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I shall add fifteen years to your life. I shall save you and this city from the king of Assyria's clutches and defend this city for my sake and my servant David's sake." ' (2 Kings 20, 6)
So Jehoiachin laid aside his prisoner's garb, and for the rest of his life always ate at the king's table. (2 Kings 25, 29)
And his upkeep was permanently ensured by the king, day after day, for the rest of his life. (2 Kings 25, 30)
'Since that is what you want,' God said to Solomon, 'since you have asked, not for riches, treasure, honour, the lives of your enemies, or even for a long life, but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people of whom I have made you king, (2 Chronicles 1, 11)
Though the high places were not abolished in Israel, Asa's heart was loyal throughout his life. (2 Chronicles 15, 17)
so the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said, 'Why have you not insisted on the Levites' bringing in the tax from Judah and Jerusalem for the Tent of Witness, as imposed by Moses servant of Yahweh and the community of Israel?' -- (2 Chronicles 24, 6)
He was still speaking when Amaziah interrupted him. 'Have we appointed you a royal counsellor? Stop, as you value your life!' So the prophet stopped, and then said, 'I know that God has decided to destroy you for having done this and for not listening to my advice.' (2 Chronicles 25, 16)
And the official genealogy included all their household, their wives, their sons and their daughters, throughout the community, since these men were obliged to keep sanctifying themselves anew. (2 Chronicles 31, 18)
so that they may offer sacrifices acceptable to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons. (Ezra 6, 10)
and that anyone who failed within three days to answer the summons of the officials and elders was to forfeit all his possessions and himself be excluded from the community of the exiles. (Ezra 10, 8)
Let our officials deputise for the whole community, and all the people in our towns who have married foreign wives can come at stated times, accompanied by elders and judges from each town, until our God's fierce anger over this is turned away from us.' (Ezra 10, 14)
He ridiculed the Jews and in front of his kinsmen and the aristocracy of Samaria he exclaimed, 'What are these pathetic Jews doing . . . ? Are they going to give up? Or offer sacrifices? Or complete the work in a day? Can they put new life into stones taken from rubbish heaps and even charred?' (Nehemiah 3, 34)
