Ezra 3

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Ezra 3

Ezra 3:1 When the seventh month arrived, and the Israelites were in their towns, the people gathered[1] as one in Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:2 The priests, Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his brothers, began to build the altar of Israel’s God and offer ascending[2] offerings on it, as it is written in the instruction[3] of Moses, the man of God.

Ezra 3:3 They set up the altar on its foundation and offered ascending offerings for the morning and evening to Yahveh, even though they feared the people of the lands.

Ezra 3:4 They celebrated the Festival of Huts[4] as prescribed and offered ascending offerings each day, based on the number specified by the judgment[5] for each festival day.

Ezra 3:5 After that, they offered the continual[6] ascending offering, the offerings at the beginning of each month, and for all Yahveh’s appointed[7] holy occasions, and the spontaneous voluntary donations brought to Yahveh.

Ezra 3:6 On the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer ascending offerings to Yahveh, even though the foundation of Yahveh’s temple had not yet been laid.

Ezra 3:7 They gave money to the stonecutters and artisans. They gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre so they could bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, according to the authorization given them by King Cyrus of Persia.

Ezra 3:8 In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God’s house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites, who were twenty years old or older, to supervise the work on Yahveh’s house.

Ezra 3:9 Jeshua with his sons and brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, and the sons of Judah and Henadad, with their sons and brothers, the Levites, joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.

Ezra 3:10 When the builders had laid the foundation of Yahveh’s temple, the priests, dressed in their robes and holding trumpets, and the Levites descended from Asaph, holding cymbals, took their positions to praise Yahveh, as King David of Israel had instructed.

Ezra 3:11 They sang with praise and thanksgiving to Yahveh: “For he is good; his covenant faithfulness[8] to Israel endures permanently.”[9] Then, all the people gave a great shout of praise to Yahveh because the foundation of Yahveh’s house had been laid.

Ezra 3:12 Many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first house wept loudly when they saw its foundation, but many others shouted joyfully.

Ezra 3:13 The people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shouting from that of the weeping because they were shouting so loudly, and the sound was heard far away.

[1] אָסַף = gather. Ezra 3:1; 9:4.

[2] עֹלָה = ascending (offering). Ezra 3:2, 3, 4, 5, 6; 8:35.

[3] תּוֹרָה = instruction. Ezra 3:2; 7:6, 10; 10:3.

[4] סֻכָּה = hut. Ezra 3:4.

[5] מִשְׁפָּט = judgment, justice. Ezra 3:4; 7:10.

[6] תָּמִיד = continual(ly). Ezra 3:5.

[7] מוֹעֵד = conference, appointed. Ezra 3:5.

[8] חֶסֶד = covenant faithfulness. Ezra 3:11; 7:28; 9:9.

[9] עוֹלָם = permanent/ly, ancient, future. Ezra 3:11; 9:12.

links:

God alone is Immortal
God is Different
shouting and weeping
they knew

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2 Samuel 16

2 Samuel 16

2 Samuel 16:1 When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba, Mephibosheth’s boy, was right there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred bunches of summer fruit, and a clay jar of wine.

2 Samuel 16:2 The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the boys to eat, and the wine is for those to drink who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

2 Samuel 16:3 “Where is your master’s grandson?” the king asked. “Why, he’s staying in Jerusalem,” Ziba replied to the king, “for he said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore my grandfather’s kingdom to me.'”

2 Samuel 16:4 The king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I bow before you,” Ziba said. “May I find favor with you, my lord the king!”

2 Samuel 16:5 When King David got to Bahurim, a man belonging to the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he was yelling curses as he approached.

2 Samuel 16:6 He threw stones at David and at all the royal servants, the people and the warriors on David’s right and left.

2 Samuel 16:7 Shimei said as he cursed: “Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, you wicked man!

2 Samuel 16:8 Yahveh has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul in whose place you became king, and Yahveh has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom. Look, you are in trouble because you’re a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 16:9 Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and remove his head!”

2 Samuel 16:10 The king replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything? He curses me this way because Yahveh told him, ‘Curse David! ‘ Therefore, who can say, ‘Why did you do that? ‘”

2 Samuel 16:11 Then David said to Abishai and all his servants, “Look, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my throat — how much more now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone and let him curse me; Yahveh has told him to.

2 Samuel 16:12 Perhaps Yahveh will see my affliction and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.”

2 Samuel 16:13 So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei was going along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he cursed David, threw stones at him, and kicked up dust.

2 Samuel 16:14 Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived exhausted, so they rested there.

2 Samuel 16:15 Absalom and all the Israelites came to Jerusalem and Ahithophel was with him.

2 Samuel 16:16 When David’s friend Hushai the Archite came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

2 Samuel 16:17 “Is this your loyalty to your friend?” Absalom asked Hushai. “Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

2 Samuel 16:18 “Not at all,” Hushai answered Absalom. “I am on the side of the one that Yahveh, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. I will stay with him.

2 Samuel 16:19 Furthermore, whom will I serve if not his son? As I served in your father’s presence, I will also serve in yours.”

2 Samuel 16:20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give me your advice. What should we do?”

2 Samuel 16:21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become repulsive to your father, everyone with you will be encouraged.”

2 Samuel 16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 16:23 Now the advice Ahithophel gave in those days was like someone asking about a word from God — such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.

links:

Ahithophel’s advice
check the facts
responding kindly
transition
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Ezra 2

Ezra 2

Ezra 2:1 These are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.

Ezra 2:2 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of Israelite men included

Ezra 2:3 Parosh’s descendants: 2,172.

Ezra 2:4 Shephatiah’s descendants: 372.

Ezra 2:5 Arah’s descendants: 775.

Ezra 2:6 Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,812.

Ezra 2:7 Elam’s descendants: 1,254.

Ezra 2:8 Zattu’s descendants: 945.

Ezra 2:9 Zaccai’s descendants: 760.

Ezra 2:10 Bani’s descendants: 642.

Ezra 2:11 Bebai’s descendants: 623.

Ezra 2:12 Azgad’s descendants: 1,222.

Ezra 2:13 Adonikam’s descendants: 666.

Ezra 2:14 Bigvai’s descendants: 2,056.

Ezra 2:15 Adin’s descendants: 454.

Ezra 2:16 Ater’s descendants of Hezekiah: 98.

Ezra 2:17 Bezai’s descendants: 323.

Ezra 2:18 Jorah’s descendants: 112.

Ezra 2:19 Hashum’s descendants: 223.

Ezra 2:20 Gibbar’s descendants: 95.

Ezra 2:21 Bethlehem’s people: 123.

Ezra 2:22 Netophah’s men: 56.

Ezra 2:23 Anathoth’s men: 128.

Ezra 2:24 Azmaveth’s people: 42.

Ezra 2:25 Kiriatharim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s people: 743.

Ezra 2:26 Ramah’s and Geba’s people: 621.

Ezra 2:27 Michmas’s men: 122.

Ezra 2:28 Bethel’s and Ai’s men: 223.

Ezra 2:29 Nebo’s people: 52.

Ezra 2:30 Magbish’s people: 156.

Ezra 2:31 the other Elam’s people: 1,254.

Ezra 2:32 Harim’s people: 320.

Ezra 2:33 Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people: 725.

Ezra 2:34 Jericho’s people: 345.

Ezra 2:35 Senaah’s people: 3,630.

Ezra 2:36 The priests included Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua: 973.

Ezra 2:37 Immer’s descendants: 1,052.

Ezra 2:38 Pashhur’s descendants: 1,247.

Ezra 2:39 and Harim’s descendants: 1,017.

Ezra 2:40 The Levites included Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants from Hodaviah’s descendants: 74.

Ezra 2:41 The singers included Asaph’s descendants: 128.

Ezra 2:42 The gatekeepers’ descendants included Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, and Shobai’s descendants: in all 139.

Ezra 2:43 The temple servants included Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants, Tabbaoth’s descendants,

Ezra 2:44 Keros’s descendants, Siaha’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,

Ezra 2:45 Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants,

Ezra 2:46 Hagab’s descendants, Shalmai’s descendants, Hanan’s descendants,

Ezra 2:47 Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants, Reaiah’s descendants,

Ezra 2:48 Rezin’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,

Ezra 2:49 Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants, Besai’s descendants,

Ezra 2:50 Asnah’s descendants, Meunim’s descendants, Nephusim’s descendants,

Ezra 2:51 Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants, Harhur’s descendants,

Ezra 2:52 Bazluth’s descendants, Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,

Ezra 2:53 Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,

Ezra 2:54 Neziah’s descendants, and Hatipha’s descendants.

Ezra 2:55 The descendants of Solomon’s slaves[1] included Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants, Peruda’s descendants,

Ezra 2:56 Jaalah’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,

Ezra 2:57 Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants.

Ezra 2:58 All the temple slaves and the descendants of Solomon’s slaves: 392.

Ezra 2:59 The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their ancestral houses and their seed[2] were Israelite:

Ezra 2:60 Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants: 652

Ezra 2:61 and from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai– who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and who bore their name.[3]

Ezra 2:62 These searched for their entries in the genealogical records but could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.

Ezra 2:63 The governor ordered them not to consume[4] the most sacred[5] things until a priest could consult the Lights[6] and Darks.[7]

Ezra 2:64 The whole combined congregation[8] numbered 42,360,

Ezra 2:65 which did not include their 7,337 male and female slaves[9] and 200 male and female singers.

Ezra 2:66 They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

Ezra 2:67 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.

Ezra 2:68 After they arrived at Yahveh’s house in Jerusalem, some of the family heads donated money to rebuild the house of God on its original site.

Ezra 2:69 Based on what they could give, they gave 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 priestly garments to the treasury for the project.

Ezra 2:70 The priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, and some people settled in their towns, and the rest of Israel settled in their towns.

[1] עֶבֶד = slave. Ezra 2:55, 58, 65; 9:9, 11.

[2] זֶרָע = seed. Ezra 2:59; 9:2.

[3] קָרָא = invite, cry out, convene, name. Ezra 2:61; 8:21.

[4] אָכַל = consume. Ezra 2:63; 6:21; 9:12; 10:6.

[5] קֹדֶשׁ = sacred. Ezra 2:63; 8:28; 9:2, 8.

[6] אוּרִים = lights. Ezra 2:63.

[7] תֻּמִּים = darks. Ezra 2:63.

[8] קָהָל = congregation. Ezra 2:64; 10:1, 8, 12, 14.

[9] אָמָה = female slave. Ezra 2:65.

links:

significant times
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2 Chronicles 35

2 Chronicles 35

2 Chronicles 35:1 Josiah observed Yahveh’s Passover and slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 Chronicles 35:2 He appointed the priests to their responsibilities and made them strong to serve in Yahveh’s house.

2 Chronicles 35:3 He said to the Levites who taught all Israel the sacred things of Yahveh, “Put the sacred ark in the house built by Solomon, son of David, king of Israel. Since you do not have to carry it on your shoulders, now work for Yahveh your God and his people Israel.

2 Chronicles 35:4 “Organize your ancestral houses by your divisions according to the written instruction of King David of Israel and that of his son Solomon.

2 Chronicles 35:5 Serve in the sacred place by the groupings of the ancestral houses for your brothers, the lay people, and according to the division of the Levites by house.

2 Chronicles 35:6 Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your brothers to carry out the word of Yahveh through Moses.”

2 Chronicles 35:7 Then Josiah donated thirty thousand sheep, lambs, and young goats, plus three thousand cattle from his possessions, for the Passover sacrifices for all the lay people who were present.

2 Chronicles 35:8 His captains also willingly gave spontaneous voluntary gifts to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, chief officials of God’s house, gave twenty-six hundred Passover sacrifices and three hundred cattle for the priests.

2 Chronicles 35:9 Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, captains of the Levites, donated five thousand Passover sacrifices for the Levites, plus five hundred cattle.

2 Chronicles 35:10 So the service was established; the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.

2 Chronicles 35:11 Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs, and while the Levites were skinning the animals, the priests splattered the blood they had been given.

2 Chronicles 35:12 They removed the ascending offerings so that they might be given to the groupings of the ancestral houses of the lay people to offer to Yahveh, according to what is written in the book of Moses; they did the same with the cattle.

2 Chronicles 35:13 They roasted the Passover lambs with fire according to the judgment. They boiled the sacred sacrifices in pots, kettles, and bowls, and they quickly brought them to the laypeople.

2 Chronicles 35:14 Afterward, they made preparations for themselves and the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were busy offering up ascending offerings and fat until night. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

2 Chronicles 35:15 The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. Also, the gatekeepers were at each temple gate. None of them left their tasks because their Levite brothers had prepared for them.

2 Chronicles 35:16 So all the service of Yahveh was established that day for observing the Passover and for offering ascending offerings on the altar of Yahveh, according to the command of King Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35:17 The Israelites who were present in Judah at that time also observed the Passover and the Festival of Matzah for seven days.

2 Chronicles 35:18 No Passover had been observed like it in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah followed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present in Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 35:19 In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed.

2 Chronicles 35:20 After all this that Josiah had prepared for the house, King Neco of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to conface him.

2 Chronicles 35:21 But Neco sent agents to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another house. God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God who is with me; don’t make him put an end to you!”

2 Chronicles 35:22 But Josiah did not turn away from him; instead, to fight with him, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God but went to the Valley of Megiddo to fight.

2 Chronicles 35:23 The archers shot King Josiah, and he said to his slaves, “Take me away, for I am severely wounded!”

2 Chronicles 35:24 So his slaves took him out of the war chariot, carried him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem. Then he died, and they buried him in the tomb of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

2 Chronicles 35:25 Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the male and female singers still speak of Josiah in their dirges today. They established them as a prescribed task for Israel, and notice, they are written in the Dirges. 2 Chronicles 35:26 The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign, along with his deeds of covenant faithfulness according to what is written in the instruction of Yahveh,

2 Chronicles 35:27 and notice his words, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

links:

an unexpected mouth
keep listening
looking back, looking forward
the feast, the past and the future

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2 Chronicles 34

2 Chronicles 34

2 Chronicles 34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:2 He did what was right in Yahveh’s sight and walked in the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn aside to the right or the left.

2 Chronicles 34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year, he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

2 Chronicles 34:4 Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he chopped down the shrines that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

2 Chronicles 34:5 He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So, he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:6 He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali and on their surrounding mountain shrines.

2 Chronicles 34:7 He tore down the altars, and he crushed the Asherah poles and the carved images to powder. He chopped down all the shrines throughout the land of Israel and returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the house, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, along with Maaseiah the captain of the city and the court historian Joah son of Joahaz, to strengthen the house of Yahveh his God.

2 Chronicles 34:9 So they went to the high priest, Hilkiah, and gave him the silver brought into God’s house. The Levites and the doorkeepers had gathered it from Manasseh, Ephraim, the entire remnant of Israel, all Judah, Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:10 They gave it to those doing the work- those who oversaw Yahveh’s house. They gave it to the workers who were working in Yahveh’s house, to repair and strengthen the house;

2 Chronicles 34:11 they gave it to the carpenters and builders and also used it to buy quarried stone and timbers– for joining and making beams– for the houses that Judah’s kings had put an end to.

2 Chronicles 34:12 The men were doing the work with integrity. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites as supervisors. The Levites were all skilled with musical instruments.

2 Chronicles 34:13 They also oversaw the porters and supervised all those doing the work task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.

2 Chronicles 34:14 When they brought out the silver that had been deposited in Yahveh’s house, the priest Hilkiah found the book of Yahveh’s instruction written by Moses.

2 Chronicles 34:15 Hilkiah, answering, told the court secretary Shaphan, “I have found the book of the instruction in Yahveh’s house,” and he gave the book to Shaphan.

2 Chronicles 34:16 Shaphan took the book to the king, and continually reported, “Your slaves are doing all that was placed in their hands.

2 Chronicles 34:17 They have emptied the silver that was found in Yahveh’s house and have given it to the overseers and those doing the work.”

2 Chronicles 34:18 Then the court secretary Shaphan told the king, “The priest Hilkiah gave me a book,” and Shaphan read from it in the king’s presence.

2 Chronicles 34:19 When the king heard the words of the instruction, he tore his clothes.

2 Chronicles 34:20 Then he commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, the court secretary Shaphan, and the king’s slave Asaiah,

2 Chronicles 34:21 “Go and inquire of Yahveh for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that was found. For great is Yahveh’s wrath that is poured out on us because our ancestors have not regarded the word of Yahveh in order to do everything written in this book.”

2 Chronicles 34:22 So Hilkiah and those the king had designated went to the prophetess Huldah, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, guard of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District. They spoke with her about this.

2 Chronicles 34:23 She said to them, “This is what Yahveh God of Israel says: Say to the man who sent you to me,

2 Chronicles 34:24 ‘This is what Yahveh says: Notice, I am about to bring disaster on this place and its inhabitants, fulfilling all the oaths written in the book that they read in the presence of the king of Judah,

2 Chronicles 34:25 because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods so as to anger me with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’

2 Chronicles 34:26 says this to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of Yahveh: ‘This is what Yahveh, God of Israel, says: As for the words that you heard,

2 Chronicles 34:27 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before me, and you tore your clothes and wept before me, I have heard- this is Yahveh’s declaration.

2 Chronicles 34:28 ‘Notice, I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place and on its inhabitants.'” Then they reported to the king.

2 Chronicles 34:29 So the king sent messengers and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:30 The king went up to Yahveh’s house with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites– all the people from the oldest to the youngest. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in Yahveh’s house.

2 Chronicles 34:31 Then the king stood at his post and established a covenant in Yahveh’s presence to follow Yahveh and to guard his commands, reminders, and prescribed tasks with all his heart and with all his throat to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book.

2 Chronicles 34:32 He had all those present in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree to it. So all the inhabitants of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 34:33 So Josiah removed everything repulsive from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required all who were present in Israel to work for Yahveh their God. Throughout his reign, they did not turn aside from following Yahveh, the God of their ancestors.

links:

blaspheming heaven – Revelation 13-6
new mission
second mission

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