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II Chronicles

Chapter 29

11 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.

{Hezekiah is a Believer}
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of Jehovah/God,
according to all that David his father had done.

3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,
opened the doors of the house of Jehovah/God,
and repaired them.

4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites,
and gathered them together into the east street, 5
and said unto them,
Hear me, you Levites,
sanctify now yourselves,
and sanctify the house of Jehovah/God
'Elohiym/Godhead of your fathers,
and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

6 For our fathers have trespassed,
and done that which was evil in the eyes of Jehovah/God
our 'Elohiym/Godhead,
and have forsaken Him,
and have turned away their faces
from the habitation of Jehovah/God,
and turned their backs.

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 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel.

8 Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah/God
was upon Judah and Jerusalem,
and He has delivered them to trouble,
to astonishment, and to hissing,
as you see with your eyes.

9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,
and our sons and our daughters and our wives
are in captivity for this.

10 Now it is in my heart/'right lobe'
to make a covenant with the Jehovah/God
'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel,
that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

11 My sons, be not now negligent . . .
for Jehovah/God has chosen you
to stand before Him, to serve Him,
and that you should minister unto Him,
and burn incense.

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 13
and of the sons of Elizaphan;
Shimri, and Jeiel
and of the sons of Asaph;
Zechariah, and Mattaniah 14
And of the sons of Heman;
Jehiel, and Shimei
and of the sons of Jeduthun;
Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

15 And they gathered their brethren,
and sanctified themselves, and came,
according to the commandment of the king,
by the words of Jehovah/God,
to cleanse the house of Jehovah/God.

16 And the priests went into the inner part
of the house of Jehovah/God, to cleanse it,
and brought out all the uncleanness
that they found in the temple of Jehovah/God
into the court of the house of Jehovah/God.

And the Levites took it,
to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

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 Jehovah/God . . .
so they sanctified the house of Jehovah/God
in eight days;
and in the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end.

18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said,
We have cleansed all the house of Jehovah/God,
and the altar of burnt offering,
with all the vessels thereof,
and the shewbread table,
with all the vessels thereof.

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 Jehovah/God.

20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early,
and gathered the rulers of the city,
and went up to the house of Jehovah/God.

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 Jehovah/God.

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.

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 . . . 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.

25 And he set the Levites
in the house of Jehovah/God
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 Jehovah/God
by His prophets.

26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,
and the priests with the trumpets.

27 And Hezekiah commanded
to offer the burnt offering upon the altar.

And when the burnt offering began,
the song of Jehovah/God began also with the trumpets,
and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.

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 And when they had made an end of offering,
the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves,
and worshipped.

30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes
commanded the Levites to sing praise unto Jehovah/God
with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer.

And they sang praises with gladness,
and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

31 Then Hezekiah answered and said,
Now You have consecrated yourselves unto Jehovah/God,
come near and bring sacrifices
and thank offerings into the house of Jehovah/God.

And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings;
and as many as were of a free heart/'right lobe' burnt offerings.

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 Jehovah/God.

33 And the consecrated things
were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

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/'right lobe'
to sanctify themselves than the priests.

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 Jehovah/God was set in order.

36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people,
that 'Elohiym/Godhead had prepared the people . . .
for the thing was done suddenly.