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He directed his heart toward the Lord; at a time of lawlessness, he made devotion to God stronger.
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Except for David, Hezekiah, and Josiah, all of them struck a bad chord, because they abandoned the Law of the Most High. The kings of Judah came to an end.
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They gave their power to others and their glory to a foreign nation,
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which set fire to Jerusalem, the chosen city, and its sanctuary and made its streets desolate, as Jeremiah said.
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They mistreated him, even though he had been set apart from the womb to be a prophet to uproot, ruin, destroy, and likewise to build and plant.