them. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 33:18 |
| The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets 1 spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded 2 in the Annals of the Kings of Israel. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 33:22 |
| He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped 2 them. |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 34:10 |
| They handed it over to the construction foremen 1 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it. 2 |
| (1.0029882978723) | 2Ch 34:12 |
| The men worked faithfully. Their supervisors were Jahath and Obadiah (Levites descended from Merari), as well as Zechariah and Meshullam (descendants of Kohath). The Levites, all of whom were skilled musicians, |
