He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

When God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.

He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Don’t you realize that the Lord God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement?

Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.

But Amaziah did not heed the warning, for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom.

The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it back to Samaria.

In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.

Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’”

Before two years are over, I will bring back to this place everything that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took from it and carried away to Babylon.

Then the prophet Jeremiah responded to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the Lord’s temple.

The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has fully carried out his intended purposes. In days to come you will come to understand this.

However, listen to what I, the Lord, promise you, King Zedekiah of Judah. I, the Lord, promise that you will not die in battle or be executed.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, glittering awesomely like ice, stretched out over their heads.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem