The Second Book of Chronicles (WEB)
29: 1Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine
years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 29:2He did that
which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. 29:3He in
the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and
repaired them. 29:4He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the
broad place on the east, 29:5and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and
sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the
holy place. 29:6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh
our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh,
and turned their backs. 29:7Also 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 to the God of Israel.
29:8Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be
tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. 29:9For,
behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in
captivity for this. 29:10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel,
that his fierce anger may turn away from us. 29:11My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has
chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn
incense. 29:12Then 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
Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah; 29:13and of
the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
29:14and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and
Uzziel. 29:15They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the
commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh. 29:16The
priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the
uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The
Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron. 29:17Now 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 Yahweh;
and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end. 29:18Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, We have
cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels of it, and the
table of show bread, with all the vessels of it. 29:19Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his
reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and, behold, they are
before the altar of Yahweh. 29:20Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the
city, and went up to the house of Yahweh. 29:21They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven
lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for
Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh. 29:22So
they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they
killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the
blood on the altar. 29:23They brought near the male goats for the sin-offering before the king and the
assembly; and they laid their hands on them: 29:24and the priests killed them, and they made a
sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king
commanded that the burnt offering and the sin-offering should be made for all Israel. 29:25He set the
Levites in the house of Yahweh 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 the
commandment was of Yahweh by his prophets. 29:26The Levites stood with the instruments of
David, and the priests with the trumpets. 29:27Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering on
the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began also, and the trumpets,
together with the instruments of David king of Israel. 29:28All the assembly worshiped, and the
singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
29:29When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed
themselves and worshiped. 29:30Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the
Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang
praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped. 29:31Then Hezekiah answered,
Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and
thank-offerings into the house of Yahweh. The assembly brought in sacrifices and
thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings. 29:32The number of
the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two
hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh. 29:33The consecrated things were six
hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. 29:34But the priests were too few, so that they could not
flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was
ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart
to sanctify themselves than the priests. 29:35Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat
of the peace-offerings, and with the drink-offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the
house of Yahweh was set in order. 29:36Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which
God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
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