who satisfies your life with good things, so your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.

When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

Samuel said to the people, “Come on! Let’s go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.”

Joash was determined to repair the Lord’s temple.

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!

They will rebuild the perpetual ruins and restore the places that were desolate; they will reestablish the ruined cities, the places that have been desolate since ancient times.

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple.

The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the Lord’s temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the Lord’s temple.