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Hezeki '
ah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old ,
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name was Abi '
jah the daughter of Zechari '
ah .
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD ,
according to all that David his father had done .
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In the first year of his reign ,
in the first month ,
he opened the doors of the house of the LORD ,
and repaired them .
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He brought in the priests and the Levites ,
and assembled them in the square on the east ,
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and said to them , "
Hear me ,
Levites !
Now sanctify yourselves ,
and sanctify the house of the LORD ,
the God of your fathers ,
and carry out the filth from the holy place .
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For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God ;
they have forsaken him ,
and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD ,
and turned their backs .
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They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps ,
and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel .
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Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem ,
and he has made them an object of horror ,
of astonishment ,
and of hissing ,
as you see with your own eyes .
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For lo ,
our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this .
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Now 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 .
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My sons ,
do not now be negligent ,
for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence ,
to minister to him ,
and to be his ministers and burn incense to him ."
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Then the Levites arose ,
Mahath the son of Ama '
sai ,
and Jo '
el the son of Azari '
ah ,
of the sons of the Ko '
hathites ;
and of the sons of Merar '
i ,
Kish the son of Abdi ,
and Azari '
ah the son of Jehal '
lelel ;
and of the Gershonites ,
Jo '
ah the son of Zimmah ,
and Eden the son of Jo '
ah ;
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and of the sons of Eli-za '
phan ,
Shimri and Jeu '
el ;
and of the sons of Asaph ,
Zechari '
ah and Mattani '
ah ;
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and of the sons of Heman ,
Jehu '
el and Shim '
e-i ;
and of the sons of Jedu '
thun ,
Shemai '
ah and Uz '
ziel .
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They 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 .
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The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it ,
and they 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 and carried it out to the brook Kidron .
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They began to sanctify on the first day of the first month ,
and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the LORD ;
then for eight days they sanctified the house of the LORD ,
and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished .
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Then they went in to Hezeki '
ah the king and said , "
We have cleansed all the house of the LORD ,
the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils ,
and the table for the showbread and all its utensils .
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All the utensils which King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless ,
we have made ready and sanctified ;
and behold ,
they are before the altar of the LORD ."
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Then Hezeki '
ah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city ,
and went up to the house of the LORD .
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And they brought seven bulls ,
seven rams ,
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 .
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So they killed the bulls ,
and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar ;
and they killed the rams and their blood was thrown against the altar ;
and they killed the lambs and their blood was thrown against the altar .
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Then the he-goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly ,
and they laid their hands upon them ,
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and the priests killed them and 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 .
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And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals ,
harps ,
and lyres ,
according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king '
s seer and of Nathan the prophet ;
for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets .
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The Levites stood with the instruments of David ,
and the priests with the trumpets .
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Then Hezeki '
ah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar .
And when the burnt offering began ,
the song to the LORD began also ,
and the trumpets ,
accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel .
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The whole assembly worshiped ,
and the singers sang ,
and the trumpeters sounded ;
all this continued until the burnt offering was finished .
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When the offering was finished ,
the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped .
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And Hezeki '
ah the king and the princes commanded 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 they bowed down and worshiped .
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Then Hezeki '
ah said , "
You have now consecrated yourselves to the LORD ;
come near ,
bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD ."
And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings ;
and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings .
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The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls ,
a hundred rams ,
and two hundred lambs ;
all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD .