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2 Chronicles · read by William Skates
30 verses, in order. Only the verses William read aloud are shown.
2 Chronicles 5
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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 · Filled Houses
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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 · Filled Houses
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 · Restoration under Hezekiah
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In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.Read from KJV · Restoration under Hezekiah
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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 · Restoration under Hezekiah
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"Listen to me, O Levites," he said. "Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.Read from KJV · Restoration under Hezekiah
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Then they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them.Read from KJV · Restoration under Hezekiah
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And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.Read from KJV · Restoration under Hezekiah
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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 · Restoration under Hezekiah
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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 · Restoration under Hezekiah
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When the offerings were completed, the king and all those present with him bowed down and worshiped.Read from KJV · Restoration under Hezekiah
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Then King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the LORD in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads and worshiped.Read from KJV · Restoration under Hezekiah
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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 · Restoration under Hezekiah
2 Chronicles 34
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Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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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 · God's last man standing
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Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD written by Moses.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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And Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!" And he gave it to Shaphan.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothesRead from KJV · God's last man standing
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Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.Read from ESV · God's last man standing
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And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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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 · God's last man standing
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Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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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 · God's last man standing
2 Chronicles 35
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The Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, this Passover was observed.Read from KJV · God's last man standing
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After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.Read from KJV · God's last man standing