2 Chronicles Chapter 29
29:1 | Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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 ![]() |
29:6 | For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which was] ![]() |
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 ![]() |
29:8 | Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and ![]() ![]() |
29:9 | For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the ![]() |
29:10 | Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
29:16 | And the priests went into the inner part of the ![]() ![]() |
29:17 | Now they began on the first ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
29:18 | Then they went in to Hezekiah the ![]() ![]() |
29:19 | Moreover all the vessels, which ![]() |
29:20 | Then Hezekiah the ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() |
29:24 | And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all ![]() ![]() ![]() |
29:25 | And he set the Levites in the ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() |
29:30 | Moreover Hezekiah the ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
29:36 | And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly. |