2 Chronicles 31

July 4, 2022

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2 Chronicles 31 (NIV)

1 When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.
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2 Hezekiah assigned the priests and Levites to divisions—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing praises at the gates of the Lord’s dwelling............Continue Reading

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  2. Wow, talk about everything and everyone working on all cylinders. The rejoicing and conviction of the passover carries over to just what it should: greater faithfulness to God and destroying those things that honor other gods. It also leads to joyful, generous giving to the work of God that then needs a team of people to manage. Hezekiah and others are on top of it all and make sure the generous giving ends up where it is supposed to go. When things are working as God wants and the people are obedient to Him, they end up blessed, they then give generously and then the priests and Levites who serve the Lord and perform the work of the temple are taken care of the way God planned it. The Levites were the tribe dedicated to God and the rest of Israel was to take care of them because they were doing a service for all of them. And when things fire on all cylinders, everyone makes out just fine…from the smallest to the biggest….

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  3. Hezekiah and the people all continue to set things right, destroying the altars and appointing the priests in their respective places and assignments. The people were generous, to overflowing, and the offerings are distributed among the Levites for their service to the Lord. There is no rich or poor, those who live nearby or those who are out in the fields, no division or discrimination.

    “Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. 21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart. So he prospered.”
    There’s the point about the “heart” again.

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  4. I love those last couple of verses talking about how Hezekiah did what was good, right, and true before the Lord. It would be nice to know that when someone reflects back on our life one day that those would be words they would use about us. Knowing that we followed the plan God had for us and that we considered His glory in everything we did!

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