Discovery Box| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 9:14 |
| Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.p><t /><p class="bodytext">Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army,<n id="1" /> guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria. |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 9:21 |
| Jehoram ordered, “Hitch up my chariot.”<n id="1" /> When his chariot had been hitched up,<n id="2" /> King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots<n id="3" /> to meet Jehu. They met up with him<n id="4" /> in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.p> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 10:21 |
| Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 10:29 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">However, Jehu did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat had encouraged Israel to commit; the golden calves remained in Bethel<n id="1" /> and Dan.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 10:30 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab’s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.”<n id="1" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 13:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-third year of the reign of Judah’s King Joash son of Ahaziah, Jehu’s son Jehoahaz became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria<n id="1" /> for seventeen years. |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 13:12 |
| The rest of the events of Joash’s<n id="1" /> reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 13:25 |
| Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from<n id="1" /> Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.p> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 14:13 |
| King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in Beth Shemesh. He<n id="1" /> attacked<n id="2" /> Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 14:15 |
| The rest of the events of Jehoash’s<n id="1" /> reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 14:23 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">In the fifteenth year of the reign of Judah’s King Amaziah, son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Joash became king over Israel. He reigned for forty-one years in Samaria.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 14:28 |
| <p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 15:20 |
| Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria.<n id="1" /> Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.p> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 16:7 |
| Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent.<n id="1" /> March up and rescue me from the power<n id="2" /> of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked<n id="3" /> me.” |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 17:6 |
| In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel<n id="1" /> to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.p> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 17:7 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">This happened because the Israelites sinned against the <sc>Lordsc> their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of<n id="1" /> Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped<n id="2" /> other gods; |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 17:9 |
| The Israelites said things about the <sc>Lordsc> their God that were not right.<n id="1" /> They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 17:24 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The king of Assyria brought foreigners<n id="1" /> from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria<n id="2" /> in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities. |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 17:34 |
| <p class="bodytext">To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the <sc>Lordsc> gave<n id="2" /> the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel. |
| (0.44757863945578) | 2Ki 18:4 |
| He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole.<n id="1" /> He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time<n id="2" /> the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.<n id="3" /> |
