Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the Lord’s temple.

There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted.

everyone who has determined to follow God, the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”

He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the Lord.

When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and pronounced blessings on his people Israel.

This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the Lord his God considered good and right and faithful.

Sennacherib’s servants further insulted the Lord God and his servant Hezekiah.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. Amon was guilty of great sin.

He did what the Lord approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.

Josiah observed a Passover festival for the Lord in Jerusalem. They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to do what the Lord commanded through Moses.”

Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace there.

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin learned that the former exiles were building a temple for the Lord God of Israel,

Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord – and Satan also arrived among them.

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the Lord and his anointed king.

Many say, “Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, Lord!