Discovery Box| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 13:5 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> provided a deliverer<n id="1" /> for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power.<n id="2" /> The Israelites once more lived in security.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 13:6 |
| But they did not repudiate<n id="1" /> the sinful ways of the family<n id="2" /> of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins.<n id="3" /> There was even an Asherah pole<n id="4" /> standing in Samaria. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 13:8 |
| <p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Jehoahaz’s reign, including all his accomplishments and successes, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 13:10 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-seventh year of King Joash’s reign over Judah, Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria<n id="1" /> for sixteen years. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 13:11 |
| He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 13:13 |
| Joash passed away<n id="1" /> and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne.<n id="2" /> Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.p> |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 13:16 |
| Then Elisha<n id="1" /> told the king of Israel, “Aim the bow.”<n id="2" /> He did so,<n id="3" /> and Elisha placed his hands on the king’s hands. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 13:18 |
| Then Elisha<n id="1" /> said, “Take the arrows,” and he did so.<n id="2" /> He told the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 14:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Joash son of Joahaz,<n id="1" /> Joash’s<n id="2" /> son Amaziah became king over Judah. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 14:8 |
| Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel. He said, “Come, let’s meet face to face.”<n id="1" /> |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 14:11 |
| But Amaziah would not heed the warning,<n id="1" /> so King Jehoash of Israel attacked.<n id="2" /> He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face<n id="3" /> in Beth Shemesh of Judah. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 14:16 |
| Jehoash passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam replaced him as king.)p> |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 14:17 |
| <p class="bodytext">King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz of Israel. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 14:24 |
| He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 14:26 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> saw Israel’s intense suffering;<n id="1" /> everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 14:27 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory<n id="1" /> from under heaven,<n id="2" /> so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.p> |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 15:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-seventh year of King Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Amaziah’s son Azariah became king over Judah. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 15:8 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-eighth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Zechariah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria<n id="1" /> for six months. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 15:9 |
| He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. |
| (0.55947333333333) | 2Ki 15:12 |
| His assassination brought to fulfillment the <sc>Lordsc>’s word to Jehu,<n id="1" /> “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.”<n id="2" /> That is exactly what happened.<n id="3" />p> |
