²² And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites ^(A)who taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and ^(B)making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

³ And they stood up in their place and ^(A)read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for one-fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.

⁶ Then he set military captains over the people, gathered them together to him in the open square of the city gate, and ^(A)gave them encouragement, saying,

God’s People Are Comforted^(A)

¹¹ Now therefore, ^(A)make confession to the Lord God of your fathers, and do His will; ^(B)separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives.”

² Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. ^(A)Convince, ^(B)rebuke, ^(C)exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

⁸ Yet indeed I also count all things loss ^(A)for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

⁶ For it is the God ^(A)who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has ^(B)shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

³ And ^(A)this is eternal life, that they may know You, ^(B)the only true God, and Jesus Christ ^(C)whom You have sent.

God’s Mercy on His People