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His was a life well lived, in obedience to the Lord’s will; altar and hill-shrine of alien worship he overthrew,✻ (2 Chronicles 14, 2)
But you, take courage; never slacken your resolve; still for your loyal service you shall have reward. (2 Chronicles 15, 7)
and two hundred thousand under Amasias son of Zechri, that was set apart for the Lord’s service. (2 Chronicles 17, 16)
It was only when they had finished all this that the rest of the money collected was brought before the king and Joiada; with this they made all the appurtenances for worship and offering sacrifice in the temple; bowls, too, and other ornaments of gold and silver.✻ All through Joiada’s life-time burnt-sacrifice was offered in the Lord’s house; (2 Chronicles 24, 14)
forgotten, now, was the Lord’s temple, God of their fathers though he were; they must worship before forest shrines, and carved images. This guilt of theirs brought the Lord’s vengeance on Juda and Jerusalem; (2 Chronicles 24, 18)
He obeyed the Lord’s will, imitating the piety of Ozias, but not his sacrilege;✻ among the people, there were corrupt ways of worship still. (2 Chronicles 27, 2)
As my own sons I charge you, do not stand by with folded hands; on you the Lord’s choice has fallen, to wait upon his presence, ministering, and doing worship, and burning incense before him. (2 Chronicles 29, 11)
these Levites were bidden by the king and his nobles to praise the Lord with psalms of David, and of Asaph, the man of visions. Praise him they did with hearts full of joy, and they too bowed down to worship. (2 Chronicles 29, 30)
Thus was the worship of the Lord’s house restored in full. Greatly did Ezechias and all the people rejoice over their duty well done, for all that the resolve was taken so suddenly. (2 Chronicles 29, 36)
So couriers went out in the king’s service, bearing letters in his name and in the name of his nobles to Israel and Juda alike, and this was their purport; Come back, Israelites, to the Lord, all that remnant of you the Assyrian king has spared; and he, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, will come back to your side. (2 Chronicles 30, 6)
Ezechias himself spoke to hearten them, sons of Levi that had such skill in the Lord’s service. All the seven days of the feast they ate the victims of their own welcome-offerings, giving thanks to the Lord, their fathers’ God. (2 Chronicles 30, 22)
After all this faithful service done, Juda was invaded by Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, who laid siege to its fortified cities, thinking to make them his own. (2 Chronicles 32, 1)
