Discovery Box| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 7:17 |
| You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 7:18 |
| Then I will establish your dynasty,<n id="1" /> just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 10:14 |
| and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you;<n id="1" /> I will make them even heavier.<n id="2" /> My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”<n id="3" /> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 11:16 |
| Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 13:18 |
| That day<n id="1" /> the Israelites were defeated; the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.p> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 17:2 |
| He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons<n id="1" /> throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.p> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 17:3 |
| <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor<n id="1" /> David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign.<n id="2" /> He did not seek the Baals, |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 17:14 |
| These were their divisions by families:p> <p class="bodytext">There were a thousand officers from Judah.<n id="1" /> Adnah the commander led 300,000 skilled warriors, |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 19:4 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 19:8 |
| <p class="bodytext">In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites, priests, and Israelite family leaders to judge on behalf of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> and to settle disputes among the residents of Jerusalem.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 21:4 |
| <p class="bodytext">Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful.<n id="1" /> Then he killed all his brothers,<n id="2" /> as well as some of the officials of Israel. |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 22:4 |
| He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they<n id="2" /> gave him advice that led to his destruction. |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 23:2 |
| They traveled throughout Judah and assembled the Levites from all the cities of Judah, as well as the Israelite family leaders.p> <p class="bodytext">They came to Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 24:18 |
| They abandoned the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors,<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem. |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 24:22 |
| King Joash disregarded<n id="1" /> the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s<n id="2" /> son. As Zechariah<n id="3" /> was dying, he said, “May the <sc>Lordsc> take notice and seek vengeance!”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 26:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">All the people of Judah took Uzziah,<n id="1" /> who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place. |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 27:2 |
| He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.<n id="1" /> (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.)<n id="2" /> Yet the people were still sinning.p> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 28:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He did not do what pleased the <sc>Lordsc>, in contrast to his ancestor David.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 28:6 |
| In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.50397503125) | 2Ch 28:25 |
| In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the <sc>Lordsc> God of his ancestors.p> |
