2Chronicles:29

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web @2Chronicles:29:1 @Hezekiah 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:2 @He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh , according to all that David his father had done . web @2Chronicles:29:3 @He in the first year of his reign , in the first month , opened the doors of the house of Yahweh , and repaired them . web @2Chronicles:29:4 @He brought in the priests and the Levites , and gathered them together into the broad place on the east , web @2Chronicles:29:5 @and said to them , "Listen to me , you Levites ! Now sanctify yourselves , and sanctify the house of Yahweh , the God of your fathers , and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place . web @2Chronicles:29:6 @For 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 . web @2Chronicles: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 to the God of Israel . web @2Chronicles:29:8 @Therefore 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:9 @For , behold , our fathers have fallen by the sword , and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this . web @2Chronicles:29:10 @Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh , the God of Israel , that his fierce anger may turn away from us . web @2Chronicles:29:11 @My 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 ." web @2Chronicles: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 Jehallelel ; and of the Gershonites , Joah the son of Zimmah , and Eden the son of Joah ; web @2Chronicles:29:13 @and of the sons of Elizaphan , Shimri and Jeuel ; and of the sons of Asaph , Zechariah and Mattaniah ; web @2Chronicles:29:14 @and of the sons of Heman , Jehuel and Shimei ; and of the sons of Jeduthun , Shemaiah and Uzziel . web @2Chronicles:29:15 @They 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:16 @The 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 Yahweh 's temple into the court of the house of Yahweh . The Levites took it , to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron . web @2Chronicles: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 Yahweh ; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days : and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end . web @2Chronicles:29:18 @Then 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 its vessels , and the table of show bread , with all its vessels . web @2Chronicles:29:19 @Moreover all the vessels , which king Ahaz in his reign threw away when he trespassed , have we prepared and sanctified ; and behold , they are before the altar of Yahweh ." web @2Chronicles:29:20 @Then Hezekiah the king arose early , and gathered the princes of the city , and went up to the house of Yahweh . web @2Chronicles:29:21 @They 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:22 @So 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:23 @They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly ; and they laid their hands on them : web @2Chronicles:29:24 @and 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:25 @He set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals , with stringed instruments , 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:26 @The Levites stood with the instruments of David , and the priests with the trumpets . web @2Chronicles:29:27 @Hezekiah 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:28 @All the assembly worshiped , and the singers sang , and the trumpeters sounded ; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished . web @2Chronicles:29:29 @When they had made an end of offering , the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped . web @2Chronicles:29:30 @Moreover 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:31 @Then 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:32 @The 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:33 @The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep . web @2Chronicles:29:34 @But 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:35 @Also 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 . web @2Chronicles:29:36 @Hezekiah 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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