2 Chronicles 29 - 31
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j Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah the daughter of k Zechariah.
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
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In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he l opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.
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He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east
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and said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now m consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.
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For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They have forsaken him and n have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and turned their backs.
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They also o shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.
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Therefore p the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them q an object of horror, of astonishment, r and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
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For behold, s our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
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Now t it is in my heart u to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
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My sons, do not now be negligent, v for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him."
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Then the Levites arose, w Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of x the Kohathites; and of the sons of x Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the x Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
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and of the sons of y Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of z Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
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and of the sons of a Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of b Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
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They gathered their brothers and c consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, d by the words of the Lord, e to cleanse the house of the Lord.
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The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they 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 and carried it out to f the brook Kidron.
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They began to consecrate g on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
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Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, "We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.
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All the utensils h that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord."
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Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of the Lord.
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And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats i 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.
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So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests received the blood j and threw it against the altar. And they slaughtered the rams, and their blood was thrown against the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs, and their blood was thrown against the altar.
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Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, k and they laid their hands on them,
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and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, l to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
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m And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, n according to the commandment of David and of Gad o the king's seer and of p Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the Lord through his prophets.
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The Levites stood with q the instruments of David, r and the priests with the trumpets.
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Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, s the song to the Lord began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
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The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
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When the offering was finished, t the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
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And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.
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Then Hezekiah said, u "You have now consecrated yourselves to the Lord. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the Lord." And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were v of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
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The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.
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And the consecrated offerings were 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep.
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But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, w their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished - x for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.
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Besides the great number of burnt offerings, there was y the fat of the peace offerings, and there were z the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the Lord was restored.
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And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had prepared for the people, for the thing came about suddenly.
2 Chronicles 30
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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 to the Lord, the God of Israel.
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For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover a in the second month -
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for they could not keep it b at that time c because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem -
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and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.
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So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, d from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it as often as prescribed.
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e So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, f return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of g the kings of Assyria.
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h Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.
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i Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, j that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
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For f if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children k will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For l the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, m if you return to him."
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e So the couriers went from city to city through the country of n Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but o they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
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However, p some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
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The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded q by the word of the Lord.
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And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread r in the second month, a very great assembly.
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They set to work and removed s the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away t and threw into the Kidron Valley.
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u And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. v And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, w so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
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x They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses y the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.
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For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the Lord.
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For a majority of the people, z many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise a than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Lord pardon everyone
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b who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness."
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And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
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And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept c the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with all their might to the Lord.
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And Hezekiah spoke d encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the Lord. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing e peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
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Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast f for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.
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For Hezekiah king of Judah g gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests h consecrated themselves in great numbers.
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The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, i and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
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So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for j since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.
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Then k the priests and the Levites arose and l blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to m his holy habitation in heaven.
2 Chronicles 31
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Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and n broke in pieces the o pillars and cut down p the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.
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And Hezekiah appointed q the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, r for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the Lord and to give thanks and praise.
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s The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, t as it is written in the Law of the Lord.
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And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give u the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the Lord.
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As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly v the tithe of everything.
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And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and w the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the Lord their God, and laid them in heaps.
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In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
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When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.
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And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.
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Azariah the chief priest, who was x of the house of Zadok, answered him, "Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, y for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left."
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Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare z chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.
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And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer a in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with b Shimei his brother as second,
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b while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, b Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and x Azariah the chief officer of the house of God.
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And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the Lord and the most holy offerings.
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b Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in d the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brothers, old and young alike, by divisions,
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except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upward - all who entered the house of the Lord e as the duty of each day required - for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.
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The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levites f from twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions.
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They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.
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And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were g designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone among the Levites who was enrolled.
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Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, h and he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.
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And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.
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2 Chronicles 29:1 - 2
Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.
2 Kings 18:1 - 3
In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.
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2 Chronicles 26:5
He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.
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2 Chronicles 29:7
They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 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 he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 29:15
They gathered their brothers and consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 29:34
But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished - for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.
2 Chronicles 35:6
And slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the Lord by Moses.
1 Chronicles 15:12
And said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.
Ezra 6:20
For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.
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Jeremiah 2:27
Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!
Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
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2 Chronicles 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 he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 24:18
And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
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Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Jeremiah 19:8
And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day.
Jeremiah 29:18
I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them.
Micah 6:16
For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.
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2 Chronicles 28:5 - 6
Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.
2 Chronicles 28:8
The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 28:17
For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.
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1 Chronicles 22:7
David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.
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2 Chronicles 15:12
And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul.
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Numbers 3:6
Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
Numbers 8:14
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers 18:2
And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
Numbers 18:6
And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
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2 Chronicles 31:13
While Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God.
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Numbers 3:17
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
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Numbers 3:17
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
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Numbers 3:17
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
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1 Chronicles 15:8
Of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, with 200 of his brothers.
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1 Chronicles 6:39
And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea.
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1 Chronicles 6:33
These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel.
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1 Chronicles 9:16
And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
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2 Chronicles 29:5
And said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.
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2 Chronicles 30:12
The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.
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Nehemiah 13:9
Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.
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2 Samuel 15:23
And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
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2 Chronicles 29:3
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.
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2 Chronicles 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 he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
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Leviticus 4:14
When the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting.
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Leviticus 8:15
And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it.
Leviticus 8:19
And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.
Leviticus 8:24
Then he presented Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.
Hebrews 9:21
And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.
2 Chronicles 35:11
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.
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Leviticus 4:15
And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord, and the bull shall be killed before the Lord.
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Leviticus 4:26
And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
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1 Chronicles 16:4
Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 25:6
They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 15:16
David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
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2 Chronicles 8:14
According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles 23:5
4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.
1 Chronicles 25:1
David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:
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1 Samuel 9:9
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)
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2 Samuel 12:1
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
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1 Chronicles 23:5
4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.
Amos 6:5
Who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music.
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1 Chronicles 15:24
Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.
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2 Chronicles 23:18
And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
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2 Chronicles 20:18
Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshiping the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 13:9
Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.
Exodus 28:41
And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
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Exodus 35:5
Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord 's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze.
Exodus 35:22
So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 35:11
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.
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2 Chronicles 30:3
For they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem -
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Leviticus 3:1
If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.
Leviticus 3:16
And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the Lord 's.
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Numbers 15:5
And you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.
Numbers 15:7
And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Numbers 15:10
And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 30:13
And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
2 Chronicles 30:15
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
Numbers 9:10 - 11
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 29:17
They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
Exodus 12:6
And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
Exodus 12:18
In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
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2 Chronicles 29:34
But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished - for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.
2 Chronicles 30:24
For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.
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2 Samuel 3:10
To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.
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Esther 3:13
Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
Esther 3:15
The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.
Esther 8:10
And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud.
Esther 8:14
So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.
Jeremiah 51:31
One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side.
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Jeremiah 4:1
If you return, O Israel, declares the Lord, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver.
Joel 2:12 - 13
Yet even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.
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2 Kings 15:19
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.
2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
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Ezekiel 20:18
And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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Exodus 32:9
And the Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this p...
Deuteronomy 9:6
Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not ...
Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart...
2 Kings 17:14
But they would not listen, but were stubborn, a...
Nehemiah 9:16
But they and our fathers acted presumptuously a...
Nehemiah 9:29
And you warned them in order to turn them back ...
Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ...
Jeremiah 17:23
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, b...
Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart...
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2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
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2 Chronicles 30:6
So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
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Psalms 106:46
He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.
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Exodus 34:6
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him
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1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
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2 Chronicles 30:6
So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
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2 Chronicles 30:1
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 to the Lord, the God of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 36:16
But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
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2 Chronicles 30:18
For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Lord pardon everyone
2 Chronicles 30:21
And the people of Israel who 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 all their might to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:25
The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
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2 Chronicles 29:15
They gathered their brothers and consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month -
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2 Chronicles 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 he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 15:16
Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
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2 Chronicles 35:11
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.
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2 Chronicles 29:34
But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished - for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.
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Ezra 6:20
For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.
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2 Chronicles 35:10
When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
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Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
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2 Chronicles 30:11
However, some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:25
The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
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Exodus 12:43 - 49
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it.
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2 Chronicles 19:3
Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asherahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
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Exodus 12:15
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 13:6
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.
Ezra 6:22
And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 32:6
And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord 's hand double for all her sins.
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Leviticus 5:1
If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity.
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1 Kings 8:65
So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
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2 Chronicles 35:7 - 9
Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions.
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2 Chronicles 30:3
For they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem -
2 Chronicles 29:34
But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished - for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.
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2 Chronicles 30:11
However, some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:18
For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Lord pardon everyone
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2 Chronicles 7:8 - 10
At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
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2 Chronicles 5:5
And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.
2 Chronicles 23:18
And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
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Numbers 6:23 - 27
Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them.
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Deuteronomy 26:15
Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Psalms 68:5
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
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2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
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Deuteronomy 16:22
And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
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Deuteronomy 16:21
You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
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1 Chronicles 23:6
And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 24:1
The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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1 Chronicles 23:30 - 31
And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising the Lord, and likewise at evening.
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2 Chronicles 35:7
Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions.
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Numbers 28:3 - 29:40
And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord : two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
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Nehemiah 13:10
I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.
Numbers 18:8 - 24
Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.
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Nehemiah 13:12
Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.
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Leviticus 27:30
Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord 's; it is holy to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 14:28
At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.
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1 Chronicles 6:8
Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Ahimaaz.
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Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
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1 Chronicles 9:26
For the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.
1 Chronicles 9:33
Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.
2 Kings 23:11
And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
Nehemiah 10:39
For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.
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2 Chronicles 35:9
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 lambs and young goats and 500 bulls.
Nehemiah 13:13
And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers.
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2 Chronicles 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 Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah.
2 Chronicles 29:14
And of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
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2 Chronicles 31:12
And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second.
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2 Chronicles 31:12
And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second.
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2 Chronicles 31:10
Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, "Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.
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2 Chronicles 31:12
And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second.
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Joshua 21:9 - 19
Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name.
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1 Kings 8:59
Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires.
Ezra 3:4
And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required.
Nehemiah 11:23
For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a fixed provision for the singers, as every day required.
Nehemiah 12:47
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
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1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, the heads of fathers' houses as they were listed according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 23:27
For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.
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2 Chronicles 28:15
And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
Numbers 1:17
Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named.
2 Chronicles 31:12 - 15
And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second.
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2 Kings 18:3
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
2 Kings 20:3
Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
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