Hello, and welcome
back to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank
you for joining with me today
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to read the word of God. Let's
pray together before we start.
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Dear God, thank you so much for
the opportunity to come again
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apart from our life and the
busyness of it to sit quietly
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with your word. Please bless
us as we listen and read now
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together and may your Holy
Spirit show us the truth that
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you have for each one
of us. We love you so much,
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and thank you
for loving us. Amen.
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When we were last together we
were reading about the reign of
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King Hezekiah and how it was
blessed because of his obedience
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to God. We're picking up now
in 2nd Chronicles, chapter 32,
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and verse 23 and this
is the King James Version.
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And many brought gifts unto the
Lord to Jerusalem, and presents
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to Hezekiah king of
Judah: so that he was magnified
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in the sight of all
nations from thenceforth.
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In those days Hezekiah was sick
to the death, and prayed unto
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the Lord: and he spake unto
him, and he gave him a sign.
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But Hezekiah rendered not again
according to the benefit done
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unto him; for his heart was
lifted up: therefore there was
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wrath upon him, and
upon Judah and Jerusalem.
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Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled
himself for the pride of his
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heart, both he and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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so that the wrath of
the Lord came not upon them
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in the days of Hezekiah.
And Hezekiah had exceeding much
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riches and honor: and he made
himself treasuries for silver,
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and for gold, and for precious
stones, and for spices, and for
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shields, and for all
manner of pleasant jewels;
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Storehouses also for the
increase of corn, and wine,
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and oil; and stalls
for all manner of beasts,
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and cotes for flocks.
Moreover he provided him cities,
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and possessions of
flocks and herds in abundance:
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for God had given him substance
very much. This same Hezekiah
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also stopped the upper water
course of Gihon, and brought it
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straight down to the west
side of the city of David.
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And Hezekiah
prospered in all his works.
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Howbeit in the business of the
ambassadors of the princes of
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Babylon, who sent unto him to
inquire of the wonder that was
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done in the land, God left him,
to try him, that he might know
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all that was in his heart. Now
the rest of the acts of Hezekiah
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and his goodness, behold,
they are written in the vision
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of Isaiah the prophet, the
son of Amoz, and in the book of
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the kings of Judah and Israel.
And Hezekiah slept with his
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fathers, and they buried him in
the chiefest of the sepulchres
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of the sons of David: and
all Judah and the inhabitants of
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Jerusalem did him honor at
his death. And Manasseh his son
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reigned in his stead.
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Continuing now with
2nd Chronicles, chapter 33,
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This is the King James Version.
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Manasseh was twelve years
old when he began to reign,
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and he reigned fifty
and five years in Jerusalem:
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but did that which was
evil in the sight of the Lord,
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like unto the abominations of
the heathen, whom the Lord had
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cast out before the children of
Israel. For he built again the
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high places which Hezekiah
his father had broken down,
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and he reared up altars
for Baalim and made groves,
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and worshipped all the
host of heaven, and served them.
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Also he built altars
in the house of the Lord,
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whereof the Lord had said,
In Jerusalem shall my name be
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for ever. And he built altars
for all the host of heaven
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in two courts of the house
of the Lord. And he caused his
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children to pass through the
fire in the valley of the son
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of Hinnom: also he observed
times, and used enchantments,
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and used witchcraft, and dealt
with a familiar spirit, and
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with wizards: he wrought much
evil in the sight of the Lord.
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to provoke him to anger.
And he set a carved image,
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the idol which he made in
the house of God, of which God
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had said to David and to
Solomon his son, In this house
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and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen before all the tribes of
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Israel, will I put my name for
ever: Neither will I any more
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remove the foot of Israel from
out of the land which I have
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appointed for your fathers; so
that they will take heed to do
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all that I have commanded
them, according to the whole law
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and the statutes and the
ordinances by the hand of Moses.
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So Manasseh made Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to err,
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and to do worse than the heathen
whom the Lord had destroyed
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before the children of Israel.
And the Lord spake to Manasseh,
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and to his people: but
they would not hearken.
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Wherefore the Lord brought upon
them the captains of the host
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of the king of Assyria, which
took Manasseh among the thorns
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and bound him with fetters,
and carried him to Babylon.
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And when he was in affliction,
he besought the Lord his God,
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and humbled himself greatly
before the God of his fathers,
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and prayed unto him: and he was
entreated of him, and heard his
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supplication, and brought
him again to Jerusalem into his
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kingdom. Then Manasseh
knew that the Lord he was God.
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Now after this he build a
wall without the city of David,
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on the west side of Gihon, in
the valley, even to the entering
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in of the fish gate,
and compassed about Ophel,
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and raised it up a very great
height, and put captains of war
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in all the
fenced cities of Judah.
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And he took away the strange
Gods, and the idol out of the
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house of the Lord, and all the
altars that he had built in the
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mount of the house of
the Lord, and in Jerusalem,
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and cast them out of the
city. And he repaired the altar
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of the Lord, and sacrificed
thereon peace offerings
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and thank offerings, and
commanded Judah to serve the
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Lord God of Israel. Nevertheless
the people did sacrifice still
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in the high places, yet
unto the Lord their God only.
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Now the rest of the acts
of Manasseh, and his prayer
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unto his God, and the words
of the seers that spake to him
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in the name of the Lord God of
Israel, behold, they are written
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in the book of the kings
of Israel. His prayer also,
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and how God was entreated
of him, and all his sins,
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and his trespass, and the places
wherein he built high places,
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and set up groves and graven
images, before he was humbled:
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behold, they are written
among the sayings of the seers.
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So Manasseh slept with his
fathers, and they buried him
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in his own house: and Amon
his son reigned in his stead.
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Amon was two and twenty years
old when he began to reign,
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and reigned 2 years in Jerusalem
But he did that which was evil
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in the sight of the Lord,
as did Manasseh his father:
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for Amon sacrificed unto all
the carved images which Manasseh
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his father had made, and served
them; and humbled not himself
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before the Lord, as Manasseh
his father had humbled himself;
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but Amon trespassed more and
more. And his servants conspired
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against him, and
slew him in his own house.
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But the people of the land
slew all them that had conspired
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against king Amon and the people
of the land made Josiah his son
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king in his stead. - We're
continuing with 2nd Chronicles,
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chapter 34, and this
is the King James Version.
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Josiah was 8 years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned
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in Jerusalem one
and thirty years.
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And he did that which was
right in the sight of the Lord,
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and walked in the
ways of David his father,
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and declined neither to the
right hand, nor to the left.
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For in the 8th year of his
reign, while he was yet young,
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he began to seek after
the God of David his father:
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and in the 12th year he began
to purge Judah and Jerusalem
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from the high places, and the
groves, and the carved images,
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and the molten images. And they
brake down the altars of Baalim
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in his presence; and the images
that were on high above them,
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he cut down; and the
groves, and the carved images,
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and the molten images he brake
in pieces, and made dust of them
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and strowed it upon the graves
of them that had sacrificed
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unto them. And he burnt the
bones of the priests upon their
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altars, and cleansed Judah and
Jerusalem. And so did he in the
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cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim,
and Simeon, even unto Naphtali,
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with their mattocks round about.
And when he had broken down
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the altars and the groves,
and had beaten the graven images
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into powder, and cut down
all the idols throughout all
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the land of Israel,
he returned to Jerusalem.
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Now in the 18th year of
his reign, when he had purged
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the land, and the house, he
sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,
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and Maaseiah the governor of
the city, and Joah the son of
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Joahaz the recorder, to repair
the house of the Lord his God.
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And when they came to Hilkiah
the high priest, they delivered
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the money that was
brought unto the house of God,
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which the Levites that kept the
doors had gathered of the hand
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of Manasseh and Ephraim, and
of all the remnant of Israel,
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and of all Judah and Benjamin;
and they returned to Jerusalem.
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And they put it in the
hand of the workmen that had the
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oversight of the house of the
Lord, and they gave it to the
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workmen that wrought in the
house of the Lord, to repair
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and amend the house: even to
the artificers and builders gave
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they it, to buy hewn stone,
and timber for couplings, and to
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floor the houses which the
kings of Judah had destroyed.
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And the men did
the work faithfully:
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and the overseers of
them were Jahath and Obadiah,
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the Levites, of the
sons of Merari; and Zechariah
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and Meshullam, of the sons of
the Kohathites to set it forward
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and other of the Levites, all
that could skill of instruments
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of music. Also they were
over the bearers of burdens,
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and were overseers of all that
wrought the work in any manner
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of service: and of the Levites
there were scribes, and officers
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and porters. And when
they brought out the money
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that was brought into the house
of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest
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found a book of the law
of the Lord given by Moses.
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And Hilkiah answered and
said to Shaphan the scribe,
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I have found the book of the
law in the house of the Lord.
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And Hilkiah delivered the
book to Shaphan. And Shaphan
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carried the book to the king,
and brought the king word back
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again, saying, All that
was committed to thy servants,
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they do it. And they have
gathered together the money
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that was found in the house of
the Lord, and have delivered it
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into the hand of the overseers,
and to the hand of the workmen.
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Then Shaphan the
scribe told the king, saying,
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Hilkiah the priest had given
me a book, and Shaphan read it
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before the king. And it came
to pass when the king had heard
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the words of the law,
that he rent his clothes.
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And the king commanded Hilkiah,
and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
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and Abdon the son of
Micah, and Shaphan the scribe,
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and Asaiah a servant of
the king's saying, Go inquire
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of the Lord for me, and for them
that are left in Israel and in
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Judah, concerning the
words of the book that is found:
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for great is the wrath of the
Lord that is poured out upon us,
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because our fathers have
not kept the word of the Lord,
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to do after all that
is written in this book.
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And Hilkiah, and they
that the king had appointed,
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went to Huldah the prophetess,
the wife of Shallum the son of
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Tikvath, the son of
Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe;
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now she dwelt in Jerusalem
in the college: and they spake
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to her to that
effect, And she answered them,
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Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I
will bring evil upon this place,
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and upon the inhabitants thereof
even all the curses that are
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written in the book, which
they have read before the king
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of Judah: because they have
forsaken me, and burned incense
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unto other gods, that they might
provoke me to anger with all the
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works of their hand; therefore
my wrath shall be poured out
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upon this place, and
shall not be quenched.
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And as for the king of
Judah, who sent you to inquire
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of the lord, so shall ye say
unto him, Thus saith the Lord
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God of Israel concerning
the words which thou hast heard;
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Because thine heart was tender,
and thou didst humble thyself
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before God, when thou heardest
his words against this place,
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and against the inhabitants
thereof, and humbledst thyself
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before me, and didst rend
thy clothes, and weep before me;
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I have even heard
thee also, saith the Lord.
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Behold, I will gather thee to
thy fathers, and thou shalt be
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gathered to thy grave in peace,
neither shall thine eyes see
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all the evil that I
will bring upon this place,
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and upon the
inhabitants of the same.
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So they brought the king word
again. Then the king sent and
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gathered together all the
elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
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And the king went up
into the house of the Lord,
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and all the men of Judah, and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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and the priests, and the
Levites, and all the people,
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great and small: and he
read in their ears all the words
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of the book of the covenant
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that that was found
in the house of the Lord.
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