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2 Chronicles 30:19–22

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That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.
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From verse 19

  1. 2 Chronicles 19:3Rank 1 from verse 19
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    3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

  2. Proverbs 23:26Rank 2 from verse 19
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    26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

  3. Job 11:13Rank 3 from verse 19
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    13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

  4. Psalms 10:17Rank 4 from verse 19
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    17Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

  5. 1 Chronicles 29:18Rank 5 from verse 19
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    18O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

  6. 2 Chronicles 20:33Rank 6 from verse 19
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    33Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  7. Ezra 7:10Rank 7 from verse 19
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    10For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

  8. 1 Samuel 7:3Rank 8 from verse 19
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    3¶ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

  9. Leviticus 12:4Rank 9 from verse 19
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    4And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

  10. Leviticus 15:31–33Rank 10 from verse 19
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    31Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

    32This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;

    33And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

  11. Leviticus 21:17–23Rank 11 from verse 19
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    17Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

    18For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

    19Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

    20Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

    21No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

    22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

    23Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

  12. Leviticus 22:3–6Rank 12 from verse 19
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    3Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.

    4What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

    5Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

    6The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

  13. Numbers 19:13–20Rank 13 from verse 19
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    13Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

    14This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

    15And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

    16And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

    17And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

    18And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

    19And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

    20But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

  14. Numbers 9:6Rank 14 from verse 19
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    6¶ And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

From verse 20

  1. Exodus 15:26Rank 1 from verse 20
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    26And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

  2. James 5:15–16Rank 2 from verse 20
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    15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

    16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

  3. Psalms 103:3Rank 3 from verse 20
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    3Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

From verse 21

  1. Exodus 12:15Rank 1 from verse 21
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    15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

  2. Exodus 13:6Rank 2 from verse 21
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    6Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

  3. 1 Corinthians 5:7–8Rank 3 from verse 21
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    7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

    8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

  4. 2 Chronicles 20:21Rank 4 from verse 21
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    21And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever.

  5. 2 Chronicles 29:25–27Rank 5 from verse 21
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    25And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.

    26And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

    27And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.

  6. 2 Chronicles 30:26Rank 6 from verse 21
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    26So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

  7. 2 Chronicles 7:10Rank 7 from verse 21
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    10And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the Lord had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

  8. Acts 2:46Rank 8 from verse 21
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    46And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

  9. Deuteronomy 12:12Rank 9 from verse 21
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    12And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.

  10. Deuteronomy 12:7Rank 10 from verse 21
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    7And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

  11. Deuteronomy 16:14Rank 11 from verse 21
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    14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

  12. Leviticus 23:6Rank 12 from verse 21
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    6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

  13. Luke 22:1Rank 13 from verse 21
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    1NOW the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

  14. Luke 22:7Rank 14 from verse 21
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    7¶ Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

  15. Nehemiah 8:10Rank 15 from verse 21
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    10Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

  16. Philippians 4:4Rank 16 from verse 21
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    4Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

  17. Psalms 150:3–5Rank 17 from verse 21
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    3Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

    4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

    5Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

From verse 22

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:6Rank 1 from verse 22
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    6And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,

  2. Nehemiah 9:3Rank 2 from verse 22
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    3And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God.

  3. Ezra 10:11Rank 3 from verse 22
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    11Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

  4. Isaiah 40:1–2Rank 4 from verse 22
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    1COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

    2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

  5. 2 Chronicles 15:3Rank 5 from verse 22
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    3Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

  6. 2 Chronicles 17:9Rank 6 from verse 22
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    9And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

  7. 2 Chronicles 35:3Rank 7 from verse 22
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    3And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the Lord, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the Lord your God, and his people Israel,

  8. 2 Corinthians 4:6Rank 8 from verse 22
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    6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  9. 2 Timothy 4:2Rank 9 from verse 22
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    2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

  10. Deuteronomy 26:3–11Rank 10 from verse 22
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    3And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us.

    4And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.

    5And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

    6And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

    7And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

    8And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

    9And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

    10And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God:

    11And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

  11. Deuteronomy 33:10Rank 11 from verse 22
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    10They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

  12. Ezra 7:10Rank 12 from verse 22
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    10For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

  13. Ezra 7:25Rank 13 from verse 22
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    25And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

  14. Hosea 2:14Rank 14 from verse 22
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    14¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

  15. John 17:3Rank 15 from verse 22
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    3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

  16. Nehemiah 8:18Rank 16 from verse 22
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    18Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.

  17. Nehemiah 8:7–8Rank 17 from verse 22
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    7Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

    8So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

  18. Philippians 3:8Rank 18 from verse 22
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    8Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

  19. Proverbs 2:6–7Rank 19 from verse 22
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    6For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

    7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

  20. Proverbs 8:6Rank 20 from verse 22
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    6Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

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2 Chronicles 30:19

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

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cleansed

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Made clean or pure; freed from filth, defilement, guilt, disease, or ceremonial uncleanness.

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2 Chronicles 30:20

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hearkened

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1. Listened attentively or gave heed. 2. Gave regard, consented, or acted in response.

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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2 Chronicles 30:21

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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present

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Sense 1: Being in a place, at hand, or before another; now existing or current. Sense 2: A gift or offering brought or given to another. Sense 3: To bring, set, offer, or exhibit before another; to cause to appear or stand before; to lay before or make known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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feast

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Sense 1: A large or special meal, often connected with an appointed celebration. Sense 2: As a verb, to eat or entertain at such a meal.

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gladness

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Joy, delight, or rejoicing; the state or expression of being glad.

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Levites

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Members of the tribe of Levi, especially those appointed to service connected with the tabernacle or temple.

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priests

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Persons set apart to religious service, sanctuary duty, sacrifice, intercession, teaching, or representation before a deity.

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day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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singing

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of sing, meaning to produce musical sounds with the voice; to celebrate, praise, or tell in song.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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instruments

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Sense 1: Tools or implements by which work is done or effects are produced. Sense 2: Devices made to produce music.

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2 Chronicles 30:22

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spake

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The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.

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Levites

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Members of the tribe of Levi, especially those appointed to service connected with the tabernacle or temple.

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good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

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eat

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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.

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throughout

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Through every part, place, member, or extent of; all over; during or from beginning to end of the whole stated area, group, or period.

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feast

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Sense 1: A large or special meal, often connected with an appointed celebration. Sense 2: As a verb, to eat or entertain at such a meal.

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offering

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Sense 1: A gift, contribution, sacrifice, or other thing presented to God or another. Sense 2: The act of presenting, bringing, or giving something; also the present-participial form of offer.

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COMBINED MEANING

peace

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Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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confession

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An acknowledgment or declaration; especially an open acknowledgment of truth, sin, or faith.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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30:13¶ And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

30:14And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

30:15Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

30:16And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.

30:17For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.

30:18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one

30:19That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

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30:20And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

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30:21And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.

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30:22And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

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30:23And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

30:24For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

30:25And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

30:26So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

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