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2CH-28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of

God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut

up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in

every corner of Jerusalem. <ahaz> <altars> <corner> <cut>

2CH-28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places

to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD

God of his fathers. <anger> <burn> <city> <every> <fathers>

2CH-28:26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first

and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of

Judah and Israel. <all> <behold> <book> <first> <israel> <judah>

2CH-28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in the city, [even] in Jerusalem:but they brought him not into

the sepulchres of the kings of Israel:and Hezekiah his son

reigned in his stead. <ahaz> <brought> <buried> <city> <fathers>

2CH-29:1 Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty

years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem.

And his mother's name [was] Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

2CH-29:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that David his father had done. <all>

<which>

2CH-29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,

opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

2CH-29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and

gathered them together into the east street, <brought> <east>

2CH-29:5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now

yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your

fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place].

2CH-29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which

was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him,

and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the

LORD, and turned [their] backs. <away> <backs> <done> <evil>

2CH-29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put

out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt

offerings in the holy [place] unto the God of Israel. <also>

2CH-29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and

Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to

astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

2CH-29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our

sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.

2CH-29:10 Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the

LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

2CH-29:11 My sons, be not now negligent:for the LORD hath chosen

you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should

minister unto him, and burn incense. <before> <burn> <chosen>

2CH-29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and

Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites:and of

the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of

Jehalelel:and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and

Eden the son of Joah:<amasai> <arose> <azariah> <eden>

2CH-29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel:and of

the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:<asaph> <elizaphan>

2CH-29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei:and of

the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel. <heman> <jeduthun>

2CH-29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified

themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king,

by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

2CH-29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house

of the LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all the

uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the

court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to

carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron. <all> <brook>

2CH-29:17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month

to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the

porch of the LORD:so they sanctified the house of the LORD in

eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they

made an end. <began> <came> <day> <days> <eight> <eighth> <end>

2CH-29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We

have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt

offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table,

with all the vessels thereof. <all> <altar> <burnt> <cleansed>

2CH-29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign

did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and

sanctified, and, behold, they [are] before the altar of the LORD.

2CH-29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the

rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. <city>

2CH-29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and

seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the

kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded

the priests the sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the altar of

the LORD. <altar> <brought> <bullocks> <commanded> <goats>

2CH-29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received

the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar:likewise, when they

had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar:

they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon

the altar. <also> <altar> <blood> <bullocks> <had> <killed>

2CH-29:23 And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin

offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid

their hands upon them:<before> <brought> <congregation> <forth>

2CH-29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made

reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an

atonement for all Israel:for the king commanded [that] the burnt

offering and the sin offering [should be made] for all Israel.

2CH-29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with

cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the

commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the

prophet:for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

<with>

2CH-29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,

and the priests with the trumpets. <david> <instruments>

2CH-29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering

upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of

the LORD began [also] with the trumpets, and with the

instruments [ordained] by David king of Israel. <altar> <began>

2CH-29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers

sang, and the trumpeters sounded:[and] all [this continued]

until the burnt offering was finished. <all> <burnt>

2CH-29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king

and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and

worshipped. <all> <bowed> <end> <had> <him> <king> <made>

2CH-29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded

the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David,

and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and

they bowed their heads and worshipped. <asaph> <bowed>

2CH-29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have

consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring

sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And

the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and

as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings. <answered>

2CH-29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the

congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an

hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs:all these [were] for a

burnt offering to the LORD. <all> <brought> <bullocks> <burnt>

2CH-29:33 And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen and

three thousand sheep. <consecrated> <hundred> <oxen> <sheep>

2CH-29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not

flay all the burnt offerings:wherefore their brethren the

Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the

[other] priests had sanctified themselves:for the Levites [were]

more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

2CH-29:35 And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance, with

the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for

[every] burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD

was set in order. <also> <burnt> <drink> <fat> <house> <lord>

<with>

2CH-29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God

had prepared the people:for the thing was [done] suddenly. <all>

<thing>

2CH-30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote

letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to

the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto

the LORD God of Israel. <all> <also> <come> <ephraim> <god>

2CH-30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and

all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the

second month. <all> <congregation> <counsel> <had> <jerusalem>

2CH-30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the

priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had

the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. <because>

2CH-30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

2CH-30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation

throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they

should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at

Jerusalem:for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such

sort] as it was written. <all> <beersheba> <come> <dan> <decree>

2CH-30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and

his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to

the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn

again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he

will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the

hand of the kings of Assyria. <again> <all> <are> <assyria>

2CH-30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren,

which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who]

therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. <against>

2CH-30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but]

yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary,

which he hath sanctified for ever:and serve the LORD your God,

that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. <away>

2CH-30:9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and

your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them

captive, so that they shall come again into this land:for the

LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away

[his] face from you, if ye return unto him. <again> <away>

2CH-30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the

country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun:but they

laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. <city> <country>

2CH-30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of

Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. <asher>

2CH-30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one

heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by

the word of the LORD. <also> <commandment> <do> <give> <god>

2CH-30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep

the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great

congregation. <assembled> <bread> <congregation> <feast> <great>

2CH-30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in

Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and

cast [them] into the brook Kidron. <all> <altars> <arose> <away>

2CH-30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day]

of the second month:and the priests and the Levites were ashamed,

and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings

into the house of the LORD. <ashamed> <brought> <burnt>

2CH-30:16 And they stood in their place after their manner,

according to the law of Moses the man of God:the priests

sprinkled the blood, [which they received] of the hand of the

Levites. <after> <blood> <god> <hand> <law> <levites> <man>

2CH-30:17 For [there were] many in the congregation that were

not sanctified:therefore the Levites had the charge of the

killing of the passovers for every one [that was] not clean, to

sanctify [them] unto the LORD. <charge> <clean> <congregation>

2CH-30:18 For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim,

and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,

yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written.

But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every

one <cleansed> <did> <eat> <ephraim> <every> <good> <had>

2CH-30:19 [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God

of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the

purification of the sanctuary. <fathers> <god> <heart> <lord>

2CH-30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the

people. <healed> <hearkened> <hezekiah> <lord> <people>

2CH-30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at

Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with

great gladness:and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD

day by day, [singing] with loud instruments unto the LORD.

2CH-30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites

that taught the good knowledge of the LORD:and they did eat

throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and

making confession to the LORD God of their fathers. <all>

2CH-30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other

seven days:and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

2CH-30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the

congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and

the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten

thousand sheep:and a great number of priests sanctified

themselves. <bullocks> <congregation> <did> <gave> <give>

2CH-30:25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests

and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of

Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel,

and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. <all> <came> <congregation>

2CH-30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem:for since the time

of Solomon the son of David king of Israel [there was] not the

like in Jerusalem. <david> <great> <israel> <jerusalem> <joy>

2CH-30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the

people:and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to

his holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven. <arose> <blessed>

2CH-31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were

present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in

pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places

and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also

and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then

all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession,

into their own cities. <all> <also> <altars> <benjamin> <brake>

2CH-31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and

the Levites after their courses, every man according to his

service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for

peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise

in the gates of the tents of the LORD. <after> <appointed>

2CH-31:3 [He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance

for the burnt offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening

burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and

for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as [it is] written in

the law of the LORD. <also> <appointed> <burnt> <evening>

2CH-31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in

Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites,

that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

2CH-31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the

children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn,

wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field;

and the tithe of all [things] brought they in abundantly. <all>

<wine>

2CH-31:6 And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah, that

dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of

oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were

consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid [them] by heaps.

2CH-31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of

the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month. <began>

2CH-31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the

heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel. <blessed>

2CH-31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the

Levites concerning the heaps. <concerning> <heaps> <hezekiah>

2CH-31:10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok

answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the

offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat,

and have left plenty:for the LORD hath blessed his people; and

that which is left [is] this great store. <answered> <azariah>

<zadok>

2CH-31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the

house of the LORD; and they prepared [them], <chambers>

2CH-31:12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the

dedicated [things] faithfully:over which Cononiah the Levite

[was] ruler, and Shimei his brother [was] the next. <brother>

2CH-31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and

Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and

Benaiah, [were] overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei

his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and

Azariah the ruler of the house of God. <asahel> <azariah>

<under>

2CH-31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter

toward the east, [was] over the freewill offerings of God, to

distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.

2CH-31:15 And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua,

and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the

priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by

courses, as well to the great as to the small:<amariah>

2CH-31:16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old

and upward, [even] unto every one that entereth into the house

of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their

charges according to their courses; <beside> <charges> <daily>

2CH-31:17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of

their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward,

in their charges by their courses; <both> <charges> <fathers>

<years>

2CH-31:18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their

wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the

congregation:for in their set office they sanctified themselves

in holiness:<all> <congregation> <daughters> <genealogy>

2CH-31:19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [which were] in

the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city,

the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all

the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by

genealogies among the Levites. <all> <also> <among> <cities>

2CH-31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and

wrought [that which was] good and right and truth before the

LORD his God. <all> <before> <did> <god> <good> <hezekiah>

2CH-31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the

house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek

his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered. <all>

2CH-32:1 After these things, and the establishment thereof,

Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and

encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for

himself. <after> <against> <assyria> <came> <cities> <encamped>

2CH-32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and

that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, <against>

2CH-32:3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to

stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city:

and they did help him. <city> <counsel> <did> <fountains> <help>

2CH-32:4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped

all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of

the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find

much water? <all> <assyria> <brook> <come> <find> <fountains>

2CH-32:5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall

that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another

wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and

made darts and shields in abundance. <all> <also> <another>

2CH-32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and

gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the

city, and spake comfortably to them, saying, <captains> <city>

2CH-32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed

for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that [is]

with him:for [there be] more with us than with him:<afraid>

2CH-32:8 With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the

LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the

people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of

Judah. <arm> <battles> <fight> <flesh> <god> <help> <hezekiah>

2CH-32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his

servants to Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] against

Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of

Judah, and unto all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying,

2CH-32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye

trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem? <assyria> <do>

2CH-32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves

to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall

deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? <deliver>

2CH-32:12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places

and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye

shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

2CH-32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all

the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of

those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine

hand? <all> <any> <deliver> <done> <fathers> <gods> <have>

2CH-32:14 Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations

that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people

out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you

out of mine hand? <all> <among> <could> <deliver> <destroyed>

2CH-32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor

persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him:for no god

of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of

mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers:how much less shall

your God deliver you out of mine hand? <any> <believe> <deceive>

2CH-32:16 And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD God,

and against his servant Hezekiah. <against> <god> <hezekiah>

2CH-32:17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of

Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the

nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of

mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people

out of mine hand. <against> <also> <deliver> <delivered> <god>

2CH-32:18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech

unto the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to

affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the

city. <affright> <city> <cried> <jerusalem> <loud> <might> <on>

2CH-32:19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as

against the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the

work of the hands of man. <against> <earth> <god> <gods> <hands>

2CH-32:20 And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the

prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

2CH-32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the

mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp

of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his

own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they

that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

<with>

2CH-32:22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and

from the hand of all [other], and guided them on every side.

<thus>

2CH-32:23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and

presents to Hezekiah king of Judah:so that he was magnified in

the sight of all nations from thenceforth. <all> <brought>

2CH-32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and

prayed unto the LORD:and he spake unto him, and he gave him a

sign. <days> <death> <gave> <hezekiah> <him> <lord> <prayed>

2CH-32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the

benefit [done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up:therefore

there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. <again>

2CH-32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride

of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so

that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of

Hezekiah. <came> <days> <heart> <hezekiah> <himself> <humbled>

<wrath>

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