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2 Chronicles 34:27 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD. "
2 Chronicles 34:27
Verse in Context
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25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’”’
26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, you shall tell him this, ‘The LORD, the God of Israel says: “About the words which you have heard,
27 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD.
28 “Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’” They brought back this message to the king.
29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 34:1
"Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:2
"He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left."
2 Chronicles 34:3
"For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images."
2 Chronicles 34:4
"They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them."
2 Chronicles 34:5
"He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:6
"He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins."
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