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Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old ,
and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem .
And his mothers name was Abijah ,
the daughter of Zechariah .
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD ,
according to all that David his father had done .
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He in the first year of his reign ,
in the first month ,
opened the doors of the house of the LORD ,
and repaired them .
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And he brought in the priests and the Levites ,
and gathered them together into the east street ,
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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 .
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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 .
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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 Yisra #
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Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem ,
and he hath delivered them to trouble za #
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to astonishment ,
and to hissing ,
as ye see with your 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 mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
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that his fierce wrath may turn away from us .
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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 .
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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 Y @
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and of the Gershonites ;
Joah the son of Zimmah ,
and Eden the son of Joah Yow #
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And of the sons of Elizaphan ;
Shimri ,
and Jeiel Y @#
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and of the sons of Asaph ;
Zechariah ,
and Mattaniah :
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And of the sons of Heman ;
Jehiel Y @
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and Shimei Shim #
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and of the sons of Jeduthun ;
Shemaiah Sh @
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and Uzziel #
Uzziy #
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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 .
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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 .
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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 shesh #
day of the first month they made an end .
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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 .
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Moreover all the vessels ,
which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression ma #
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have we prepared and sanctified ,
and ,
behold ,
they are before the altar of the LORD .
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Then Hezekiah the king rose early ,
and gathered the rulers of the city ,
and went up to the house of the LORD .
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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 .
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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 .
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And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation ;
and they laid their hands upon them :
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And the priests killed them ,
and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar ,
to make an atonement for all Israel Yisra #
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for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel Yisra #
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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 kings seer ,
and Nathan the prophet :
for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets .
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And the Levites stood with the instruments of David ,
and the priests with the trumpets .
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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 Yisra #
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And all the congregation worshipped ,
and the singers sang ,
and the trumpeters sounded (
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and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished .
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And when they had made an end of offering ,
the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves ,
and worshipped .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .