These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 30
Tanakh 27 verses
- 1 And sent to all and , and wrote letters also to and , that they should come to the house of at , to keep the unto , the of .
- 2 For the had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in , to keep the in the second month.
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For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to .
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And the thing was right in the eyes of the and of all the congregation.
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- 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all , from Beer-sheba even to , that they should come to keep the unto , the of , at ; for they had not kept it in great numbers according as it is written.
- 6 So the posts went with the letters from the and his princes throughout all and , and according to the of the , saying: ‘Ye children of , turn back unto , the of , , and , that He may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of .
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And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who acted treacherously against , the of their fathers, so that He delivered them to be an astonishment, as ye see.
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Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto , and enter into His , which He hath sanctified for ever, and your , that His fierce anger may turn away from you.
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Exodus 32:9 2 Chronicles 29:10 Deuteronomy 10:16 2 Kings 23:26 Psalm 78:49 Psalm 73:17 Joshua 24:15 Romans 6:22 Psalm 63:2 Romans 10:21 Colossians 3:22-24 Psalm 132:13-14 Psalm 68:31 Romans 6:13-19 2 Chronicles 36:13 2 Chronicles 28:11 1 Chronicles 29:24 Deuteronomy 6:17 Ezra 10:19 Revelation 7:15 Psalm 68:24 Deuteronomy 6:13 Matthew 4:10 2 Chronicles 28:13 John 12:26 -
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For if ye turn back unto , your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come back into this land; for your is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away His from you, if ye return unto Him.’
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Psalm 106:46 Micah 7:18 Exodus 34:6-7 1 Kings 8:50 Leviticus 26:40-42 Isaiah 55:7 Deuteronomy 30:2-4 Psalm 86:5 Proverbs 28:13 2 Chronicles 7:14 Psalm 111:4 Nehemiah 9:31 Jeremiah 31:27-28 Jeremiah 18:17 Nehemiah 9:17 Psalm 145:7-8 Jonah 4:2 Ezekiel 18:30-32 Jeremiah 29:12-14 Psalm 86:15 2 Chronicles 15:2 - 10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of and , even unto ; but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
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Nevertheless divers of and and of humbled themselves, and came to .
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- 12 Also in was the hand of to give them one , to do the of the and of the princes by the of .
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And there assembled at much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
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- 14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in , and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
- 15 Then they killed the lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month; and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into the house of .
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And they stood in their place after their order, according to the of the man of ; the priests dashed the , which they received of the hand of the Levites.
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For there were many in the congregation that had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the lambs for every one that was not , to sanctify them unto .
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- 18 For a multitude of the people, even many of and , and , had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the otherwise than it is written. For had prayed for them, saying: ‘The good pardon
- 19 every one that setteth his to seek , , the of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the that pertaineth to things.’
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And hearkened to , and healed the people.
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- 21 And the children of that were present at kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised day by day, singing with loud instruments unto .
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And spoke encouragingly unto all the Levites that were well skilled in the service of . So they did eat throughout the feast for the seven days, sacrifices of -offerings, and giving thanks to , the of their fathers.
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And the whole congregation took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept other seven days with gladness.
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For of did give to the congregation for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep; and priests sanctified themselves in great numbers.
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And all the congregation of , with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of , and the strangers that came out of the land of , and that dwelt in , rejoiced.
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So there was great joy in ; for since the time of the son of of there was not the like in .
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- 27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard [of ], and their prayer came up to His habitation, even unto .