2 Kings 13:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Jehoahaz sought the LORD, and the LORD listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

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  • 2 Kgs 14:26 : 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter, for there was no one left free, no help at all for Israel.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows;
  • Ps 78:34 : 34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and sought diligently after God.
  • Exod 3:9 : 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
  • Num 21:7 : 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
  • Judg 6:6-7 : 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD. 7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
  • Judg 10:10 : 10 And the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against You, both because we have forsaken our God and also served the Baals.
  • Judg 10:15-16 : 15 And the children of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned: do to us whatever seems good to You, but please deliver us this day. 16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 13:22 : 22 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him, and he was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
  • 2 Chr 33:19 : 19 Also his prayer, how God was entreated of him, all his sin and trespass, and the places where he built high places and set up groves and carved images, before he humbled himself, are written among the sayings of the seers.
  • Ps 106:43-44 : 43 Many times he delivered them, but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. 44 Nevertheless, he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry.
  • Gen 21:17 : 17 And God heard the voice of the lad, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
  • Gen 31:42 : 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 Saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
  • Isa 26:16 : 16 LORD, in trouble they have visited You, they poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 And call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

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  • 2 Kgs 13:22-25
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    22Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

    23The LORD was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and had regard for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he would not destroy them, nor cast them from his presence as yet.

    24So Hazael king of Syria died, and Benhadad his son reigned in his place.

    25Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took back from Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 13:5
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    5The LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.

  • 2 Kgs 13:1-3
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    1In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for seventeen years.

    2He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.

    3The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad, the son of Hazael, all their days.

  • 2 Kgs 14:26-27
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    26For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter, for there was no one left free, no help at all for Israel.

    27And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

  • 2 Chr 24:23-24
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    23And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army of Syria came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus.

    24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.

  • 2 Chr 15:4
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    4But when they in their trouble turned to the LORD God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.

  • 2 Kgs 13:8-9
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    8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

    9Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son reigned in his place.

  • Judg 4:3
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    3And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, for Sisera had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 18:4
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    4And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire for the word of the LORD today.

  • Isa 38:3-4
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    3And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beg You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

    4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

  • Jer 42:9
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    9And said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him;

  • Deut 26:7
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    7And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression:

  • 2 Kgs 8:13
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    13And Hazael said, "But what, is your servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" And Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you shall be king over Syria."

  • Isa 37:15
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    15And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 19:15
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    15And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

  • 2 Chr 33:12
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    12And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

  • 2 Chr 18:31
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    31And it happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they surrounded him to fight; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him, and God moved them to depart from him.

  • 2 Chr 30:20
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    20And the LORD listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

  • 1 Kgs 22:32
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    32And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

  • 2 Kgs 16:7
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    7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come up and save me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.

  • 2 Kgs 12:17-18
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    17Then Hazael king of Syria went up, fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

    18Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold found in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he departed from Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 20:31
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    31And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save your life.

  • 2 Chr 36:1
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    1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 10:32
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    32In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel: and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel;

  • Ps 106:44
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    44Nevertheless, he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry.

  • 2 Kgs 6:11
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    11Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?

  • Isa 37:21
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    21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

  • 2 Chr 17:4
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    4But sought the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the practices of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 16:9
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    9The king of Assyria heeded him, for he went up against Damascus, captured it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

  • 2 Chr 34:26-27
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    26And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which you have heard;

    27Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place and against the inhabitants of it, and humbled yourself before me, and tore your clothes, and wept before me; I have even heard you also, says the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 10:15
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    15And when the Syrians saw that they were defeated before Israel, they gathered themselves together.

  • Judg 10:16
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    16And they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 22:6
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    6And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds that were given to him at Ramah when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel because he was sick.

  • 2 Chr 28:23
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    23For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, who had struck him, and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 16:7
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    7And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

  • 2 Kgs 20:3
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    3I beg You, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

  • Deut 3:23
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    23And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying,

  • 2 Chr 32:20
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    20And for this reason, Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven.