ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING

Passages on this topic · 300

• 1 Kings 14:15

  For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

• 1 Kings 14:16

  He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”

• 1 Kings 14:21

  Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

• 1 Kings 14:22

  Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

• 1 Kings 14:23

  For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

• 1 Kings 14:24

  There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

• 1 Kings 14:25

  In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

• 1 Kings 14:26

  and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

• 1 Kings 14:27

  King Rehoboam made shields of brass in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

• 1 Kings 14:28

  It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

• 1 Kings 14:29

  Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 1 Kings 14:30

  There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

• 1 Kings 14:31

  Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.

• 1 Kings 15:1

  Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.

• 1 Kings 15:2

  He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

• 1 Kings 15:3

  He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

• 1 Kings 15:4

  Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

• 1 Kings 15:5

  because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

• 1 Kings 15:6

  Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

• 1 Kings 15:7

  The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

• 1 Kings 15:8

  Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.

• 1 Kings 15:9

  In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.

• 1 Kings 15:10

  He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

• 1 Kings 15:11

  Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 15:12

  He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

• 1 Kings 15:13

  He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 1 Kings 15:14

  But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

• 1 Kings 15:15

  He brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.

• 1 Kings 15:16

  There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

• 1 Kings 15:17

  Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

• 1 Kings 15:18

  Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

• 1 Kings 15:19

  “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”

• 1 Kings 15:20

  Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

• 1 Kings 15:21

  When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

• 1 Kings 15:22

  Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

• 1 Kings 15:23

  Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

• 1 Kings 15:24

  Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

• 1 Kings 20:13

  Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today; and you will know that I am Yahweh.’”

• 1 Kings 20:14

  Ahab said, “By whom?” He said, “Yahweh says, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’” Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?” He answered, “You.”

• 1 Kings 20:15

  Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

• 1 Kings 20:16

  They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

• 1 Kings 20:17

  The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”

• 1 Kings 20:18

  He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

• 1 Kings 20:19

  So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

• 1 Kings 20:20

  They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

• 1 Kings 20:21

  The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

• 1 Kings 20:22

  The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”

• 1 Kings 20:23

  The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

• 1 Kings 20:24

  Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place.

• 1 Kings 20:25

  Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than them.” He listened to their voice, and did so.

• 1 Kings 20:26

  At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

• 1 Kings 20:27

  The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.

• 1 Kings 20:28

  A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys”; therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”

• 1 Kings 21:1

  After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

• 2 Kings 7:1

  Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

• 2 Kings 7:2

  Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

• 2 Kings 7:17

  The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

• 2 Kings 8:1

  Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

• 2 Kings 8:16

  In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

• 2 Kings 8:17

  He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 8:18

  He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• 2 Kings 8:19

  However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

• 2 Kings 8:20

  In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

• 2 Kings 8:21

  Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.

• 2 Kings 8:22

  So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

• 2 Kings 8:23

  The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 8:24

  Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 8:25

  In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

• 2 Kings 8:26

  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

• 2 Kings 8:27

  He walked in the way of Ahab’s house, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house; for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.

• 2 Kings 8:28

  He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.

• 2 Kings 8:29

  King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

• 2 Kings 9:27

  But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

• 2 Kings 9:28

  His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.

• 2 Kings 9:29

  In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.

• 2 Kings 11:1

  Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

• 2 Kings 11:3

  He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

• 2 Kings 11:4

  In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.

• 2 Kings 11:5

  He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

• 2 Kings 11:6

  a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

• 2 Kings 11:7

  The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:8

  You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”

• 2 Kings 11:9

  The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

• 2 Kings 11:10

  The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 11:11

  The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:12

  Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

• 2 Kings 11:13

  When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house:

• 2 Kings 11:14

  and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

• 2 Kings 11:15

  Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

• 2 Kings 11:16

  So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.

• 2 Kings 11:21

  Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

• 2 Kings 12:1

  Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

• 2 Kings 12:2

  Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

• 2 Kings 12:3

  However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

• 2 Kings 12:4

  Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Kings 12:5

  let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”

• 2 Kings 12:6

  But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.

• 2 Kings 12:7

  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

• 2 Kings 12:8

  The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

• 2 Kings 12:9

  But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

• 2 Kings 12:10

  When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 12:11

  They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Kings 12:12

  and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

• 2 Kings 12:13

  But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;

• 2 Kings 12:14

  for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.

• 2 Kings 12:15

  Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

• 2 Kings 12:16

  The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.

• 2 Kings 12:17

  Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 12:18

  Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 12:19

  Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 12:20

  His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

• 2 Kings 12:21

  For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 14:1

  In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.

• 2 Kings 14:2

  He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 14:3

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.

• 2 Kings 14:4

  However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

• 2 Kings 14:5

  As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,

• 2 Kings 14:6

  but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

• 2 Kings 14:7

  He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

• 2 Kings 14:8

  Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”

• 2 Kings 14:9

  Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

• 2 Kings 14:10

  You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

• 2 Kings 14:11

  But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

• 2 Kings 14:12

  Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.

• 2 Kings 14:13

  Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Kings 14:14

  He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

• 2 Kings 14:15

  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

• 2 Kings 14:16

  Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 14:17

  Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

• 2 Kings 14:18

  Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 14:19

  They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

• 2 Kings 14:20

  They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.

• 2 Kings 14:21

  All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

• 2 Kings 14:22

  He built Elath, and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.

• 2 Kings 15:1

  In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.

• 2 Kings 15:2

  He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 15:3

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

• 2 Kings 15:4

  However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

• 2 Kings 15:5

  Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

• 2 Kings 15:6

  Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 15:7

  Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 15:32

  In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.

• 2 Kings 15:33

  He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

• 2 Kings 15:34

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. He did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

• 2 Kings 15:35

  However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 15:36

  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 15:37

  In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

• 2 Kings 15:38

  Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 16:1

  In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

• 2 Kings 16:5

  Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

• 2 Kings 16:6

  At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, to this day.

• 2 Kings 16:7

  So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”

• 2 Kings 16:8

  Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 16:9

  The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

• 2 Kings 16:10

  King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.

• 2 Kings 16:11

  Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.

• 2 Kings 16:12

  When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.

• 2 Kings 16:13

  He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

• 2 Kings 16:14

  The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and Yahweh’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.

• 2 Kings 16:15

  King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering, his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”

• 2 Kings 16:16

  Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

• 2 Kings 16:17

  King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.

• 2 Kings 16:18

  He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry outside to Yahweh’s house, because of the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 16:19

  Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 16:20

  Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 18:1

  Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

• 2 Kings 18:2

  He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

• 2 Kings 18:3

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

• 2 Chronicles 21:17

  and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the posessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

• 2 Chronicles 22:6

  He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

• 2 Chronicles 22:8

  When Jehu was executing judgment on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, serving Ahaziah, and killed them.

• 2 Chronicles 22:9

  He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.

• 2 Chronicles 22:10

  Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.

• 2 Chronicles 22:12

  He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

• 2 Chronicles 23:1

  In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into a covenant with him.

• 2 Chronicles 23:2

  They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 23:3

  All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.

• 2 Chronicles 23:4

  This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds.

• 2 Chronicles 23:5

  A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 23:6

  But let no one come into Yahweh’s house, except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow Yahweh’s instructions.

• 2 Chronicles 23:7

  The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.”

• 2 Chronicles 23:8

  So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift.

• 2 Chronicles 23:9

  Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 23:10

  He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, near the altar and the house, around the king.

• 2 Chronicles 23:11

  Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”

• 2 Chronicles 23:12

  When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 23:13

  Then she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”

• 2 Chronicles 23:14

  Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t kill her in Yahweh’s house.”

• 2 Chronicles 23:15

  So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.

• 2 Chronicles 25:23

  Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 29:32

  The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

• Isaiah 7:8

  For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;

• Isaiah 8:4

  For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”

• Isaiah 8:5

  Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,

• Isaiah 8:6

  “Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

• Isaiah 8:7

  now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

• Isaiah 8:14

  He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 9:8

  The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.

• Isaiah 9:9

  All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

• Isaiah 9:10

  “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

• Isaiah 9:11

  Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,

• Isaiah 9:12

  The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

• Isaiah 9:13

  Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

• Isaiah 9:14

  Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

• Isaiah 9:15

  The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

• Isaiah 9:16

  For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

• Isaiah 9:17

  Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

• Isaiah 9:18

  For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

• Isaiah 9:19

  Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

• Isaiah 9:20

  One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

• Isaiah 9:21

  Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

• Isaiah 11:12

  He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

• Isaiah 17:3

  The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Isaiah 17:4

  “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

• Isaiah 17:5

  It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

• Isaiah 17:6

  Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• Isaiah 17:7

  In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 17:8

  They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.

• Isaiah 17:9

  In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

• Isaiah 17:10

  For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

• Isaiah 17:11

  In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

• Isaiah 28:1

  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

• Isaiah 28:2

  Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

• Isaiah 28:3

  The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

• Isaiah 28:4

  The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

• Isaiah 28:5

  In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;

• Isaiah 28:6

  and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

• Isaiah 28:7

  They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

• Isaiah 28:8

  For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

• Isaiah 49:7

  Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

• Jeremiah 3:18

  In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.

• Ezekiel 37:16

  You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

• Ezekiel 37:17

  and join them for you to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

• Ezekiel 37:18

  When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?

• Ezekiel 37:19

  tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

• Ezekiel 37:20

  The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.

• Ezekiel 37:21

  Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

• Ezekiel 37:22

  and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;

• Hosea 1:1

  Yahweh’s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

• Hosea 1:2

  When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”

• Hosea 1:3

  So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

• Hosea 1:4

  Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

• Hosea 1:5

  It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”

• Hosea 1:6

  She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

• Hosea 1:7

  But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

• Hosea 1:8

  Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

• Hosea 1:9

  He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

• Hosea 2:1

  “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’

• Hosea 2:2

  Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

• Hosea 2:3

  Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

• Hosea 2:4

  Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

• Hosea 2:5

  For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

• Hosea 2:6

  Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

• Hosea 2:7

  She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

• Hosea 2:8

  For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

• Hosea 2:9

  Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

• Hosea 2:10

  Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

• Hosea 2:11

  I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

• Hosea 2:12

  I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

• Hosea 2:13

  I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

• Hosea 2:14

  “Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

• Hosea 2:15

  I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

• Hosea 2:16

  It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’

• Hosea 2:17

  For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

• Hosea 2:18

  In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

• Hosea 2:19

  I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

• Hosea 2:20

  I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

• Hosea 2:21

  It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

• Hosea 2:22

  and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.

• Hosea 2:23

  I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”

• Hosea 11:5

  “They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

• Hosea 11:6

  The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.

• Hosea 11:9

  I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you; and I will not come in wrath.

• Hosea 11:10

  They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

• Hosea 11:11

  They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

• Hosea 12:7

  A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

• Hosea 12:8

  Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

• Hosea 12:9

  “But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

• Hosea 12:10

  I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

• Hosea 12:11

  If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

• Hosea 12:12

  Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

• Hosea 12:13

  By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

• Hosea 12:14

  Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.

• Hosea 13:13

  The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.

• Hosea 13:14

  I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

• Hosea 14:8

  Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

• Amos 2:6

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

• Amos 2:7

  They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

• Amos 2:8

  and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

• Amos 2:9

  Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

• Amos 2:10

  Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

• Amos 2:11

  I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.

• Amos 2:12

  “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

• Amos 2:13

  Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

• Amos 2:14

  Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

• Amos 2:15

  neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot won’t escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;

• Amos 2:16

  and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says Yahweh.