Löydetty 940 Tulokset: Rebuilt Jerusalem
In the eighth year of his reign, when he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David. In the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the High places, the sacred trunks and the molten idols. (2 Chronicles 34, 3)
He burned the bones of their priests on their altars, and so purified Judah and Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 34, 5)
There too he destroyed the altars and symbols of the goddess, smashed the sacred trunks and the idols and ground them to powder, and tore down all the altars of incense throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 34, 7)
These men went to the high priest Hilkiah and handed over to him the money that had been brought to the house of God. The Levite gatekeepers had collected this money from Manasseh, Ephraim and all the rest of Israel, and from all the Judaeans and Benjaminites and from the people living in Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 34, 9)
Hilkiah and the king's men went to Huldah the prophetess, wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, the keeper of the Temple robes; she lived in Jerusalem in the new town. They spoke to her about this, (2 Chronicles 34, 22)
I am going to punish Jerusalem and all its people, carrying out all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah, (2 Chronicles 34, 24)
because they have abandoned me and have burned incense to other gods, stirring up my anger by everything they have done. Because of this my anger is aroused against Jerusalem, and it will not die down. (2 Chronicles 34, 25)
Since your heart has been touched and you have humbled yourself before God on hearing what he has threatened against Jerusalem and those who live in it, since you have humbled yourself before me and torn your garments and wept before me, I for my part have heard - this is Yahweh's word. (2 Chronicles 34, 27)
The punishment which I am going to bring on Jerusalem will not come until after your death. I will let you die in peace." They took this answer to the king. (2 Chronicles 34, 28)
The king then had all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem summoned, (2 Chronicles 34, 29)
and the king went up to Yahweh's House, with all the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, priests, Levites and all the people, great and small alike. In their hearing he read out everything that was said in the book of the covenant found in Yahweh's House. (2 Chronicles 34, 30)
He committed everyone there in Jerusalem or in Benjamin to obey the requirements of the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors. (2 Chronicles 34, 32)
