2 Chronicles 11:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the LORD God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their ancestors.

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  • 2 Chr 15:9 : 9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
  • 2 Chr 30:11 : 11 But some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 30:18-19 : 18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying:“May the LORD, who is good, forgive 19 everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”
  • Job 34:14 : 14 If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!
  • Ps 84:5-7 : 5 How blessed are those who find their strength in you, and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple! 6 As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water. 7 They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.
  • Ps 108:1 : 1 A song, a psalm of David. I am determined, O God! I will sing and praise you with my whole heart.
  • Dan 6:14 : 14 When the king heard this, he was very upset and began thinking about how he might rescue Daniel. Until late afternoon he was struggling to find a way to rescue him.
  • Hos 4:8 : 8 They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!
  • Hag 1:5 : 5 Here then, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘Think carefully about what you are doing.
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,
  • Exod 9:21 : 21 but those who did not take the LORD’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.
  • Deut 12:5-6 : 5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there. 6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
  • Deut 12:11 : 11 Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.
  • Deut 12:13-14 : 13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish, 14 for you may do so only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribal areas– there you may do everything I am commanding you.
  • Deut 32:46 : 46 he said to them,“Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.
  • Josh 22:19 : 19 But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD’s own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.
  • 1 Sam 7:3-4 : 3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel,“If you are really turning to the LORD with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the LORD and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the Israelites removed the Baals and images of Ashtoreth. They served only the LORD.
  • 1 Chr 16:29 : 29 Ascribe to the LORD the splendor he deserves! Bring an offering and enter his presence! Worship the LORD in holy attire!
  • 1 Chr 22:1 : 1 David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”
  • 1 Chr 22:19 : 19 Now seek the LORD your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the LORD God! Then you can bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the LORD.”

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  • 2 Chr 11:13-15
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    13The priests and Levites who lived throughout Israel supported him, no matter where they resided.

    14The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the LORD’s priests.

    15Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.

  • 2 Chr 15:11-12
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    11At that time they sacrificed to the LORD some of the plunder they had brought back, including 700 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep.

    12They solemnly agreed to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with their whole heart and being.

  • 2 Chr 23:2
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    2They traveled throughout Judah and assembled the Levites from all the cities of Judah, as well as the Israelite family leaders.They came to Jerusalem,

  • 2 Chr 29:15
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    15They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the LORD’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the LORD.

  • Ezra 2:68
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    68When they came to the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders offered voluntary offerings for the temple of God in order to rebuild it on its site.

  • Jer 17:26
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    26Then people will come here from the towns in Judah, from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin, from the foothills, from the southern hill country, and from the southern part of Judah. They will come bringing offerings to the temple of the LORD: burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incense along with their thank offerings.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62
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    62Solomon Dedicates the Temple The king and all Israel with him were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.

  • Ezra 1:5
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    5The Exiles Prepare to Return to Jerusalem Then the leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites– all those whose mind God had stirred– got ready to go up in order to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
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    14The priests and Levites consecrated themselves so they could bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 30:11-12
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    11But some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

    12In Judah God moved the people to unite and carry out the edict of the king and the officers in keeping with the LORD’s message.

  • Neh 11:2-3
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    2The people gave their blessing on all the men who volunteered to settle in Jerusalem.

    3These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem.(While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities,

  • 2 Chr 33:16-17
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    16He erected the altar of the LORD and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

    17However, the people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • 2 Chr 7:4
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    4The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
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    9But you banished the LORD’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods!

  • 1 Kgs 12:27
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    27If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem, their loyalty could shift to their former master, King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”

  • 1 Chr 22:19
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    19Now seek the LORD your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the LORD God! Then you can bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the LORD.”

  • Deut 12:5
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    5But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

  • 1 Kgs 12:20
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    20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
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    32At the same time they worshiped the LORD. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 5:2-3
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    2Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders– all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families– in Jerusalem, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the City of David(that is, Zion).

    3All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival in the seventh month.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1
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    1The King Institutes Religious Reform The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 20:4
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    4The people of Judah assembled to ask for the LORD’s help; they came from all the cities of Judah to ask for the LORD’s help.

  • Judg 5:9
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    9My heart went out to Israel’s leaders, to the people who answered the call to war. Praise the LORD!

  • 2 Chr 34:32-33
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    32He made all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree to it. The residents of Jerusalem acted in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.

    33Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged all who were in Israel to worship the LORD their God. Throughout the rest of his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
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    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

  • 2 Chr 30:19
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    19everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”

  • 2 Chr 24:18
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    18They abandoned the temple of the LORD God of their ancestors, and worshiped the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
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    1When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

  • 2 Chr 20:28
    70%

    28They entered Jerusalem to the sound of stringed instruments and trumpets and proceeded to the temple of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 8:1
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    1Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the LORD’s covenant from the City of David(that is, Zion).

  • Hos 11:2
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    2But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites.

  • Deut 18:6
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    6Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the LORD chooses

  • 1 Chr 15:12
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    12He told them:“You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the LORD God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it.

  • 2 Chr 30:25
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    25The celebration included the entire assembly of Judah, the priests, the Levites, the entire assembly of those who came from Israel, the resident foreigners who came from the land of Israel and those who were residents of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 15:3
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    3David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of the LORD up to the place he had prepared for it.

  • 2 Chr 19:4
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    4Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • Ezra 6:21
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    21The Israelites who were returning from the exile ate it, along with all those who had joined them in separating themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to seek the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:3
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    3When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests lifted the ark.

  • 1 Kgs 12:3
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    3They sent for him, and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

  • Ezra 3:1
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    1The Altar is Rebuilt When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites were living in their towns, the people assembled in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 13:2
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    2David said to the whole Israelite assembly,“If you so desire and the LORD our God approves, let’s spread the word to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, so they may join us.