Discovery Box| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 28:23 |
| He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him.<n id="1" /> He reasoned,<n id="2" /> “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 29:16 |
| The priests then entered the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside.<n id="1" /> The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 29:17 |
| On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple.<n id="1" /> For eight more days they consecrated the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 29:25 |
| <p class="bodytext">King Hezekiah<n id="1" /> stationed the Levites in the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet,<n id="2" /> and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The <sc>Lordsc> had actually given these orders through his prophets.) |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 29:34 |
| But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals,<n id="1" /> so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)<n id="2" /> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 30:8 |
| Now, don’t be stubborn<n id="1" /> like your fathers! Submit<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the <sc>Lordsc> your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 30:18 |
| The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law.<n id="1" /> For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the <sc>Lordsc>, who is good, forgive<n id="2" /> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 30:21 |
| <p class="bodytext">The Israelites who were in Jerusalem observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. The Levites and priests were praising the <sc>Lordsc> every day with all their might.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 30:22 |
| Hezekiah expressed his appreciation to all the Levites,<n id="1" /> who demonstrated great skill in serving the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> They feasted for the seven days of the festival,<n id="3" /> and were making peace offerings and giving thanks to the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.p> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 31:2 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks<n id="1" /> – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the <sc>Lordsc>’s sanctuary.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 33:6 |
| He passed his sons through the fire<n id="1" /> in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.<n id="2" /> He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc> and angered him.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 34:3 |
| <p class="bodytext">In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor<n id="1" /> David. In his twelfth year he began ridding<n id="2" /> Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 34:4 |
| He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down,<n id="1" /> and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 34:9 |
| They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of<n id="1" /> Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of<n id="2" /> Judah and Benjamin and the residents of<n id="3" /> Jerusalem. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 34:10 |
| They handed it over to the construction foremen<n id="1" /> assigned to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 34:24 |
| “This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 34:28 |
| ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace.<n id="1" /> You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.p> |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 34:30 |
| The king went up to the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 35:20 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">After Josiah had done all this for the temple,<n id="1" /> King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River.<n id="2" /> Josiah marched out to oppose him. |
| (0.91944869029276) | 2Ch 36:10 |
| At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought<n id="1" /> to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple. In his place he made his relative<n id="2" /> Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.p> |
