2Chronicles 29
29HEZEKIAH BEGAN to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.H3169H4427H2568H6242H8141H1121H4427H8672H6242H8141H3389H517H8034H29H1323H21482And he did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father [forefather] had done.H6213H3477H5869H3068H1732H1H62133In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord [which his father had closed] and repaired them.H7223H8141H4427H7223H2320H6605H1817H1004H3068H23884He brought together the priests and Levites in the square on the eastH935H3548H3881H622H4217H73395And said to them, Levites, hear me! Now sanctify (purify and make free from sin) yourselves and the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.H559H8085H3881H6942H6942H1004H3068H430H1H3318H5079H69446For our fathers have trespassed and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and they have forsaken Him and have turned away their faces from the dwelling place of the Lord and have turned their backs.H1H4603H6213H7451H5869H3068H430H5800H5437H6440H4908H3068H5414H62037Also they have closed the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and they have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the place holy to the God of Israel.H5462H1817H197H3518H5216H6999H7004H5927H5930H6944H430H34788Therefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to be a terror {and} a cause of trembling, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your own eyes.H7110H3068H3063H3389H5414H2189H2113H8047H8322H7200H58699For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity for this.H1H5307H2719H1121H1323H802H762810Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, that His fierce anger may turn away from us.H3824H3772H1285H3068H430H3478H2740H639H772511My sons, do not now be negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in His presence, to serve Him, to be His ministers, and to burn incense to Him.H1121H7952H3068H977H5975H6440H8334H8334H699912Then the Levites arose: Mahath son of Amasai, Joel son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; of the sons of Merari: Kish son of Abdi, Azariah son of Jehallelel; of the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;H3881H6965H4287H1121H6022H3100H1121H5838H1121H6956H1121H4847H7027H1121H5660H5838H1121H3094H1649H3098H1121H2155H5731H1121H309813Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel; of the sons of Asaph: Zechariah, and Mattaniah;H1121H469H8113H3273H1121H623H2148H498314Of the sons of Heman: Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel.H1121H1968H3171H8096H1121H3038H8098H581615They gathered their brethren and sanctified themselves and went in, as the king had commanded by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.H622H251H6942H935H4687H4428H1697H3068H2891H1004H306816The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the Lord's house. And the Levites carried it out to the brook Kidron.H3548H935H6441H1004H3068H2891H3318H2932H4672H1964H3068H2691H1004H3068H3881H6901H3318H2351H5158H693917They began on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day they came to the porch of the Lord. Then for eight days they sanctified the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day they finished.H2490H259H7223H2320H6942H8083H3117H2320H935H197H3068H6942H1004H3068H8083H3117H8337H6240H7223H2320H361518Then they went to King Hezekiah and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the showbread table with all its utensils.H935H6441H2396H4428H559H2891H1004H3068H4196H5930H3627H4635H7979H362719Moreover, all the utensils which King Ahaz in his reign cast away when he was transgressing [faithless] we have made ready and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.H3627H4428H271H4438H2186H4604H3559H6942H6440H4196H306820Then King Hezekiah rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of the Lord.H3169H4428H7925H622H8269H5892H5927H1004H306821They brought seven each of bulls, rams, lambs, and he-goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. He commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the Lord's altar.H935H7651H6499H7651H352H7651H3532H7651H6842H5795H2403H4467H4720H3063H559H3548H1121H175H5927H4196H306822So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood and dashed it against the altar. Likewise, when they had killed the rams and then the lambs, they dashed the blood against the altar.H7819H1241H3548H6901H1818H2236H4196H7819H352H2236H1818H4196H7819H3532H2236H1818H419623Then the he-goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.H5066H8163H2403H6440H4428H6951H5564H302724The priests killed them and made a sin offering with their blood upon the altar to make atonement for all Israel, for the king commanded that the burnt offering and sin offering be made for all Israel.H3548H7819H2398H1818H4196H3722H3478H4428H559H5930H2403H347825Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord's house with cymbals, harps, and lyres, as David [his forefather] and Gad the king's seer and Nathan the prophet had commanded; for the commandment was from the Lord through His prophets.H5975H3881H1004H3068H4700H5035H3658H4687H1732H1410H4428H2374H5416H5030H4687H3027H3068H3027H503026The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.H3881H5975H3627H1732H3548H268927Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets and with the instruments ordained by King David of Israel.H2396H559H5927H5930H4196H6256H5930H2490H7892H3068H2490H2689H3627H3027H1732H4428H347828And all the congregation worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.H6951H7812H7892H7891H2689H2690H2690H5930H361529When they had stopped offering, the king and all present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.H3615H5927H4428H4672H3766H781230Also King Hezekiah and the princes ordered the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness and bowed themselves and worshiped.H3169H4428H8269H559H3881H1984H3068H1697H1732H623H2374H1984H8057H6915H781231Then Hezekiah said, Now you have consecrated yourselves to the Lord; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And the assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.H3169H6030H559H4390H3027H3068H5066H935H2077H8426H1004H3068H6951H935H2077H8426H5081H3820H593032And the number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.H4557H5930H6951H935H7657H1241H3967H352H3967H3532H5930H306833And the consecrated things were 600 oxen and 3,000 sheep.H6944H8337H3967H1241H7969H505H662934But the priests were too few and could not skin all the burnt offerings. So until the other priests had sanctified themselves, their Levite kinsmen helped them until the work was done, for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in sanctifying themselves.H3548H4592H3201H6584H5930H251H3881H2388H4399H3615H3548H6942H3881H3477H3824H6942H354835Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the Lord's house was set in order.H5930H7230H2459H8002H5262H5930H5656H1004H3068H355936Thus Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of what God had prepared for the people, for it was done suddenly.H3169H8055H5971H430H3559H5971H1697H6597
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