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Hezekiah recalls desolation and families carried away into captivity.
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2 Chronicles 29:8-9

The Cost of Unfaithfulness

Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple and Restores Worship · 2 Chronicles 29

Story guide: Hezekiah recalls desolation and families carried away into captivity.

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8So the wrath of Yahweh came upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he made them a horror, a desolation, and an object of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

9And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity because of this.

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