King Hezekiah and the people were happy, because God had helped them to do all this so quickly.

LORD God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, keep such devotion forever strong in your people's hearts and keep them always faithful to you.

Give my son Solomon a wholehearted desire to obey everything that you command and to build the Temple for which I have made these preparations."

Ezra said, "Praise the LORD, the God of our ancestors! He has made the emperor willing to honor in this way the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.

On the day you fight your enemies, your people will volunteer. Like the dew of early morning your young men will come to you on the sacred hills.

I will give them the desire to know that I am the LORD. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me with all their heart.

I will give them a single purpose in life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.

I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.

because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.

We must thank God at all times for you, friends, you whom the Lord loves. For God chose you as the first to be saved by the Spirit's power to make you his holy people and by your faith in the truth.

God called you to this through the Good News we preached to you; he called you to possess your share of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not add anything to what I command you, and do not take anything away. Obey the commands of the LORD your God that I have given you.

"I have taught you all the laws, as the LORD my God told me to do. Obey them in the land that you are about to invade and occupy.

Obey them faithfully, and this will show the people of other nations how wise you are. When they hear of all these laws, they will say, 'What wisdom and understanding this great nation has!'

For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

The king followed the instructions that the LORD had given to King David through Gad, the king's prophet, and through the prophet Nathan; he stationed Levites in the Temple, with harps and cymbals,

But Peter and John answered them, "You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight---to obey you or to obey God.