2 Mambo ya Nyakati

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2 Mambo ya Nyakati 1:1
Solomon son of David established himself firmly over his kingdom. The LORD his God was with him and made him very great.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 1:3
Then Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place at Gibeon, because God’s tent of meeting was there, the one that Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 1:5
Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, had made the bronze altar and set it in front of the tabernacle of the LORD, and there Solomon and the assembly sought him.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 1:6
There Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the LORD at the tent of meeting, and he offered up a thousand burnt offerings on it.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 1:9
Now, LORD God, let your promise to my father David prove true, since you have made me king over a people as many as the dust of the earth.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 1:18
Solomon decided to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a palace for his own reign.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 2:3
I am now going to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him, for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the bread in rows regularly, and for burnt offerings every morning and evening, on Sabbaths, at new moons and at the appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is a duty Israel is to keep forever.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 2:10
Huram king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 2:11
Huram also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, full of insight and understanding, who will build a house for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 3:1
In Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, Solomon began building the house of the LORD. It was there that the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 4:16
and the pots, the shovels and the meat forks. All these things that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 5:1
So all the work that Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. Then Solomon brought in the things his father David had dedicated, and he put the silver, the gold and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 5:2
Then Solomon called together to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral families of the Israelites. They were to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD up from the city of David, that is, Zion.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 5:7
The priests then carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD into its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 5:10
The ark held nothing but the two tablets Moses had put in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 5:13
The trumpeters and the singers joined as one, making a single sound heard as they praised and thanked the LORD. As they raised the sound with trumpets, cymbals and other musical instruments and praised the LORD, “For he is good; his loyal love lasts forever,” the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 5:14
and the priests were unable to stand and do their service because of the cloud, since the house of God was full of the glory of the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:1
Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:4
He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his own mouth made a promise to my father David and with his own hands has now fulfilled it. For he said,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:7
My father David had it in his heart to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:8
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘You wanted to build a house for my name, and you did well to have this in your heart.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:10
Now the LORD has kept the promise he made. I have taken the place of my father David and sit on Israel’s throne, as the LORD promised, and I have built this house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:11
There I have placed the ark, which holds the covenant of the LORD that he made with the Israelites.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:12
Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the LORD, in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:14
He said, “The LORD, God of Israel, no God in heaven or on earth is like you. You keep your covenant and show faithful love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:16
Now, the LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant, my father David, the promise you made to him: ‘You will never lack a man of your line sitting before me on the throne of Israel, as long as your descendants watch how they live and walk in my law as you have walked before me.’
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:17
So now, the LORD, God of Israel, let the promise you made to your servant David be confirmed.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:19
Yet listen to the prayer of your servant and to his plea for mercy, the LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant prays before you,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:41
And now rise up, LORD God! Come to the place where you will rest, you and the ark of your might. Let your priests, LORD God, be dressed in salvation, and let those loyal to you rejoice in good things.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 6:42
LORD God, do not refuse the kings you have anointed. Remember the faithful love shown to David your servant.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:1
As soon as Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and devoured the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the house was filled with the glory of the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:2
The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, since the house of the LORD was full of the glory of the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:3
All the Israelites saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD over the house, and they knelt with their faces to the ground on the pavement. They worshiped and gave the LORD thanks, for he is good; his loyal love lasts forever.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:4
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:6
The priests stood at their posts, and so did the Levites with the instruments for the LORD’s music that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD, for his loyal love lasts forever, whenever David offered praise through them. Opposite them the priests sounded the trumpets, and all Israel stood.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:7
Solomon made holy the central part of the courtyard before the house of the LORD. He offered there the burnt offerings and the fat parts of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:10
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he let the people go home, joyful and glad at heart for the good the LORD had done for David and for Solomon and for Israel his people.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:11
So Solomon completed the house of the LORD and the royal palace. Everything he had set his heart on doing in the house of the LORD and in his own palace, he carried out with success.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:12
Then during the night the LORD appeared to Solomon. He said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:21
And this house, high as it once stood, will leave everyone who passes by it appalled. They will ask, ‘Why has the LORD dealt like this with this land and this house?’
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 7:22
And people will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshiped and served them. That is why he has brought all this disaster on them.’”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 8:1
At the end of the twenty years it took Solomon to build the LORD’s house and his own palace,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 8:11
Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house he had built for her. His reason was this: “No wife of mine is to live in the house of David king of Israel, since the places where the ark of the LORD has come are holy.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 8:12
Then Solomon presented burnt offerings to the LORD on the LORD’s altar, which he had built in front of the porch,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 8:16
So all Solomon’s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. The house of the LORD was complete.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 9:4
the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the service of his attendants and their robes, his cupbearers and their robes, and the burnt offerings he offered at the house of the LORD, she was left breathless.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 9:8
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loves Israel and would make it stand firm forever, he has made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 9:11
The king used the algum wood to make steps for the house of the LORD and the royal palace, as well as lyres and harps for the singers. Nothing like them had ever been seen before in the land of Judah.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 10:15
So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events came from God, so that the LORD might fulfill the word he had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 11:2
But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God:
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 11:4
‘The LORD says this: Do not go up to fight against your relatives. Go home, every one of you, for this thing has come from me.’” So they heeded the words of the LORD and turned back from marching against Jeroboam.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 11:14
The Levites left their pasturelands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out of their service as priests of the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 11:16
Following them, people from all the tribes of Israel who had set their hearts on seeking the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:1
When Rehoboam’s kingdom was firmly established and he had become strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:2
In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, because they had broken faith with the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:5
Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the officials of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and said to them, “The LORD says this: You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to Shishak.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:6
Then the officials of Israel and the king humbled themselves. “The LORD is righteous,” they said.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:7
When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, a word from the LORD came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:9
So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He carried off the treasures of the house of the LORD and those of the king’s palace. He took everything, even the gold shields Solomon had made.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:11
Whenever the king went into the house of the LORD, the guards came and carried the shields, and afterward they brought them back to the guardroom.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:12
Because he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned back from him and did not destroy him completely. And there were also good things in Judah.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:13
King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place for his name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 12:14
He did what was evil, because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:5
Should you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingship over Israel to David and his sons forever by a covenant of salt?
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:8
And now you mean to stand against the kingdom of the LORD that David’s sons hold. You are a vast horde, and with you are the golden calves Jeroboam made to be your gods.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:9
Did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, Aaron’s sons, together with the Levites, and make your own priests as the peoples of other lands do? Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:10
But we have the LORD as our God, and we have not forsaken him. Sons of Aaron serve the LORD as priests, and the Levites are at their work.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:11
Every morning and every evening they burn burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. The bread is set out in rows on the pure table, and the lamps on the golden lampstand are lit every evening. For we are keeping the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:12
Look, God is with us at our head, and his priests are here with their trumpets to sound the battle call against you. Israelites, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:14
When Judah turned, they saw that the battle was in front of them and behind them. They cried out to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:18
So the Israelites were humbled at that time, and the men of Judah won the day, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 13:20
Jeroboam did not regain his power during the days of Abijah. The LORD struck him, and he died.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 14:1
Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the LORD his God.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 14:3
He commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and to carry out the law and its commands.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 14:5
He built fortified cities in Judah, since the land had peace. No one went to war with him in those years, because the LORD had given him rest.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 14:6
He said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, for we have sought the LORD our God. We sought him, and he gave us rest all around.” So they built, and they prospered.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 14:10
Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “LORD, there is no one but you to help when the weak stand against the strong. Help us, LORD our God, because we are depending on you; it is in your name that we have marched out against this huge army. LORD, you are our God. Let no mortal hold out against you.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 14:11
The LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 14:12
Asa and the troops with him chased them as far as Gerar. So many Cushites fell that they could not recover; they were shattered before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried off a great deal of plunder.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 14:13
They attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the dread of the LORD lay on them. They plundered all those cities, since there was a great deal of plunder in them.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:2
He went out to meet Asa and spoke to him: “Hear me, Asa, and all of Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you as long as you are with him. If you seek him, he will let you find him; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:4
But in their distress they turned back to the LORD the God of Israel; they sought him, and he let them find him.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:8
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he gathered his courage. He removed the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that stood in front of the porch of the LORD’s temple.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:9
He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who were living among them as outsiders. Great numbers had deserted to him from Israel, because they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:11
On that day they sacrificed to the LORD from the plunder they had brought back: 700 cattle and 7,000 sheep.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:12
They entered into the covenant: they would seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their soul,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:13
and anyone, young or old, man or woman, who refused to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, would be put to death.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:14
They swore an oath to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouts of joy, and with trumpets and rams’ horns.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 15:15
All Judah rejoiced over the oath, because they had sworn it with all their heart and had sought him with all their desire, and he let them find him. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 16:2
Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s palace, and sent it to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who ruled in Damascus, with this message:
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 16:7
At that time the seer Hanani came to Asa king of Judah and told him, “You relied on the king of Aram and did not rely on the LORD your God. Because of that, the army of the king of Aram has slipped out of your hand.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 16:8
Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a huge army, with chariots and horsemen in great numbers? But you relied on the LORD, and so he handed them over to you.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD roam over all the earth, so that he may show his strength for those whose hearts are undivided toward him. You have acted foolishly in this matter, and from this time on you will face wars.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 16:12
Asa’s feet became diseased in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, and the disease grew very severe. Even in his sickness he did not seek the LORD; he sought only the physicians.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 17:3
The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he followed the earlier ways of his ancestor David and did not seek the Baals,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 17:5
The LORD made the kingdom secure under his rule. All Judah brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 17:6
His heart was bold in the ways of the LORD, and he also removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 17:9
They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the LORD with them. They went around to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 17:10
The dread of the LORD was on all the kingdoms of the lands around Judah, so they did not go to war against Jehoshaphat.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 17:16
next to him was Amasiah son of Zichri, who had volunteered himself for the LORD, and with him 200,000 mighty warriors.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:4
But Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “First, please seek the word of the LORD.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:6
But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no other prophet of the LORD here whom we can ask?”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:7
The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we could inquire of the LORD: Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him, for his prophecies about me are never good, but always bad.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not speak like that.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:10
Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made himself iron horns, and he said, “The LORD says this: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.’”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:11
All the prophets were prophesying the same thing: “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and be victorious. The LORD will give it into the king’s hand.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:13
But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, whatever my God says is what I will speak.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:15
But the king said to him, “How often must I put you under oath to tell me only the truth in the name of the LORD?”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:16
Then Micaiah said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills, like sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each of them go home in peace.’”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:18
Micaiah went on, “Then hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD seated on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing at his right and at his left.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:19
The LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ Some suggested one thing and some another.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:20
Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.’ The LORD asked him, ‘How?’
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:22
So now, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these prophets of yours. The LORD has decreed disaster for you.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:23
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up and slapped Micaiah on the cheek. “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD take from me to speak to you?” he asked.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:27
Micaiah said, “If you ever come back safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” And he added, “Listen, all you peoples!”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 18:31
When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “That is the king of Israel!” So they closed in on him to attack, and Jehoshaphat cried out. The LORD helped him; God drew them away from him.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 19:2
Jehu son of Hanani the seer came out to meet the king. He said to Jehoshaphat, “Is it right for you to help the wicked and to love those who hate the LORD? For this, wrath has come upon you from the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 19:4
Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, but once more he went out among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim. He brought them back to the LORD, their ancestors’ God.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 19:6
He said to the judges, “Think about what you are doing. You are not judging for human beings but for the LORD, and he is with you when you give a verdict.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 19:7
So now, let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful in what you do, for the LORD our God does no wrong, plays no favorites and takes no bribe.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 19:8
In Jerusalem also Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites and priests and some of the heads of Israel’s families, to give judgment for the LORD and to settle disputes. And they returned to Jerusalem.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 19:9
He gave them this charge: “This is how you must act: in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with an undivided heart.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 19:10
Whenever a case comes to you from your fellow Israelites who live in their cities, whether it concerns bloodshed, or law and commandment, statutes and rulings, you must warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath fall on you and your fellow Israelites. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 19:11
Amariah the chief priest will be over you in every matter that concerns the LORD. In every matter that concerns the king, Zebadiah son of Ishmael, ruler of the house of Judah, will be over you. The Levites will serve you as officials. Act with courage, and may the LORD be with those who do good.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:3
Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved to seek the LORD. He proclaimed a fast for all Judah.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:4
The people of Judah gathered to seek help from the LORD; they came from every town in Judah to seek the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:5
Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the house of the LORD, in front of the new courtyard.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:6
He said, “LORD, God of our ancestors, are you not God in heaven? You rule over every kingdom of the nations. In your hand are power and might, and no one is able to withstand you.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:13
All Judah stood before the LORD, together with their little ones, their wives and their children.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:14
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the family of Asaph, there in the middle of the assembly.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:15
He said, “Listen, all Judah, people of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! The LORD says this to you: ‘Do not be afraid or lose heart because of this great army, for the battle is not yours; it belongs to God.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:17
You will not need to fight in this battle. Hold your ground, stand firm, and watch how the LORD will save you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or lose heart. Tomorrow go out to face them, and the LORD will be with you.’”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:18
Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:19
Then the Levites from the Kohathites and the Korahites stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:20
Early in the morning they set out for the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were leaving, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Hold firm in your trust in the LORD your God, and you will be held firm. Trust his prophets, and you will succeed.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:21
After consulting with the people, he appointed singers to sing to the LORD and to praise him in holy splendor as they went out ahead of the army, saying, “Give the LORD thanks, for his loyal love lasts forever.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:22
The moment they began their shouts of joy and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the invaders from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir who had come to attack Judah, and they were routed.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:26
On the fourth day they gathered in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the LORD. That is why that place has been called the Valley of Beracah to this day.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:27
Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat leading them, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had given them joy over their enemies.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:28
They came into Jerusalem with harps, lyres and trumpets, and went to the house of the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:29
When all the kingdoms of the lands heard that the LORD had fought against Israel’s enemies, the fear of God fell on them.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:32
He followed the ways of his father Asa and did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 20:37
Then Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat: “Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD will break down what you have made.” And the ships were wrecked and could not sail to Tarshish.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 21:6
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married Ahab’s daughter. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 21:7
Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David, for the sake of the covenant he had made with David, since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his descendants for all time.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 21:10
So Edom has been in rebellion against the rule of Judah to this day. Libnah also rebelled against his rule at that same time, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his ancestors.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 21:12
Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, which said, “The LORD the God of your ancestor David says this: Because you have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat, nor the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 21:14
so now the LORD is going to bring a heavy blow on your people, on your sons and your wives, and on all that you own,
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 21:16
Then the LORD stirred up the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Cushites against Jehoram.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 21:18
After all this the LORD struck him with an incurable disease of the bowels.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 22:4
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father’s death they were his counselors, to his destruction.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 22:7
Ahaziah’s downfall came from God, through his visit to Joram. When he arrived, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
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Then he searched for Ahaziah. They captured him as he was hiding in Samaria, brought him to Jehu, and put him to death. They buried him, because they said, “He is a grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” And no one was left in the house of Ahaziah with the strength to hold the kingdom.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 23:3
In the house of God the whole assembly made a covenant with the king. Jehoiada said to them, “Here is the king’s son! He shall reign, as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.
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one third will be at the king’s palace, and one third at the Foundation Gate. All the people will be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
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Let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and the Levites who minister there. They may enter, because they are holy, but all the people must keep the charge of the LORD.
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When Athaliah heard the noise of the people as they ran and praised the king, she went to the people at the house of the LORD.
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Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of hundreds who were in charge of the troops and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest had said, “Do not put her to death in the house of the LORD.”
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Jehoiada made a covenant binding himself, all the people and the king to be the people of the LORD.
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Jehoiada put the oversight of the house of the LORD in the hands of the Levitical priests, whom David had assigned in divisions over the house of the LORD. They were to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD as the law of Moses directs, with rejoicing and singing, as David had ordered.
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He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, to keep out anyone who was unclean in any way.
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He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers over the people and all the people of the land. He brought the king down from the house of the LORD. They went through the Upper Gate to the king’s palace and seated the king on the royal throne.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 24:2
Joash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
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Some time later Joash set his heart on restoring the house of the LORD.
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So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax for the tent of the testimony, which Moses the servant of the LORD and the assembly of Israel laid down?”
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For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God and had even used all the holy things of the house of the LORD for the Baals.
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At the king’s command they made a chest and placed it at the gate of the house of the LORD, on the outside.
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A proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem that the people should bring to the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God had laid on Israel in the wilderness.
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The king and Jehoiada gave the money to those in charge of the work on the house of the LORD, and they hired stonecutters and craftsmen to restore the house of the LORD. They also hired workers in iron and bronze to mend the house of the LORD.
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When they had finished, they brought what remained of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it they made articles for the house of the LORD: articles for the service and for the burnt offerings, dishes, and other articles of gold and silver. All the days of Jehoiada, burnt offerings were offered continually in the house of the LORD.
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They forsook the house of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and served the Asherah poles and the idols. Because of this guilt of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.
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Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. The prophets warned them, but they would not listen.
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Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up above the people and said to them, “God says this: ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’”
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But they plotted against him, and at the king’s command they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
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King Joash did not remember the faithful love that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, and he killed his son. As Zechariah was dying, he said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account!”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 24:24
Though the army of Aram came with only a few men, the LORD gave a very great army into their power, because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors. So they carried out judgment on Joash.
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He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not with a whole heart.
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But he did not put their children to death. In this he followed the law as it stands written in the book of Moses, in which the LORD gave this command: “Parents are not to die for their children, nor children for their parents. Each one is to die only for their own sin.”
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But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, the army of Israel must not go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with any of the people of Ephraim.
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Amaziah asked the man of God, “But what about the silver I have paid to the troops of Israel, the about 7,500 pounds?” The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than that.”
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So the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why have you sought the gods of this people, gods that could not rescue their own people from your hand?”
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From the time Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, some in Jerusalem formed a conspiracy against him, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent men after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
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He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
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He set himself to seek God during the lifetime of Zechariah, who taught him the fear of God. As long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.
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But when he had become strong, his heart grew proud, to his own ruin. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, and he went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the incense altar.
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Azariah the priest went in after him, along with eighty priests of the LORD, men of courage.
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They confronted King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not your place, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD. That belongs to the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been set apart to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful, and this will bring you no honor from the LORD God.”
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Uzziah became furious. He had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, and while he raged at the priests, a serious skin disease broke out on his forehead, there in front of the priests in the house of the LORD, beside the altar of incense.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 26:20
When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, there on his forehead was the skin disease! They rushed him out of there, and he himself hurried to leave, because the LORD had struck him.
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King Uzziah had a serious skin disease until the day he died. He lived in a separate house because of the disease, for he was shut out of the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
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He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done, except that he did not go into the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.
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He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he did much building on the wall of Ophel.
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Jotham grew strong, because he kept his ways steady before the LORD his God.
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Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD, as his ancestor David had done.
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He burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and burned his sons in the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out ahead of the Israelites.
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So the LORD his God handed him over to the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him, took a great many of his people captive and brought them to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who struck him a heavy blow.
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In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 in Judah, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
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But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army as it came to Samaria and said to them, “Look, it was because the LORD, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah that he handed them over to you. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.
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And now you intend to force the people of Judah and Jerusalem to become your male and female slaves. But are you not yourselves guilty of wrongs against the LORD your God?
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Now listen to me: send back the captives you have taken from your own relatives, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”
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They said to them, “You must not bring the captives here. What you intend would bring guilt on us before the LORD and add to our sins and our guilt. Our guilt is already great, and fierce anger is upon Israel.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 28:19
The LORD brought Judah low on account of Ahaz king of Israel, because he had let Judah throw off all restraint and had been grossly unfaithful to the LORD.
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Ahaz took a share of the wealth of the house of the LORD, of the royal palace and of the officials, and gave it to the king of Assyria, but it did him no good.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 28:22
In his time of distress this same King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
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Ahaz collected the vessels of the house of God and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors of the house of the LORD and made himself altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.
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In each and every town of Judah he set up high places for burning incense to other gods, and he provoked the LORD, the God of his ancestors, to anger.
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He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, in every way as his ancestor David had done.
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In his first year as king, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and made them strong again.
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He said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Consecrate yourselves now. Then consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your ancestors, and carry everything impure out of the holy place.
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Our fathers were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They forsook him; they turned their faces from the place where the LORD dwells and showed it their backs.
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So the wrath of the LORD came upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he made them an object of terror, horror and hissing, as you can see with your own eyes.
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I have now set my heart on making a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in the hope that the heat of his anger will turn away from us.
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My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to be his ministers and to burn incense.”
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They gathered their relatives and consecrated themselves, and they came to cleanse the house of the LORD, as the king had commanded by the words of the LORD.
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The priests entered the inner part of the LORD’s house to cleanse it. Everything unclean that they found in the temple of the LORD they brought out into the court of the LORD’s house, and the Levites took it from them and carried it outside to the Kidron Valley.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 29:17
The consecration began on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they had come as far as the porch 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.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 29:18
Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, “We have cleansed the whole house of the LORD: the altar of burnt offering together with all its utensils, and the table for the rows of bread together with all its utensils,
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and all the utensils that King Ahaz discarded during his reign, when he was unfaithful, we have prepared and consecrated. They are there in front of the altar of the LORD.”
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King Hezekiah rose early and gathered the officials of the city, and he went up to the LORD’s house.
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Seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs and seven male goats were brought as a sin offering on behalf of the kingdom, the sanctuary and Judah. The king told the priests, Aaron’s descendants, to offer them up on the LORD’s altar.
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He placed the Levites in the LORD’s house with cymbals, harps and lyres, as David had commanded, together with Gad the king’s seer and Nathan the prophet. The command had come from the LORD through his prophets.
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Then Hezekiah ordered the burnt offering to be offered on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began too, with the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
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King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the LORD using the words of David and of Asaph the seer. They praised joyfully, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Then Hezekiah said, “Now you have dedicated yourselves to the LORD. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the LORD’s house.” The assembly brought their sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were willing at heart brought burnt offerings.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 29:32
The number of burnt offerings that the assembly brought was seventy bulls, 100 rams and 200 lambs. All these were for burnt offerings to the LORD.
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Burnt offerings were also plentiful, together with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings that went with each burnt offering. In this way the service of the LORD’s house was set in order.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 30:1
Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters as well to Ephraim and Manasseh, calling them to come to Jerusalem, to the house of the LORD, to keep the Passover for the LORD, the God of Israel.
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So they issued a decree to send a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to Jerusalem to keep the Passover for the LORD, the God of Israel. For they had not kept it in great numbers, as it is written.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 30:6
The couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the king and his officials. As the king had commanded, they said, “Israelites, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and he will return to those of you who are left, who escaped from the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
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Do not be like your ancestors and your relatives, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror, as you see for yourselves.
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Now do not stiffen your necks as your ancestors did. Give yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has made holy forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that his burning anger may turn away from you.
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For if you return to the LORD, your relatives and your children will be shown compassion by those who took them captive, and they will come back to this land. The LORD your God is gracious and compassionate, and he will not turn his face away from you if you turn back to him.”
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 30:12
In Judah too the hand of God was at work, giving them one heart to carry out the command of the king and the officials, which followed the word of the LORD.
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They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. Ashamed, the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
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Since many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites took charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for all who were not clean, to consecrate them to the LORD.
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A large part of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, and yet they ate the Passover in a way that did not keep to what is written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, pardon
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everyone who sets their heart on seeking God, the LORD, the God of their ancestors, even if they are not clean as the sanctuary requires.”
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The LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
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The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem kept the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, while the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day after day, playing loud instruments for the LORD.
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Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the LORD. For the seven days of the festival they ate the festival meals, offering peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
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Hezekiah set the priests and the Levites in their divisions, each man according to his service, both priests and Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister and to give thanks and praise in the gates of the camps of the LORD.
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The king’s share from his own possessions went for the burnt offerings: those offered morning and evening, and those for the Sabbaths, the new moons and the appointed festivals, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
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He also told the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the priests and the Levites their share, so that they could give themselves fully to the law of the LORD.
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The Israelites and the people of Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a tithe of cattle and sheep, and a tithe of the holy things that had been consecrated to the LORD their God, and they piled them up in heap after heap.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 31:8
When Hezekiah and the officials came and looked at the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel.
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Azariah the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring the contributions into the house of the LORD, we have eaten our fill, with plenty left over, for the LORD has blessed his people. This great amount is what is left.”
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Then Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them.
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Kore son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the East Gate, had charge of the freewill offerings made to God, to give out the contributions for the LORD and the most holy gifts.
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apart from the males three years old and up who were enrolled in the genealogies, all who came into the house of the LORD to do the work each day required, serving in their duties by their divisions.
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Hezekiah did this throughout Judah. He did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.
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With him is only an arm of flesh, but we have the LORD our God with us, to help us and fight our battles for us.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
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Is Hezekiah not misleading you, handing you over to die of hunger and thirst, when he says, ‘The LORD our God will rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria’?
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His officials said still more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.
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He also wrote letters to insult the LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him: “Just as the gods of the nations of other lands have not rescued their people from my hand, so Hezekiah’s God will not rescue his people from my hand.”
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The LORD sent an angel, who cut off every mighty warrior, ruler and commander in the Assyrian king’s camp. Sennacherib went back to his own land in disgrace. And when he went into the house of his god, some of his own offspring cut him down there with the sword.
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In this way the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the power of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the power of everyone else, and he took care of them on every side.
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Many brought gifts to the LORD in Jerusalem and costly presents to Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was highly regarded by all the nations.
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In those days Hezekiah fell ill and was close to death. He prayed to the LORD, who answered him and gave him a sign.
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Then Hezekiah humbled himself for his proud heart, he and the people of Jerusalem with him, so the wrath of the LORD did not come on them in Hezekiah’s days.
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He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out ahead of the Israelites.
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He built altars in the house of the LORD, the house about which the LORD had said, “My name will be in Jerusalem forever.”
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He built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD.
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He made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, practiced fortune-telling, read omens and practiced sorcery, and consulted a medium and a spiritist. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
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Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
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The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
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So the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
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In his distress he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself deeply before the God of his ancestors.
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He prayed to him, and he was moved by his prayer. He heard his plea for mercy and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
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He removed the foreign gods from the house of the LORD, and the idol as well, together with every altar he had built on the temple mount and elsewhere in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city.
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He restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
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Even so, the people still sacrificed at the high places, though only to the LORD their God.
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The rest of the acts of Manasseh, including the prayer he made to his God and what the seers said to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are found in the Records of the Kings of Israel.
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He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done, offering sacrifices to all the carved idols his father had made and serving them.
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Unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble himself before the LORD. Instead Amon added more and more to his guilt.
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He did what was right in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his ancestor David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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When he had purged the land and the house, in the eighteenth year of his reign, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city governor and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make repairs on the house of the LORD his God.
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They handed it to the men doing the work, who had been put in charge of the house of the LORD, and they paid it to the workmen in the house of the LORD to mend and repair the house.
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As they were taking out the money brought into the house of the LORD, the priest Hilkiah found the book of the law of the LORD, given through Moses.
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Hilkiah spoke up and said to Shaphan the secretary, “In the house of the LORD I have found the book of the law.” Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.
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They have emptied out the money found in the house of the LORD and handed it over to the overseers and to the men doing the work.”
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“Go and ask the LORD on my behalf, and on behalf of those who are left in Israel and in Judah, about the words of the book that has been found. Great is the LORD’s anger that has been poured out on us, because our ancestors did not keep the word of the LORD or do all that is written in this book.”
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She said to them, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says this: Tell the man who sent you to me,
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‘The LORD says this: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on those who live in it, all the curses written in the book that was read before the king of Judah,
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But to the king of Judah, who sent you to ask the LORD, say this: ‘The LORD, the God of Israel, says this: As for the words you have heard,
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because your heart was tender, and when you heard his words against this place and its people you humbled yourself before God; and because you humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes and wept before me, I in turn have heard you, declares the LORD.
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The king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him went all the people of Judah and those who lived in Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all the people, from the greatest to the least. In their hearing he read out all the words of the book of the covenant, which had been found in the house of the LORD.
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The king stood in his place and made the covenant in the presence of the LORD: to follow the LORD and to keep his commandments, his decrees and his statutes with all his heart and all his being, and so to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book.
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Josiah removed all the detestable things from all the lands that belonged to the Israelites, and he made everyone present in Israel serve the LORD their God. As long as he lived, they did not turn away from following the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
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Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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He put the priests at their posts and urged them on in the service of the house of the LORD.
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He said to the Levites, who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built. You do not need to carry it on your shoulders. Serve the LORD your God now, and serve his people Israel.
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Slaughter the Passover lamb, consecrate yourselves, and prepare it for your fellow Israelites, so as to do what the LORD said through Moses.”
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They set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the divisions of the families of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, following what is written in the book of Moses. The cattle were handled in the same way.
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So all the service of the LORD was made ready that day, for keeping the Passover and for burnt offerings to be offered on the altar of the LORD, by King Josiah’s command.
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The rest of the acts of Josiah, and his faithful deeds in keeping with what is written in the law of the LORD,
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Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:7
Nebuchadnezzar also carried off to Babylon some of the vessels from the house of the LORD and placed them in his temple there.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:9
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:10
In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, along with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD. He made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:12
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke the word that came from the LORD.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:13
He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart, and would not turn to the LORD, the God of Israel.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:14
In the same way all the leaders of the priests and the people were more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD that he had set apart as holy in Jerusalem.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:15
The LORD, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he felt compassion for his people and for his dwelling place.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:16
But they made fun of God’s messengers, scorned his words and sneered at his prophets, until the fury of the LORD rose up against his people and nothing could heal them.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:18
He carried to Babylon all the vessels of the house of God, large and small, the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures belonging to the king and his officials.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:21
to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, until seventy years were complete.
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:22
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, so that the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah would be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he had a proclamation announced throughout his kingdom and also put it in writing:
2 Mambo ya Nyakati 36:23
“Cyrus king of Persia says this: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has appointed me to build a house for him at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever among you is one of his people, may the LORD their God be with them, and let them go up.”