Barbara Kalb
Barbara Kalb's Highlights
Barbara Kalb
highlighted Nehemiah 6:9 NASB
For all of them were trying to frighten us, thinking, "They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done." But now, aO God, strengthen my hands.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted Nehemiah 5:15 NASB
But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so abecause of the fear of God.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted Nehemiah 5:9 NASB
Again I said, "The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of athe reproach of the nations, our enemies?
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted Nehemiah 2:8 NASB
and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's aforest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of bthe fortress which is by the temple, for the wall of the city and for the house to which I will go." And the king granted them to me because cthe good hand of my God was on me.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:23-28 NASB
She said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Tell the man who sent you to Me,thus says the Lord, "Behold, aI am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all bthe curses written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah."aBecause they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore My wrath will be poured out on this place and it shall not be quenched."'"But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus you will say to him, 'Thus says the Lord God of Israel regarding the words which you have heard,"aBecause your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you," declares the Lord."Behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, so your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants."'" And they brought back word to the king.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 32:30-31 NASB
It was Hezekiah who astopped the upper outlet of the waters of bGihon and directed them to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.Even in the matter of athe envoys of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of bthe wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone only cto test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 32:25 NASB
But Hezekiah gave no return for the benefit he received, abecause his heart was proud; btherefore wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 31:20-21 NASB
Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and ahe did what was good, right and true before the Lord his God.Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in law and in commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart and aprospered.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 30:9 NASB
"For aif you return to the Lord, your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. bFor the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him."
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 29:36 NASB
Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had prepared for the people, because the thing came about suddenly.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 28:22 NASB
Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz abecame yet more unfaithful to the Lord.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 28:19 NASB
For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of aIsrael, for he had brought about a lack of restraint in Judah and was very unfaithful to the Lord.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 28:9 NASB
But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and ahe went out to meet the army which came to Samaria and said to them, "Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, bwas angry with Judah, He has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage cwhich has even reached heaven.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 27:6 NASB
aSo Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 26:16-19 NASB
But awhen he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the Lord his God, for bhe entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.Then aAzariah the priest entered after him and with him eighty priests of the Lord, valiant men.aThey opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, "bIt is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, cbut for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the Lord God."But Uzziah, with a censer in his hand for burning incense, was enraged; and while he was enraged with the priests, athe leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the altar of incense.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 25:7-9 NASB
But aa man of God came to him saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim."But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, afor God has power to help and to bring down."Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the troops of Israel?" And the man of God answered, "aThe Lord has much more to give you than this."
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 25:2 NASB
He did right in the sight of the Lord, ayet not with a whole heart.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 24:19-22 NASB
Yet aHe sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord; though they testified against them, they would not listen.aThen the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, "Thus God has said, 'bWhy do you transgress the commandments of the Lord and do not prosper? cBecause you have forsaken the Lord, He has also forsaken you.'"So athey conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord.Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which his father Jehoiada had shown him, but he murdered his son. And as he died he said, "May athe Lord see and avenge!"
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 24:15 NASB
Now when Jehoiada reached a ripe old age he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old at his death.
Apr 19
Barbara Kalb
highlighted 2 Chronicles 21:12-15 NASB
Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet saying, "Thus says the Lord God of your father David, 'Because ayou have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father band the ways of Asa king of Judah,but ahave walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot bas the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you chave also killed your brothers, your own family, who were better than you,behold, the Lord is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity;and ayou will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.'"
Apr 19