These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

Thus you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God.

Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere him.

and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?

You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.

The Lord will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?”

May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing.”

He was loyal to the Lord and did not abandon him. He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to Moses.

I will establish his kingdom permanently, if he remains committed to obeying my commands and regulations, as you are doing this day.’

They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries.

He ordered Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.

but instead sought the God of his ancestors and obeyed his commands, unlike the Israelites.

They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.

They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the Lord.

Preparations were made, and the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions as prescribed by the king.

“And now what are we able to say after this, our God? For we have forsaken your commandments

“But they – our ancestors – behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.