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Ärende: Bible Reading for September 9
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bob.hoffman@fmlynet.org>

CHAPTER 30
2 Chronicles 30:1
1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim
and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to
keep  the passover  unto the LORD  God  of Israel. 2 Chronicles 30:2
2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in
Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. 2 Chronicles 30:3
3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not
sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves
together to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:4
4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. 2 Chronicles 30:5
5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from
Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD
God of Israel at Jerusalem:  for they had not done  it of a long time in such
sort as it was written. 2 Chronicles 30:6
6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout
all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye
children of Israel,  turn again  unto the LORD  God  of Abraham,  Isaac,  and
Israel,  and he will return  to the remnant  of you, that are escaped  out of
the hand  of the kings  of Assyria. 2 Chronicles 30:7
7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed
against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to
desolation, as ye see.
2 Chronicles 30:8
8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto
the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and
serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness  of his wrath  may turn away  from
you.
2 Chronicles 30:9
9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall
find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come
again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful,  and will
not turn away  his face  from you, if ye return  unto him. 2 Chronicles 30:10
10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and
Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. 2
Chronicles 30:11
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves,
and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:12
12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the
commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD. 2
Chronicles 30:13
13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened
bread in the second month, a very great congregation. 2 Chronicles 30:14
14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the
altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron. 2
Chronicles 30:15
15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and
the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and
brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 30:16
16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of
Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of
the hand of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 30:17
17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore
the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that
was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD. 2 Chronicles 30:18
18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar,
and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover
otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah  prayed  for them, saying,  The
good  LORD  pardon  every one 2 Chronicles 30:19
19 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he
be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. 2 Chronicles
30:20
20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. 2 Chronicles
30:21
21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of
unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the
priests  praised  the LORD  day  by day,  singing with loud  instruments unto
the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:22
22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good
knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days,
offering  peace  offerings,  and making confession  to the LORD  God  of their
fathers.
2 Chronicles 30:23
23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept
other seven days with gladness. 2 Chronicles 30:24
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks
and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand 
bullocks  and ten  thousand  sheep:  and a great number  of priests  sanctified
 themselves.
2 Chronicles 30:25
25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all
the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of
the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah,  rejoiced. 2 Chronicles 30:26
26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son
of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 30:27
27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice
was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto
heaven.
CHAPTER 31
2 Chronicles 31:1
1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the
cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and
threw down the high places  and the altars  out of all Judah and Benjamin,  in
Ephraim  also and Manasseh,  until they had utterly destroyed  them all. Then
all the children  of Israel  returned,  every man to his possession,  into
their own cities. 2 Chronicles 31:2
2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their
courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt
offerings and for peace offerings,  to minister,  and to give thanks,  and to
praise  in the gates  of the tents  of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 31:3
3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt
offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt
offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as
it is written  in the law  of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 31:4
4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion
of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the
LORD.
2 Chronicles 31:5
5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in
abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the
increase of the field;  and the tithe  of all things brought  they in
abundantly.
2 Chronicles 31:6
6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of
Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy
things which were consecrated  unto the LORD  their God,  and laid them by
heaps.
2 Chronicles 31:7
7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and
finished them in the seventh month. 2 Chronicles 31:8
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the
LORD, and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 31:9
9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the
heaps.
2 Chronicles 31:10
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said,
Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we
have had enough  to eat,  and have left  plenty:  for the LORD hath blessed 
his people;  and that which is left  is this great store. 2 Chronicles 31:11
11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and
they prepared them,
2 Chronicles 31:12
12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things
faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother
was the next.
2 Chronicles 31:13
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad,
and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the
hand of Cononiah  and Shimei  his brother,  at the commandment  of Hezekiah 
the king,  and Azariah  the ruler  of the house  of God. 2 Chronicles 31:14
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over
the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the
most holy things.
2 Chronicles 31:15
15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and
Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their
brethren by courses,  as well to the great  as to the small: 2 Chronicles 31:16
16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto
every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their
service in their charges  according to their courses; 2 Chronicles 31:17
17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the
Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
2 Chronicles 31:18
18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons,
and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they
sanctified themselves in holiness: 2 Chronicles 31:19
19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the
suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by
name, to give portions to all the males  among the priests,  and to all that
were reckoned by genealogies  among the Levites. 2 Chronicles 31:20
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good
and right and truth before the LORD his God. 2 Chronicles 31:21
21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in
the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his
heart, and prospered.
CHAPTER 32
2 Chronicles 32:1
1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of
Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities,
and thought  to win  them for himself. 2 Chronicles 32:2
2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to
fight against Jerusalem,
2 Chronicles 32:3
3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the
fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. 2 Chronicles 32:4
4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains,
and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the
kings of Assyria  come,  and find  much  water? 2 Chronicles 32:5
5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and
raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the
city of David,  and made  darts  and shields  in abundance. 2 Chronicles 32:6
6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him
in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
2 Chronicles 32:7
7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria,
nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with
him:
2 Chronicles 32:8
8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and
to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of
Hezekiah king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32:9
9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem,
(but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto
Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah  that were at Jerusalem, saying,
2 Chronicles 32:10
10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide
in the siege in Jerusalem?
2 Chronicles 32:11
11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and
by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the
king of Assyria?
2 Chronicles 32:12
12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and
commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and
burn incense  upon it?
2 Chronicles 32:13
13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other
lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver
their lands out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles 32:14
14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly
destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should
be able to deliver you out of mine hand? 2 Chronicles 32:15
15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner,
neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to
deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand  of my fathers:  how
much less shall your God  deliver  you out of mine hand? 2 Chronicles 32:16
16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his
servant Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:17
17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak
against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not
delivered their people  out of mine hand,  so shall not the God  of Hezekiah
deliver  his people  out of mine hand. 2 Chronicles 32:18
18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of
Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that
they might take the city.
2 Chronicles 32:19
19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the
people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man. 2 Chronicles
32:20
20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of
Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
2 Chronicles 32:21
21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and
the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned
with shame  of face  to his own land.  And when he was come  into the house  of
his god,  they that came forth  of his own bowels  slew  him there with the
sword.
2 Chronicles 32:22
22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand
of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided
them on every side.
2 Chronicles 32:23
23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah
king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from
thenceforth.
2 Chronicles 32:24
24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and
he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. 2 Chronicles 32:25
25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for
his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and
Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26
26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon
them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 32:27
27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself
treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices,
and for shields,  and for all manner of pleasant  jewels; 2 Chronicles 32:28
28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for
all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. 2 Chronicles 32:29
29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in
abundance: for God had given him substance very much. 2 Chronicles 32:30
30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought
it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered
in all his works.
2 Chronicles 32:31
31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who
sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him,
to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart. 2 Chronicles 32:32
32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are
written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book
of the kings of Judah  and Israel. 2 Chronicles 32:33
33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of
the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem did him honour  at his death.  And Manasseh  his son  reigned  in his
stead.

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