Verse 2

And they came to Zorobabel and to the principall fathers, and saide vnto them: We wyll builde with you, for we seeke the Lorde your God, as ye do, and we haue done sacrifice vnto him since the time of Asor Hadon the king of Assur which brought vs vp hither.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 19:37 : 37 And it fortuned, that as he was in a temple worshipping Nisroch his God, Adramelech & Saresar his owne sonnes smote hym with the sworde: And they escaped into the lande of Armenia, and Asarhaddon his sonne raigned in his steade.
  • 2 Kgs 17:24 : 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cutha, fro Aua, from Hamath, and from Sepharuaim, and put them in the cities of Samaria in steede of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities therof.
  • 2 Kgs 17:27-33 : 27 Then the king of Assyria commaunded, saying: Cary thyther one of the priestes whom ye brought thence, and let hym go and dwell there, and teache them the fashion how to serue the God of the countrey. 28 And then one of the priestes whom they had caried from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them howe they shoulde feare the Lorde. 29 Howebeit euery nation made them gods of their owne, and put them in the houses of the hygh places whiche the Samaritans had made, euery nation in their cities wherin they dwelt. 30 The men of Babylon made Socoth Benoth, & the men of Cuth made Nergal, & the men of Hamath made Asima, 31 The Auites made Nibbaz and Tharthak: And the Sepharuites burnt their children in fire for Adramelech and Anamelech, the gods of Sepharuaim. 32 And so they feared the Lorde, & made them priestes of the basist of them, which sacrifised for them in the houses of the hygh places. 33 And so they feared the Lord, and serued their owne gods, after the maner of the people whom they caryed thence.
  • 2 Kgs 17:41 : 41 And so these nations feared the Lord, and serued their images also, like as did their children and their childrens children: Euen as dyd their fathers, so do they vnto this day.
  • Gen 10:11 : 11 Out of that lande came Assur, and builded Niniue, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah,
  • Ezra 1:5 : 5 Then gat vp the principall fathers of Iuda and Beniamin, and the priestes and Leuites, and all they whose spirite God had raysed to go vp and to builde the house of the Lorde which is at Hierusalem.
  • Ezra 2:2 : 2 They that came with Zorobabel are these: Iesua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Rehelaia, Mardochai, Bilsan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baana. This is the number of the men of the people of Israel:
  • Ezra 3:2 : 2 And there stoode vp Iesua the sonne of Ioseder, and his brethren the priestes, and Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and his brethren, and builded the aulter of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offeringes thereon, as it is written in the law of Moyses the man of God.
  • Ezra 3:12 : 12 Many also of the priestes & Leuites and chiefe fathers, and auncient men which had seene the first house, when the foundation was layde before their eyes, wept with a loude voyce, and many showted aloude with ioy:
  • Ps 73:8 : 8 They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously.
  • Prov 26:23-26 : 23 Burning lippes and a wicked heart, are like a potsharde couered with siluer drosse. 24 An enemie wyll dissemble with his lippes, and layeth vp deceipt in his heart. 25 But when he speaketh fayre, beleue hym not: for there are seuen abhominations in his heart. 26 Hatred maye be couered by deceipt: but the malice therof shalbe shewed before the whole congregation.
  • Isa 37:37 : 37 So Sennacherib the kyng of the Assyrians brake vp & dwelt at Niniue.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Asshur shalbe no more our helper, neither will we ride vpon horses any more, neither wyll we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such false Apostles are disceiptfull workers, transfourmed into ye Apostles of Christe. 14 And no maruayle, for Satan himselfe is transfourmed into an angel of lyght. 15 Therfore it is no great thyng though his ministers be transfourmed as the ministers of righteousnesse, whose ende shalbe accordyng to their workes.
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of incommers, being false brethren, which came in priuily, to spye out our libertie which we haue in Christe Iesu, that they myght bryng vs into bondage.
  • 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 For as Iannes and Iambres withstoode Moyses, so do these also resist the trueth: Men of corrupt myndes, reprobate concernyng the fayth:
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 There were false prophetes also among the people, eue as there shalbe false teachers among you, whiche pryuyly shal bryng in damnable heresies, euen denying the Lorde that hath bought them, and bryng vpo them selues swyft damnation. 2 And many shall folowe their damnable wayes, by whom the way of trueth shalbe euyll spoken of: