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2 Chronicles 30 18-2 Chronicles 30 20
For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, and Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying,“ May the good Lord pardoneveryone who prepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though not according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
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Matthew 12:20
A bent reed He will not break off, And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish, Until He leads justice to victory.
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Zechariah 7:8-9
Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,“ This is what the Lord of armies has said:‘ Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;
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Matthew 12:3-7
But He said to them,“ Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions—how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent?But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here.But if you had known what this means:‘ I desire compassion, rather than sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
