2 Chronicles 29:5   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 29)

and said: "Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the Lord, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary.

2 Chronicles 29:8   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 29)

Therefore, the anger of the Lord has fallen on Judah and Jerusalem; he has made them an object of dread and horror and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

2 Chronicles 29:11   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 29)

My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense."

2 Chronicles 29:31   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 29)

Then Hezekiah said, "You have now dedicated yourselves to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the Lord." So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.

2 Chronicles 30:6   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 30)

At the king's command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read: "People of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 30:7   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 30)

Do not be like your parents and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful to the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror, as you see.

2 Chronicles 30:8   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 30)

Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the Lord. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 30:9   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 30)

If you return to the Lord, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him."

2 Chronicles 31:15   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 31)

Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shekaniah assisted him faithfully in the towns of the priests, distributing to their fellow priests according to their divisions, old and young alike.

2 Chronicles 32:10   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 32)

"This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: On what are you basing your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?

2 Chronicles 32:11   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 32)

When Hezekiah says, 'The Lord our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria,' he is misleading you, to let you die of hunger and thirst.

2 Chronicles 32:12   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 32)

Did not Hezekiah himself remove this god's high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?

2 Chronicles 32:13   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 32)

"Do you not know what I and my predecessors have done to all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those nations ever able to deliver their land from my hand?

2 Chronicles 32:14   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 32)

Who of all the gods of these nations that my predecessors destroyed has been able to save his people from me? How then can your god deliver you from my hand?

2 Chronicles 32:15   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 32)

Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my predecessors. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand!"

2 Chronicles 33:8   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 33)

I will not again make the feet of the Israelites leave the land I assigned to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them concerning all the laws, decrees and regulations given through Moses."

2 Chronicles 34:3   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.

2 Chronicles 34:16   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

Then Shaphan took the book to the king and reported to him: "Your officials are doing everything that has been committed to them.

2 Chronicles 34:23   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

She said to them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me,

2 Chronicles 34:26   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, 'This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard:

2 Chronicles 34:27   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the Lord.

2 Chronicles 34:28   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 34)

Now I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live here.' " So they took her answer back to the king.

2 Chronicles 35:3   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 35)

He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the Lord: "Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel.

2 Chronicles 35:4   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 35)

Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and by his son Solomon.