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Chapter 29
- 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.
- 29:2
- And he did that which was right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had
done.
- 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.
- 29:4
- And he brought in the priests and
the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 29:13
- And of the sons of Elizaphan;
Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
- 29:14
- And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel,
and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
- 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.
- 29:20
- Then Hezekiah the king rose early,
and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the
LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 29:26
- And the Levites stood with the
instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- 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.
- 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.
- 29:29
- And when they had made an end of
offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed
themselves, and worshipped.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 29:33
- And the consecrated things were
six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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