Discovery Box| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 18:31 |
| When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The <sc>Lordsc> helped him; God lured them away from him. |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 18:33 |
| Now an archer shot an arrow at random<n id="1" /> and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king<n id="2" /> ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line,<n id="3" /> for I am wounded.” |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 21:13 |
| but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the <sc>Lordsc>, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel.<n id="1" /> You also killed your brothers, members of your father’s family,<n id="2" /> who were better than you. |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 22:5 |
| He followed their advice and joined Ahab’s son King Joram<n id="1" /> of Israel in a battle against King Hazael of Syria<n id="2" /> at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram. |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 24:5 |
| He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.p> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 25:9 |
| Amaziah asked the prophet:<n id="1" /> “But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet<n id="2" /> replied, “The <sc>Lordsc> is capable of giving you more than that.” |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 25:23 |
| King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 28:5 |
| <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians<n id="1" /> defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus.<n id="2" /> He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 28:13 |
| They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the <sc>Lordsc>?<n id="1" /> Our guilt is already great and the <sc>Lordsc> is very angry at Israel.”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 28:23 |
| He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him.<n id="1" /> He reasoned,<n id="2" /> “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble. |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 30:21 |
| <p class="bodytext">The Israelites who were in Jerusalem observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. The Levites and priests were praising the <sc>Lordsc> every day with all their might.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 31:6 |
| The Israelites and people of Judah<n id="1" /> who lived in the cities of Judah also contributed a tenth of their cattle and sheep, as well as a tenth of the holy items consecrated to the <sc>Lordsc> their God. They brought them and placed them in many heaps.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 32:17 |
| He wrote letters mocking the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel and insulting him with these words:<n id="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.”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 33:7 |
| He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 33:8 |
| I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors,<n id="1" /> provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.” |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 34:9 |
| They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of<n id="1" /> Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of<n id="2" /> Judah and Benjamin and the residents of<n id="3" /> Jerusalem. |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 34:33 |
| Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged<n id="1" /> all who were in Israel to worship the <sc>Lordsc> their God. Throughout the rest of his reign<n id="2" /> they did not turn aside from following the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.p> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 35:18 |
| A Passover like this had not been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had observed a Passover like the one celebrated by Josiah, the priests, the Levites, all the people of Judah and Israel who were there, and the residents of Jerusalem. |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 35:25 |
| Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.p> |
| (0.94497260273973) | 2Ch 36:8 |
| <p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah.<n id="1" /> His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.p> |
