Biblia Todo Logo
Cross References

- Advertisements -




2 Chronicles 14:4

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

He commanded the people of Judah to follow the Lord, the God their ancestors had worshiped, and to obey his laws and commands.

See the chapter Copy

21 Cross References  

The Lord says this to the nation of Israel: “Come looking for me and live.

I try with all my heart to serve you. Help me obey your commands.

I gave commands for the rooms to be made pure and clean. Then I put the Temple dishes and things, the grain offerings, and the incense back into the rooms.

Then he set up the Lord’s altar and offered fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it. He gave a command for all the people of Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.

Also, in Judah God’s power united the people so that they would obey the king and his officials concerning the word of the Lord.

King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to give praise to the Lord. They sang songs that David and Asaph the seer had written. They praised God and became happy. They all bowed and worshiped God.

Then Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, singing to the Lord also began. The trumpets were blown, and the instruments of David king of Israel were played.

They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven young male goats. These animals were for a sin offering for the kingdom of Judah, for the Holy Place to make it clean, and for the people of Judah. King Hezekiah commanded the priests who were descendants of Aaron to offer these animals on the Lord’s altar.

When the Levites left Israel, the people in all the tribes of Israel who were faithful to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

I told Eli I would punish his family forever. I will do this because Eli knew his sons were saying and doing bad things against God. But he failed to control them.

“But maybe you don’t want to serve the Lord. You must choose for yourselves today. Today you must decide who you will serve. Will you serve the gods that your ancestors worshiped when they lived on the other side of the Euphrates River? Or will you serve the gods of the Amorites who lived in this land? You must choose for yourselves. But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”

I have made a special agreement with him. I did this so that he would command his children and his descendants to live the way the Lord wants them to. I did this so that they would live right and be fair. Then I, the Lord, can give him what I promised.”

He took away the altars of the foreigners and the high places. He also smashed the memorial stones and cut down the Asherah poles.

He also removed all the high places and incense altars from all the towns in Judah. So the kingdom had peace when Asa was king.




Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements