LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
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LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted Ezra 1:1-4 ESV
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem."
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 35:25-27 ESV
Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the Law of the Lord,and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 35:24 ESV
So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 35:23 ESV
And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded."
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 35:20-22 ESV
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.But he sent envoys to him, saying, "What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you."Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:29-33 ESV
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:22 ESV
So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:23-28 ESV
And she said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: 'Tell the man who sent you to me,Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.'" And they brought back word to the king.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:14-21 ESV
While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the Lord given through Moses.Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, "All that was committed to your servants they are doing.They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the Lord and have given it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen."Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read from it before the king.And when the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes.And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,"Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book."
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:6-7 ESV
And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:5 ESV
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:4 ESV
And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:3 ESV
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:1-2 ESV
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 33:1-9 ESV
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever."And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses."Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 33:14-16 ESV
Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 33:13 ESV
He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 33:12 ESV
And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 33:11 ESV
Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
Aug 11
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 2 Chronicles 33:10 ESV
The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.
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