2CH-29:1 Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty
years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name [was] Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2CH-29:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
2CH-29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,
opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
2CH-29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and
gathered them together into the east street,
2CH-29:5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now
yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your
fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place].
2CH-29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which
was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him,
and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the
LORD, and turned [their] backs.
2CH-29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put
out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt
offerings in the holy [place] unto the God of Israel.
2CH-29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and
Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to
astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2CH-29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our
sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.
2CH-29:10 Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the
LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2CH-29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath
chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should
minister unto him, and burn incense.
2CH-29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and
Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of
the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of
Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and
Eden the son of Joah:
2CH-29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and
of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
2CH-29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of
the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
2CH-29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified
themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king,
by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
2CH-29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house
of the LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all the
uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the
court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to
carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron.
2CH-29:17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month
to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they
made an end.
2CH-29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We
have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt
offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table,
with all the vessels thereof.
2CH-29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign
did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and
sanctified, and, behold, they [are] before the altar of the LORD.
2CH-29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the
rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
2CH-29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and
seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the
kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded
the priests the sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the altar of
the LORD.
2CH-29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received
the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they
had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar:
they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon
the altar.
2CH-29:23 And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin
offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid
their hands upon them:
2CH-29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made
reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an
atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded [that] the
burnt offering and the sin offering [should be made] for all
Israel.
2CH-29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with
cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the
commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the
prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his
prophets.
2CH-29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,
and the priests with the trumpets.
2CH-29:27 And Hezekiah 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 David king of Israel.
2CH-29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers
sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued]
until the burnt offering was finished.
2CH-29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king
and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and
worshipped.
2CH-29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded
the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David,
and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and
they bowed their heads and worshipped.
2CH-29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have
consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring
sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And
the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and
as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
2CH-29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the
congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an
hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a
burnt offering to the LORD.
2CH-29:33 And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen and
three thousand sheep.
2CH-29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not
flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the
Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the
[other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites
[were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the
priests.
2CH-29:35 And also 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 house of the LORD
was set in order.
2CH-29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God
had prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.
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