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Hezekiah's Temple Restoration and Religious Reforms

2 Chronicles 29:1-36

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Chapter 29
1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done. 3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them. 4 And he gathered the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the eastern street. 5 He said to them, "Hear me, Levites. Now consecrate yourselves and consecrate the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the holy place." 6 For our fathers acted unfaithfully and did evil in the eyes of the LORD our God and abandoned him and turned their faces from the tabernacle of the LORD and gave their necks. 7 They also shut the doors of the porch and extinguished the lamps. They did not offer incense, and they did not offer up burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. 8 The wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he gave them to terror, to desolation, and to hissing, just as you see with your eyes. 9 Behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity because of this. 10 Now I intend to cut a covenant for the LORD God of Israel with all my heart, so that his fierce anger may turn back from him. 11 My sons, now do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and to be his ministers and incense burners. 12 And the Levites arose: Mahath son of Ammi and Joel son of Azariah, from the sons of the Kohathites; and from the sons of Merari, Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel; and from the Gershonites, Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah. 13 and from the sons of Elizaphan, Shimei and Jeiel, and from the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah. 14 and from the sons of Heman: Jahiel and Shimei; and from the sons of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel. 15 And they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves and came, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD, to ritually purify the house of the LORD. 16 The priests entered the inner part of the house of the LORD to purify it. They brought out all the impurity that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD, and the Levites received it to carry it out to the Kidron Valley outside. 17 They began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the LORD. And they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. 18 They went in to King Hezekiah and said, "We have purified the whole house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table of the set-out bread and all its utensils." 19 And all the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his kingdom during his trespass we have prepared and consecrated, and they are before the altar of the LORD. 20 Then King Hezekiah rose early, gathered the officials of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He said to the sons of Aaron, the priests, to offer them up on the altar of the LORD. 22 They slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and dashed it against the altar. They slaughtered the rams and dashed the blood against the altar. They slaughtered the sheep and dashed the blood against the altar. 23 And they brought the goats of the sin offering near before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them. 24 And the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar to atone for all Israel, for the king said that it was for all Israel: "the burnt offering and the sin offering." 25 He stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commands of David, Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet. For the command of the LORD came through his prophets. 26 And the Levites stood with the vessels of David, and the priests with the trumpets. 27 And Hezekiah said to offer up the burnt offering to the altar. And at the time of beginning the burnt offering, the song of the LORD began, and the trumpets, by the hand of the vessels of David king of Israel. 28 And all the assembly prostrated themselves, and the song was sung, and the trumpets sounded, all until the burnt offering was finished. 29 And upon finishing offering up his knee, the king and all those found with him prostrated themselves. 30 And King Hezekiah and the officials said to the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and Asaph the seer. And they praised until they were full of joy, and they bowed and prostrated themselves. 31 Hezekiah answered and said, "Now you have filled your hand to the LORD. Approach and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD." And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and every noble of willing heart brought burnt offerings. 32 The number of the burnt offering that the assembly brought was seventy cattle, one hundred rams, two hundred sheep for a burnt offering to the LORD—all these. 33 And the dedicated gifts: six hundred cattle and three thousand sheep. 34 The priests were too few, and they could not skin all the burnt offerings. So their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was finished and the priests had consecrated themselves—for the Levites were more upright in heart to consecrate themselves than the priests. 35 Also, burnt offerings went up in abundance, with the fat portions of the confirming of the words and with the libations for the burnt offering. And the service of the house of the LORD was prepared. 36 Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people rejoiced with him, because God had prepared the people for it, for the matter had happened suddenly.