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 <div class="p">28This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died:</div><div class="q1">29Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,</div><div class="q2">that the rod that struck you is broken;</div><div class="q1">from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,</div><div class="q2">its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.</div><div class="q1">30The poorest of the poor will find pasture,</div><div class="q2">and the needy will lie down in safety.</div><div class="q1">But your root I will destroy by famine;</div><div class="q2">it will slay your survivors.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">31Wail, you gate! Howl, you city!</div><div class="q2">Melt away, all you Philistines!</div><div class="q1">A cloud of smoke comes from the north,</div><div class="q2">and there is not a straggler in its ranks.</div><div class="q1">32What answer shall be given</div><div class="q2">to the envoys of that nation?</div><div class="q1">&#8220;The Lord has established Zion,</div><div class="q2">and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="p">1A prophecy concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.</div><div class="s1">The Lord&#8217;s Anger Against Nineveh</div><div class="q1">2The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;</div><div class="q2">the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath.</div><div class="q1">The Lord takes vengeance on his foes</div><div class="q2">and vents his wrath against his enemies.</div><div class="q1">3The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;</div><div class="q2">the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.</div><div class="q1">His way is in the whirlwind and the storm,</div><div class="q2">and clouds are the dust of his feet.</div><div class="q1">4He rebukes the sea and dries it up;</div><div class="q2">he makes all the rivers run dry.</div><div class="q1">Bashan and Carmel wither</div><div class="q2">and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.</div><div class="q1">5The mountains quake before him</div><div class="q2">and the hills melt away.</div><div class="q1">The earth trembles at his presence,</div><div class="q2">the world and all who live in it.</div><div class="q1">6Who can withstand his indignation?</div><div class="q2">Who can endure his fierce anger?</div><div class="q1">His wrath is poured out like fire;</div><div class="q2">the rocks are shattered before him.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">7The Lord is good,</div><div class="q2">a refuge in times of trouble.</div><div class="q1">He cares for those who trust in him,</div><div class="q2">8but with an overwhelming flood</div><div class="q1">he will make an end of Nineveh;</div><div class="q2">he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">9Whatever they plot against the Lord</div><div class="q2">he will bring#1:9 Or What do you foes plot against the Lord? / He will bring it to an end;</div><div class="q2">trouble will not come a second time.</div><div class="q1">10They will be entangled among thorns</div><div class="q2">and drunk from their wine;</div><div class="q2">they will be consumed like dry stubble.#1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.</div><div class="q1">11From you, Nineveh, has one come forth</div><div class="q2">who plots evil against the Lord</div><div class="q2">and devises wicked plans.</div><div class="p">12This is what the Lord says:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;Although they have allies and are numerous,</div><div class="q2">they will be destroyed and pass away.</div><div class="q1">Although I have afflicted you, Judah,</div><div class="q2">I will afflict you no more.</div><div class="q1">13Now I will break their yoke from your neck</div><div class="q2">and tear your shackles away.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">14The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh:</div><div class="q2">&#8220;You will have no descendants to bear your name.</div><div class="q1">I will destroy the images and idols</div><div class="q2">that are in the temple of your gods.</div><div class="q1">I will prepare your grave,</div><div class="q2">for you are vile.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"></div>
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 <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1">Hezekiah Purifies the Temple</div><div class="p">1Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother&#8217;s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. 2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done.</div><div class="p">3In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the Lord and repaired them. 4He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side 5and said: &#8220;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. 6Our parents were unfaithful; they did evil in the eyes of the Lord our God and forsook him. They turned their faces away from the Lord&#8217;s dwelling place and turned their backs on him. 7They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel. 8Therefore, 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. 9This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity. 10Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us. 11My 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.&#8221;</div><div class="p">12Then these Levites set to work:</div><div class="li1">from the Kohathites,</div><div class="li2">Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;</div><div class="li1">from the Merarites,</div><div class="li2">Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;</div><div class="li1">from the Gershonites,</div><div class="li2">Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;</div><div class="li1">13from the descendants of Elizaphan,</div><div class="li2">Shimri and Jeiel;</div><div class="li1">from the descendants of Asaph,</div><div class="li2">Zechariah and Mattaniah;</div><div class="li1">14from the descendants of Heman,</div><div class="li2">Jehiel and Shimei;</div><div class="li1">from the descendants of Jeduthun,</div><div class="li2">Shemaiah and Uzziel.</div><div class="p">15When they had assembled their fellow Levites and consecrated themselves, they went in to purify the temple of the Lord, as the king had ordered, following the word of the Lord. 16The priests went into the sanctuary of the Lord to purify it. They brought out to the courtyard of the Lord&#8217;s temple everything unclean that they found in the temple of the Lord. The Levites took it and carried it out to the Kidron Valley. 17They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the Lord. For eight more days they consecrated the temple of the Lord itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.</div><div class="p">18Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported: &#8220;We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table for setting out the consecrated bread, with all its articles. 19We have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz removed in his unfaithfulness while he was king. They are now in front of the Lord&#8217;s altar.&#8221;</div><div class="p">20Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials together and went up to the temple of the Lord. 21They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats as a sin offering#29:21 Or purification offering; also in verses 23 and 24 for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. The king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer these on the altar of the Lord. 22So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it against the altar; next they slaughtered the rams and splashed their blood against the altar; then they slaughtered the lambs and splashed their blood against the altar. 23The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them. 24The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.</div><div class="p">25He stationed the Levites in the temple of the Lord with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king&#8217;s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets. 26So the Levites stood ready with David&#8217;s instruments, and the priests with their trumpets.</div><div class="p">27Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. As the offering began, singing to the Lord began also, accompanied by trumpets and the instruments of David king of Israel. 28The whole assembly bowed in worship, while the musicians played and the trumpets sounded. All this continued until the sacrifice of the burnt offering was completed.</div><div class="p">29When the offerings were finished, the king and everyone present with him knelt down and worshiped. 30King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.</div><div class="p">31Then Hezekiah said, &#8220;You have now dedicated yourselves to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the Lord.&#8221; So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.</div><div class="p">32The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams and two hundred male lambs&#8212;all of them for burnt offerings to the Lord. 33The animals consecrated as sacrifices amounted to six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep and goats. 34The priests, however, were too few to skin all the burnt offerings; so their relatives the Levites helped them until the task was finished and until other priests had been consecrated, for the Levites had been more conscientious in consecrating themselves than the priests had been. 35There were burnt offerings in abundance, together with the fat of the fellowship offerings and the drink offerings that accompanied the burnt offerings.</div><div class="p">So the service of the temple of the Lord was reestablished. 36Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced at what God had brought about for his people, because it was done so quickly.</div>
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It had not been celebrated in large numbers according to what was written.</div><div class="p">6At the king&#8217;s command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read:</div><div class="pm">&#8220;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. 7Do 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. 8Do 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. 9If 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.&#8221;</div><div class="p">10The couriers went from town to town in Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but people scorned and ridiculed them. 11Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and went to Jerusalem. 12Also in Judah the hand of God was on the people to give them unity of mind to carry out what the king and his officials had ordered, following the word of the Lord.</div><div class="p">13A very large crowd of people assembled in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month. 14They removed the altars in Jerusalem and cleared away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.</div><div class="p">15They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the temple of the Lord. 16Then they took up their regular positions as prescribed in the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests splashed against the altar the blood handed to them by the Levites. 17Since many in the crowd had not consecrated themselves, the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all those who were not ceremonially clean and could not consecrate their lambs#30:17 Or consecrate themselves to the Lord. 18Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, &#8220;May the Lord, who is good, pardon everyone 19who sets their heart on seeking God&#8212;the Lord, the God of their ancestors&#8212;even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.&#8221; 20And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.</div><div class="p">21The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great rejoicing, while the Levites and priests praised the Lord every day with resounding instruments dedicated to the Lord.#30:21 Or priests sang to the Lord every day, accompanied by the Lord&#8217;s instruments of praise</div><div class="p">22Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites, who showed good understanding of the service of the Lord. For the seven days they ate their assigned portion and offered fellowship offerings and praised#30:22 Or and confessed their sins to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.</div><div class="p">23The whole assembly then agreed to celebrate the festival seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully. 24Hezekiah king of Judah provided a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep and goats for the assembly, and the officials provided them with a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep and goats. A great number of priests consecrated themselves. 25The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites and all who had assembled from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and also those who resided in Judah. 26There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem. 27The priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them, for their prayer reached heaven, his holy dwelling place.</div>
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