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 34
Tanakh 33 verses
- 1 was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in .
- 2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of , and walked in the ways of his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
- 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the of his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge and from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.
- 4 And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images, that were on high above them, he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
- 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged and .
- 6 And so did he in the cities of and and , even unto , with their axes round about.
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And he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of , and returned to .
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- 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of his .
- 9 And they came to Hilkiah the high , and delivered the money that was brought into the house of , which the Levites, the keepers of the door, had gathered of the hand of and , and of all the remnant of , and of all and , and they returned to .
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And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of ; and the workmen that wrought in the house of gave it to mend and repair the house;
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even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of had destroyed.
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- 12 And the men did the work faithfully; and the overseers of them were Jahath and , the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to preside over it; and other of the Levites, all that had skill with instruments of music.
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Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and presided over all that did the work in every manner of service; and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
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- 14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of , Hilkiah the found the book of the Law of given by .
- 15 and Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe: ‘I have found the book of the Law in the house of .’ And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
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And Shaphan carried the book to the , and moreover brought back unto the , saying: ‘All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
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- 17 And they have poured out the money that was found in the house of , and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.’
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And Shaphan the scribe told the , saying: ‘Hilkiah the hath delivered me a book.’ And Shaphan read therein before the .
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- 19 And it came to pass, when the had heard the words of the Law, that he rent his clothes.
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And the commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of , and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s , saying:
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Go ye, inquire of for me, and for them that are left in and in , concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the of , to do according unto all that is written in this book.’
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2 Chronicles 28:6 Jeremiah 21:2 Ezekiel 14:1-11 Jeremiah 42:2 Ezekiel 20:1-7 Leviticus 26:14-46 2 Chronicles 33:11 2 Chronicles 29:8 1 Kings 22:5-7 Deuteronomy 30:17-19 Romans 2:8-12 Romans 4:15 Exodus 18:15 Deuteronomy 32:15-25 Deuteronomy 28:15 Deuteronomy 29:18-28 2 Kings 22:13 2 Kings 17:6-7 1 Samuel 9:9 Deuteronomy 31:16-22 Isaiah 37:2-4 Romans 1:18 -
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So Hilkiah, and they whom the [had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe—now she dwelt in in the second quarter—and they spoke to her to that effect.
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And she said unto them: ‘Thus saith , the of : Tell ye the man that sent you unto me:
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- 24 Thus saith : Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the of ;
- 25 because they have forsaken Me, and have offered unto other Elohims, that they might provoke Me with all the works of their hands; therefore is My wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.
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But unto the of , who sent you to inquire of , thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith , the of : As touching the words which thou hast heard,
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- 27 because thy was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before , when thou heardest His words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before Me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith .
- 28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in , neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof.’ And they brought back unto the .
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Then the sent and gathered together all the elders of and .
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And the went up to the house of , and all the men of and the inhabitants of , and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the that was found in the house of .
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And the stood in his place, and made a before , to walk after , and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his , and with all his , to perform the words of the that were written in this book.
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2 Chronicles 23:16 2 Kings 11:14 2 Kings 23:3 2 Chronicles 6:13 2 Chronicles 29:10 2 Chronicles 15:12 2 Chronicles 31:21 Exodus 24:6-8 Psalm 119:106 Deuteronomy 29:10-15 Deuteronomy 6:5 Ezekiel 46:2 Luke 10:27-29 Psalm 119:111-112 Joshua 24:25 Jeremiah 50:5 Hebrews 8:6-13 Nehemiah 9:38 Nehemiah 10:29 2 Kings 11:4 2 Chronicles 30:16 2 Chronicles 15:15 Deuteronomy 29:1 - 32 And he caused all that were found in and to stand to it. And the inhabitants of did according to the of , the of their fathers.
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And took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of , and made all that were found in to , even to their . All his days they departed not from following , the of their fathers.
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