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• 2 Chronicles 19Bible

  2 Chronicles 19 recounts how Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, who had allied himself with Ahab, is rebuked by the seer Jehu, then brings the people back to the LORD and reorganizes the judicial system by appointing judges in the provincial cities and in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 15Bible

  2 Chronicles 15 tells how Asa, king of Judah, heeds the exhortation of the prophet Azariah son of Oded, removes the idols, and makes a covenant with the people in Jerusalem to seek the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 16Bible

  2 Chronicles 16 covers the final years of Asa, king of Judah. Under pressure from Baasha, king of Israel, Asa made an alliance with Ben-hadad, king of Aram, and imprisoned Hanani the seer, who rebuked him for it. The chapter closes with Asa's illness, death, and burial.

• 2 Chronicles 30Bible

  2 Chronicles 30 records how Hezekiah, king of Judah, summoned all Israel, both north and south, to Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month, followed by a great festival lasting two weeks.

• Jeremiah 25Bible

  Jeremiah 25 records a word given in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It foretells that Judah will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years, after which Babylon itself will be punished, and it proclaims God's judgment on the world in a scene in which Jeremiah makes Jerusalem and the nations drink the cup of wrath.

• 2 Chronicles 28Bible

  Second Chronicles 28 recounts the reign of Ahaz, king of Judah. It records that his idolatry led to defeat by Aram and Israel, that the captives were released at the word of the prophet Oded, and that Ahaz's reliance on Assyria brought him no benefit.

• 2 Chronicles 33Bible

  2 Chronicles 33 records the fifty-five-year reign of Manasseh, king of Judah, and the two-year reign of his son Amon. Its central narrative tells how Manasseh, after extreme idolatry, was taken captive by Assyria, humbled himself in prayer, and was restored to his throne.

• Book of JudithBible

  The Book of Judith is a sixteen-chapter book that tells how the widow Judith saved Israel by killing the enemy general Holofernes. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Old Testament, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha, outside the canon.

• RabbahBible

  Rabbah was the capital of the Ammonites, east of the Jordan River. During David's reign, Uriah was killed while Joab was besieging the city. It is generally identified with the site of Amman, the present-day capital of Jordan.

• 2 Chronicles 27Bible

  2 Chronicles 27 is a brief account of the sixteen-year reign of Jotham, king of Judah. It records that he did what was right, as his father Uzziah had done, built cities and fortifications, and defeated the Ammonites, who then paid him tribute. It closes with his death and the accession of his son Ahaz.

• MicaiahPeople

  Micaiah, the son of Imlah, was a prophet in the time of Ahab, king of Israel. When four hundred prophets predicted victory, he alone prophesied Ahab's defeat (1 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 18).

• ImlahPeople

  Imlah was the father of Micaiah, a prophet in the time of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. He appears in Scripture only four times, always in the phrase "Micaiah the son of Imlah."

• Mount ZemaraimBible

  Mount Zemaraim is the mountain on which Abijah, king of Judah, stood and addressed the army of Israel before his battle with Jeroboam, king of the northern kingdom of Israel (2 Chronicles 13:4). It appears to have been located in the hill country of Ephraim, near Bethel.

• Syro-Ephraimite WarBible

  A war in the late eighth century BC in which Rezin, king of Aram (Syria), and Pekah, king of the northern kingdom of Israel (Ephraim), joined forces to attack Ahaz, king of Judah. The Immanuel prophecy of Isaiah 7 was given during this crisis.

• JehoiachinPeople

  Jehoiachin was a king of Judah who reigned for about three months before surrendering to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and being carried off to Babylon. Scripture also calls him Jeconiah and Coniah.

• Ezekiel 24Bible

  Ezekiel 24 records the word that came to Ezekiel on the day the king of Babylon began the siege of Jerusalem. Through the parable of the rusted pot and the sign of the prophet's refusal to mourn openly at his wife's death, it announces the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.

• Paleo-Hebrew ScriptBible

  The Paleo-Hebrew script is the consonantal alphabet that the people of Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew before the Babylonian exile. It predates the square script now used in the Hebrew Bible and is also called the Old Hebrew script.

• 2 Samuel 2Bible

  In 2 Samuel 2, after Saul's death, David is anointed king of Judah at Hebron, and his forces first clash at Gibeon with those of Ish-bosheth, whom Abner had made king over Israel.

• Zechariah 10Bible

  Zechariah 10 is a prophecy declaring that the LORD, not idols, gives rain. It announces judgment on false shepherds and promises that God will strengthen the house of Judah and the house of Joseph and gather His scattered people once more.

• Isaiah 8:8–10Bible Verses

  A passage in which Isaiah likens the Assyrian invasion to a flood and foretells the crisis coming upon Judah. He then declares that the plans of the nations seeking to attack Judah will fail, because "God is with us" (Immanuel).