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2 Chronicles · read by Chuck Smith
180 verses, in order. Only the verses Chuck read aloud are shown.
2 Chronicles 1
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Now Solomon son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and highly exalted him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Solomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar in the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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That night God appeared to Solomon and said, "Ask, and I will give it to you!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Now grant me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may lead this people. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
2 Chronicles 2
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The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a skillful man endowed with creativity.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
2 Chronicles 3
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Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
2 Chronicles 4
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Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall.Read from KJV · The Building of the Temple Part 1
2 Chronicles 5
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So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. The Levitical priests carried them up.Read from KJV · The Building of the Temple Part 1
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There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.Read from KJV · The Building of the Temple Part 1
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For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.Read from KJV · The Building of the Temple Part 1
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There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.Read from KJV · The Building of the Temple Part 1
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Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place,Read from KJV · The Building of the Temple Part 1
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The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: "For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever." And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloudRead from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
2 Chronicles 6
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Then Solomon declared: "The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud;Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 1 Kings 5-8
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But the LORD said to my father David, 'Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.Read from ESV · Looking on the Heart
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And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: 'You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
2 Chronicles 7
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When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: "For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not contain all these offerings.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, 'You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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And others will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
2 Chronicles 8
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Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, "My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
2 Chronicles 9
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And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for him to explain.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants and cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 1 Kings 9-16
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not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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As for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
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And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 1-9
2 Chronicles 12
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After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 1 Kings 9-16
2 Chronicles 13
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and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt ?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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Now behold, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with their trumpets sound the battle call against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. And when they raised the cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
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So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 10-13
2 Chronicles 14
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And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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He commanded the people of Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandments.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
2 Chronicles 15
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Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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But as for you, be strong; do not be discouraged, for your work will be rewarded."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD's temple.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their heart. They had sought Him earnestly, and He was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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And he brought into the house of God the silver and gold articles that he and his father had dedicated.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
2 Chronicles 17
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Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek out the Baals,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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but he sought the God of his father and walked by His commandments rather than the practices of Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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So the LORD established the kingdom in his hand, and all Judah brought him tribute, so that he had an abundance of riches and honor.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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And the dread of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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and kept vast supplies in the cities of Judah. He also had warriors in Jerusalem who were mighty men of valor.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
2 Chronicles 18
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And he replied, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.' 'You will surely entice him and prevail,' said the LORD. 'Go and do it.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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So you see, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of these prophets of yours, and the LORD has pronounced disaster against you."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 14-18
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So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.Read from ESV · Deceived
2 Chronicles 20
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'If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.Read from KJV · God's Unfailing Word
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Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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And he said, "Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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You need not fight this battle. Take up your positions, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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Then Jehoshaphat's kingdom was at peace, for his God had given him rest on every side.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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And Jehoshaphat walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn away from it; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
2 Chronicles 21
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Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: "This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: 'You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
2 Chronicles 22
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Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
2 Chronicles 23
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Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD's people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
2 Chronicles 24
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Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them; but they would not listen.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
2 Chronicles 25
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.Read from KJV · Chosen Vessel - Bible Study & Sermon Preperation
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Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, "Why have you sought this people's gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?"Read from KJV · Chosen Vessel - Bible Study & Sermon Preperation
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But Amaziah would not listen, for this had come from God in order to deliver them into the hand of Jehoash, because they had sought the gods of Edom.Read from KJV · Chosen Vessel - Bible Study & Sermon Preperation
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So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.Read from KJV · Chosen Vessel - Bible Study & Sermon Preperation
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And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his own home.Read from KJV · Chosen Vessel - Bible Study & Sermon Preperation
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There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.Read from KJV · Chosen Vessel - Bible Study & Sermon Preperation
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He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of God with Obed-edom and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.Read from KJV · Chosen Vessel - Bible Study & Sermon Preperation
2 Chronicles 26
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, for he had become exceedingly powerful.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 19-27
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And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously so that he became powerful.Read from KJV · Exceedingly Beautiful
2 Chronicles 28
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So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
2 Chronicles 29
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 9-16
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Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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The whole assembly was worshiping, the singers were singing, and the trumpeters were playing. All this continued until the burnt offering was completed.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Then Hezekiah said, "Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD." So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced at what God had prepared for the people, because everything had been accomplished so quickly.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
2 Chronicles 30
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For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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This proposal pleased the king and the whole assembly.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: "Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to make war against Jerusalem,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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he consulted with his leaders and commanders about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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"Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged before the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater One with us than with him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles." So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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He made cities for himself, and he acquired herds of sheep and cattle in abundance, for God gave him very great wealth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, "In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Kings 17-25
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In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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"Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin's relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36
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So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Chronicles 28-36