The Levites made the following report to King Hezekiah: "We have completed the ritual purification of the whole Temple, including the altar for burnt offerings, the table for the sacred bread, and all their equipment.

Then Elijah said to the people, "Come closer to me," and they all gathered around him. He set about repairing the altar of the LORD which had been torn down.

When any of you offer one of your cattle as a fellowship offering, it is to be a bull or a cow without any defects.

and present the following parts of the animal as a food offering to the LORD: all the fat on the internal organs,

The priests shall burn all this on the altar along with the burnt offerings. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to the LORD.

If you offer a sheep,

and present the following parts of the animal as a food offering to the LORD: the fat, the entire fat tail cut off near the backbone, all the fat covering the internal organs,

The officiating priest shall burn all this on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.

you shall put your hand on its head and kill it in front of the Tent. The priests shall throw its blood against all four sides of the altar

the kidneys and the fat on them, and the best part of the liver.

No Israelite may eat any fat or any blood; this is a rule to be kept forever by all Israelites wherever they live.

If you make this offering as a thanksgiving offering to God, you shall present, together with the animal to be sacrificed, an offering of bread made without yeast: either thick loaves made of flour mixed with olive oil or thin cakes brushed with olive oil or cakes made of flour mixed with olive oil.

You shall present one part of each kind of bread as a special contribution to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who takes the blood of the animal and throws it against the altar.

If you bring a fellowship offering as fulfillment of a vow or as your own freewill offering, not all of it has to be eaten on the day it is offered, but any that is left over may be eaten on the following day.

If any of it is eaten on the third day, God will not accept your offering. The offering will not be counted to your credit but will be considered unclean, and whoever eats it will suffer the consequences.

Manasseh led the people of Judah to commit even greater sins than those committed by the nations whom the LORD had driven out of the land as his people advanced.

He commanded the people of Judah to do the will of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his teachings and commands.

God was also at work in Judah and united the people in their determination to obey his will by following the commands of the king and his officials.

I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised."

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you turn back to me, you must strengthen your brothers."