Discovery Box| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 18:12 |
| Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed.<n id="1" /> Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 18:16 |
| Micaiah<n id="1" /> replied, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the <sc>Lordsc> said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’” |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 18:30 |
| Now the king of Syria had ordered his chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high ranking officers;<n id="1" /> fight only the king of Israel!” |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 19:10 |
| Whenever your countrymen who live in the cities bring a case before you<n id="1" /> (whether it involves a violent crime<n id="2" /> or other matters related to the law, commandments, rules, and regulations), warn them that they must not sin against the <sc>Lordsc>. If you fail to do so, God will be angry with you and your colleagues; but if you obey, you will be free of guilt.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 20:10 |
| Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming!<n id="1" /> When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands.<n id="2" /> They bypassed them and did not destroy them. |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 21:12 |
| <p class="bodytext">Jehoram<n id="1" /> received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of your ancestor David says: ‘You<n id="2" /> have not followed in the footsteps<n id="3" /> of your father Jehoshaphat and of<n id="4" /> King Asa of Judah, |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 22:6 |
| Joram<n id="1" /> returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians<n id="2" /> in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah<n id="3" /> son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded.<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 22:7 |
| <p class="bodytext">God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram.<n id="1" /> When Ahaziah<n id="2" /> arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the <sc>Lordsc> had commissioned<n id="3" /> to wipe out Ahab’s family.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 22:9 |
| He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria.<n id="1" /> They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned,<n id="2" /> “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the <sc>Lordsc> with his whole heart.” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 23:3 |
| and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada<n id="1" /> said to them, “The king’s son will rule, just as the <sc>Lordsc> promised David’s descendants. |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 23:8 |
| <p class="bodytext">The Levites and all the men of Judah<n id="1" /> did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath. Jehoiada the priest did not release his divisions from their duties. |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 23:18 |
| Jehoiada then assigned the duties of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple to the priests, the Levites whom David had assigned to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. They were responsible for offering burnt sacrifices to the <sc>Lordsc> with joy and music, according to<n id="1" /> the law of Moses and the edict of David. |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 25:4 |
| However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the <sc>Lordsc>’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses,<n id="1" /> “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do,<n id="2" /> and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do.<n id="3" /> A man must be executed only for his own sin.”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 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.” |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 25:13 |
| Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle<n id="1" /> raided<n id="2" /> the cities of Judah from Samaria<n id="3" /> to Beth Horon. They killed<n id="4" /> 3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder.p> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 25:15 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following<n id="1" /> these gods<n id="2" /> that could not deliver their own people from your power?”<n id="3" /> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 26:23 |
| Uzziah passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried near his ancestors<n id="2" /> in a cemetery<n id="3" /> belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.)<n id="4" /> His son Jotham replaced him as king.p> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 28:15 |
| Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked.<n id="1" /> So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin.<n id="2" /> They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys.<n id="3" /> They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho,<n id="4" /> the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.p> |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 29:16 |
| The priests then entered the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside.<n id="1" /> The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley. |
| (0.95350541871921) | 2Ch 30:8 |
| Now, don’t be stubborn<n id="1" /> like your fathers! Submit<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the <sc>Lordsc> your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.<n id="3" /> |
