Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant's prayer for this place.

Anyone who would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, male or female.

The Lord sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. They warned the people, but they would not pay attention.

They made disbursements to all the males three years old and up who were listed in the genealogical records -- to all who would enter the Lord's temple to serve on a daily basis and fulfill their duties as assigned to their divisions.

In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. He prayed to the Lord, who answered him and gave him a sign confirming that he would be healed.