2 Chronicles 24:6
Hebrew Text— 2 Chronicles 24:6The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”
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Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”
For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Do all things without complaining and arguing,
After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.
When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,
but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting.
On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.
Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony.
But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:
The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned.
They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.”
the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”
Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.
He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.
Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.”
Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’ ”
because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.
and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;
A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”