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Emily: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.

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Day 300 and 45

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Jotham was 25 years old
when he became King, and he

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reigned in Jerusalem 16 years.

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His mother was Jerusalem.

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The daughter of Zadak Jotham did what
was pleasing in the Lord's sight.

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He did everything his father Isaiah
had done except that Jotham did not

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sin by entering the temple of the Lord.

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But the people continued
in their corrupt ways.

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Jotham rebuilt the upper gate
of the temple of the Lord.

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He also did extensive rebuilding
on the wall at the hill of Al.

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He built towns in the hill country
of Judah and constructed fortresses

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and towers in the wooded areas.

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Jotham went to war against the
Ammonites and conquered them

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a over the next three years.

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He received from them an annual tribute
of 7,500 pounds of silver, 50,000 bushels

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of wheat, and 50,000 bushels of barley.

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King Jotham became powerful
because he was careful to live

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in obedience to the Lord his God.

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The rest of the events of Johan's
reign, including all his wars and

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other activities, are recorded in the
Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

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He was 25 years old when he became King,
and he reigned in Jerusalem 16 years.

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When Jotham died, he was
buried in the city of David.

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And his son, Ahaz, became the next king.

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Ahaz was 20 years old when he became King,
and he reigned in Jerusalem 16 years.

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He did not do what was pleasing
in the sight of the Lord as

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his ancestor David had done.

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Instead, he followed the
example of the Kings of Israel.

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He cast metal images
for the worship of Baal.

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He offered sacrifices in the
valley of Ben Ham even sacrificing

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his own sons in the fire.

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In this way, he followed the detestable
practices of the pagan nations.

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The Lord had driven from the
land ahead of the Israelites.

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He offered sacrifices and burned
incense at the pagan shrines and on

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the hills and under every green tree.

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Because of all this, the Lord,
his God allowed the king of Aram

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to defeat ahaz and to exile large
numbers of his people to Damascus.

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The armies of the King of Israel
also defeated Ahaz and inflicted

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many casualties on his army.

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In a single day, pka son of Aya Israel's
king killed 120,000 of Judah's troops.

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All of them experienced warriors
because they had abandoned the

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Lord, the God of their ancestors.

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Then Zaria, a warrior from Raam
killed Meia, the king's son, ASAM,

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the king's palace commander, and
Elena, the King's second in command.

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The armies of Israel captured 200,000
women and children from Judah and

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seized tremendous amounts of plunder.

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Which they took back to Samaria.

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But a prophet of the Lord named
ODed was there in Samaria when

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the army of Israel returned home.

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He went out to meet them and said,
the Lord, the God of your ancestors

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was angry with Judah and let you
defeat them, but you have gone too

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far, killing them without mercy,
and all heaven is disturbed.

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And now you are planning to make slaves
of these people from Judah and Jerusalem.

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What about your own sins
against the Lord your God?

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Listen to me and return these
prisoners you have taken for

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they are your own relatives.

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Watch out because now the Lord's fierce
anger has been turned against you.

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Then some of the leaders of
Israel Asiah, son of GI Johannan

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Bara, son of Michelle Lath.

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Gee, his Kaia son of Shalom and a Mesa
son of Hadley agreed with this and

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confronted the men returning from battle,
you must not bring the prisoners here.

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They declared.

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We cannot afford to add
to our sins and guilt.

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Our guilt is already great,
and the Lord's fierce anger is

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already turned against Israel.

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So the Warriors released the prisoners
and handed over the plunder in the

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sight of the leaders and all the people.

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Then the four men just mentioned by
name came forward and distributed

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clothes from the plunder to
the prisoners who were naked.

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They provided clothing and sandals to
wear, gave them enough food and drink,

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and dressed their wounds with olive oil.

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They put those who were weak on donkeys
and took all the prisoners back to their

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own people in Jericho, the city of Palms.

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Then they returned to Samaria.

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At that time, king aas of Judah
asked the king of Assyria for help.

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The armies of Edam had again invaded
Judah and taken captives, and

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the Philistines had raided towns
located in the foothills of Judah.

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And in the Negev of Judah, they had
already captured and occupied Beth Lon

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Ro Soko with its villages, Timnah with
its villages and gizo with its villages.

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The Lord was humbling Judah because
of King Ahaz of Judah, for he had

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encouraged his people to sin and had
been utterly unfaithful to the Lord.

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So when King Tig Lath Pizzer of
Assyria arrived, he attacked Ahaz.

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Instead of helping him, aas took
valuable items from the Lord's temple,

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the Royal Palace, and from the homes
of his officials, and gave them

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to the King of Assyria as tribute.

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But this did not help him.

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Even during this time of trouble, king
A has continued to reject the Lord.

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He offered sacrifices to the gods
of Damascus who had defeated him

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for, he said, since these Gods
helped the kings of Aram, they will

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help me too if I sacrifice to them.

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But instead, they led to His
ruin and the ruin of all Judah.

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The king took the various
articles from the Temple of

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God and broke them into pieces.

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He shut the doors of the Lord's
temple so that no one could worship

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there, and he set up altars to pagan
gods in every corner of Jerusalem.

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He made pagan shrines in all
the towns of Judah for offering

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sacrifices to other gods.

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In this way, he aroused the anger of
the Lord, the God of his ancestors, the

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rest of the events of Ajas reign and
everything he did from beginning to end.

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Are recorded in the book of
the Kings of Judah and Israel.

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When Ahaz died, he was buried in
Jerusalem, but not in the royal

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cemetery of the kings of Judah.

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Then his son, Hezekiah,
became the next king.

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Hezekiah was 25 years old when
he became the king of Judah, and

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he reigned in Jerusalem 29 years.

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His mother was a Baja,
the daughter of Zechariah.

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He did what was pleasing in the
Lord's sight just as his ancestor

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David had done in the very first
month of the first year of his reign,

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Hezekiah reopened the doors of the
temple of the Lord and repaired them.

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He summoned the priests and levies to meet
him at the courtyard east of the temple.

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He said to them, listen to me, you levies
purify yourselves and purify the temple

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of the Lord, the God of your ancestors.

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Remove all the defiled
things from the sanctuary.

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Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what
was evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

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They abandoned the Lord
and his dwelling place.

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They turned their backs on him.

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They also shut the doors to
the temple's entry room, and

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they snuffed out the lamps.

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They stopped burning incense and
presenting burnt offerings at the

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sanctuary of the God of Israel.

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That is why the Lord's anger has
fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem.

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He has made them an object of
dread, horror, and ridicule as

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you can see with your own eyes.

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Because of this, our fathers have been
killed in battle, and our sons and

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daughters and wives have been captured.

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But now I will make a covenant with the
Lord, the God of Israel, so that his

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fierce anger will turn away from us.

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My sons do not neglect
your duties any longer.

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The Lord has chosen you to stand in
his presence, to minister to him,

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and to lead the people in worship
and present offerings to him.

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Then these Levites got right to
work from the Klan of Coha May

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hath son of Amasai and Joel's son
of Azariah from the clan of Marai.

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Kish, son of Abdi and Azariah, son
of Jaha from the clan of Gershen.

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Joah, son of Zimmer and Eden, son of Joah
from the family of Eliza fan Shiri and

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Ja from the family of ASAP Zechariah and
Maiah from the family of Heman, Jeha,

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and Shiai from the family of Judean.

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Shama and Zeel.

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These men called together their fellow
Levites, and they all purified themselves.

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Then they began to cleanse the temple of
the Lord just as the king had commanded.

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They were careful to follow all the
lord's in instructions in their work.

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The priests went into the sanctuary of
the temple of the Lord to cleanse it, and

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they took out to the temple courtyard,
all the defiled things they found.

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From there, the Levites carted
it all out to the Kidron Valley.

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They began the work in early spring,
on the first day of the new year,

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and in eight days they had reached
the entry room of the Lord's temple.

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Then they purified the temple of the Lord,
it itself, which took another eight days.

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So the entire task was
completed in 16 days.

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Then the Levites went to King
Hezekiah and gave him this report.

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We have cleansed the entire temple of the
Lord, the altar of burnt offering with all

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its utensils and the table of the bread
of the presence with all its utensils.

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We have also recovered all the items
discarded by King aas when he was

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unfaithful and closed the temple.

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They are now in front of the altar
of the Lord, purified and ready

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for use early the next morning.

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King Hezekiah gathered the city officials
and went to the temple of the Lord.

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They brought seven bowls, seven
rams, and seven male lambs as a burnt

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offering together with seven male goats
as a sin offering for the kingdom,

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for the temple, and for Judah, the
king commanded the priests who were

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descendants of Aaron to sacrifice
the animals on the altar of the Lord.

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So they killed the bulls and
the priest took the blood and

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sprinkled it on the altar.

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Next, they killed the rams and sprinkled
their blood on the altar, and finally

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they did the same with the male lambs.

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The male goats for the sin offering
were then brought before the

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king and the assembly of people
who laid their hands on them.

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The priests then killed the goats
as a sin offering and sprinkled

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their blood on the altar to make
atonement for the sins of all Israel.

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The king had specifically commanded
that this burned offering and

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sin offering should be made
for all Israel King has aah.

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Then stationed the Levites at
the temple of the Lord with

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symbols, liars, and harps.

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He obeyed all the commands that the Lord
had given to King David through Gad,

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the king's seer, and the prophet Nathan.

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The Levites then took their positions
around the temple with the instruments

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of David and the priests took
their positions with the trumpets.

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Then Hezekiah ordered that the burnt
offering be placed on the altar as

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the burnt offering was presented.

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Songs of praise to the Lord were
begun, accompanied by the trumpets and

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other instruments of David, the former
King of Israel, the entire assembly

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worshiped the Lord as the singers
sang and the trumpets blew until all

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the burnt offerings were finished.

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Then the king and everyone with him
bowed down in worship, king Hezekiah

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and the officials ordered the Levites
to praise the Lord with the Psalms

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written by David and by Asaf, the Sr.

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So they offered joyous praise
and bowed down in worship.

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Then Hezekiah declared, now that you
have consecrated yourselves to the Lord,

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bring your sacrifices and thanksgiving
offerings to the temple of the Lord.

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So the people brought their sacrifices
and Thanksgiving offerings and

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all whose hearts were willing,
brought burnt offerings to.

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The people brought to the Lord
70 bowls, 100 rams and 200

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male lambs for burnt offerings.

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They also brought 600 cattle and 3000
sheep and goats as sacred offerings,

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but there were two few priests to
prepare all the burnt offerings, so

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their relatives, the Levites helped
them until the work was finished

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and more priests had been purified.

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For the Levites had been more
conscientious about purifying

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themselves than the priests had been.

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There was an abundance of burnt
offerings along with the usual

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liquid offerings and a great deal of
fat from the many peace offerings.

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So the temple of the Lord was restored
to service, and Hezekiah and all the

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people rejoiced because of what God
had done for the people, for everything

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had been accomplished so quickly.