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and spoke to them as the bloody young men had recommended, "My father made you bear a heavy burden, but I will make it heavier still. My father beat you with whips; I am going to beat you with bullwhips!" (2 Chronicles 10, 14)
King Asa took from his grandmother Maacah her title of queen mother, because she had made a hideous idol Asherah. Asa cut down the idol, and burned it in the wadi Kidron. Though the High places were not abolished in Israel, the heart of Asa was blameless all his life. He deposited the offerings dedicated by his father and his own offerings too, in the house of God, silver and gold and furnishings. (2 Chronicles 15, 16)
"Let there be a covenant between myself and you, as between my father and your father! With this I send you silver and gold. Come, break off your alliance with Baasah king of Israel, so that he goes away from me. (2 Chronicles 16, 3)
He put troops in all the fortified towns in Judah, and appointed governors in the land of Judah and in all the towns of Ephraim captured by his father Asa. (2 Chronicles 17, 2)
Yahweh blessed Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of David his father and did not worship Baal; (2 Chronicles 17, 3)
he served the God of his father, following his commandments and not following the example of Israel. (2 Chronicles 17, 4)
He followed the example of his father Asa without wavering, doing what is right in the eyes of Yahweh. (2 Chronicles 20, 32)
Their father had made them many gifts of silver, gold and jewels, and of fortified towns in Judah, but he made Jehoram his successor since he was the firstborn. (2 Chronicles 21, 3)
Then something written by the prophet Elijah came into his hand. It ran, "This is the word of Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor. You have not followed the example of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah, (2 Chronicles 21, 12)
It lasted for more than one year, and when the two years were over and his last hour had come, he died in great pain. The people did not light a bonfire in mourning for him as they had for his father. (2 Chronicles 21, 19)
He sinned against Yahweh as Ahab's family had done, for they were his advisers after his father's death, and they led him to his downfall. (2 Chronicles 22, 4)
King Joash forgot the kindness of Jehoiada, the father of Zechariah, and killed Jehoiada's son who cried out as he died, "Let Yahweh see and do justice!" (2 Chronicles 24, 22)
