20 And when Moses heard that, he approved.

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20 a bruised reed he will not break,
    and a smoldering wick he will not quench,
until he brings justice to victory;

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He said to them, (A)“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate (B)the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read (C)in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? I tell you, (D)something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known (E)what this means, (F)‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

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And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

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18 For a majority of the people, (A)many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise (B)than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone 19 (C)who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness.”[a] 20 And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 30:19 Hebrew not according to the cleanness of holiness

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