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2 Chronicles 29:9

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For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 29:7

    Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

  2. 2 Chronicles 29:8

    Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

  3. 2 Chronicles 29:10

    Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

  4. 2 Chronicles 29:11

    My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.

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