2Chr 29
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And Ezekias Gr. reigned began to reign at the age of twenty-five years, and he reigned twenty-nine years
in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abia, daughter of Zacharias.
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his
father David had done.
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And it came to pass, when he Gr. stood was established over his kingdom, in the first month, he 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 put them on the east side,
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and said to them, Hear, you Levites: now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house
of the Lord God of your fathers, and cast out the impurity from the holy places.
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For our fathers have revolted, and done that which was evil before the Lord our God,
and have forsaken him, and have turned away their face from the tabernacle of the
Lord, and have turned their back.
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And they have shut up the doors of the temple, and put out the lamps, and have not
burnt incense, and have not offered whole-burnt-offerings in the holy place to the
God of Israel.
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And the Lord was very angry with Juda and Jerusalem, and made them an astonishment,
and a desolation, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
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And, behold, your fathers have been smitten with the sword, and your sons and your
daughters and your wives are in captivity in a land not their own, as it is even now.
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Therefore it is now in my heart to make a Or, my covenant covenant, a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, Gr. and he shall
that he may turn away his fierce anger from us.
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And now be not wanting to your duty, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him
to minister, and to be ministers and burners of incense to him.
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Then the Levites rose up, Maath the son of Amasi, and Joel the son of Azarias, of
the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Kis the son of Abdi, and Azarias the
son of Haelel: and of the sons of Gedsoni, Jodaad the son of Zemmath, and Joadam:
these were the sons of Joacha.
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And of the sons of Elisaphan; Zambri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zacharias,
and Matthanias:
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and of the sons of Æman; Jeiel, and Semei: and of the sons of Idithun; Samaisa, and
Oziel.
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And they gathered their brethren, and they purified themselves according to the king’s
command by the order of the Lord, to purify the house of the Lord.
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And the priests entered into the house of the Lord, to purify it, and they cast out
all the uncleanness that was found in the house of the Lord, even into the court of
the house of the Lord: and the Levites received it to cast into the brook of Kedron
without.
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And Ezekias began on the first day, even on the new moon of the first month, to purify,
and on the eighth day of the month they entered into the temple of the Lord: and they
purified the house of the Lord in eight days; and on the Alex. 16th thirteenth day of the first month they finished the work.
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And they went in to king Ezekias, and said, We have purified all the things in the
house of the Lord, the altar of whole-burnt-offering, and its vessels, and the table
of shew-bread, and its vessels;
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and all the vessels which king Achaz polluted in his reign, in his apostasy, we have
prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
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And king Ezekias rose early in the morning, and gathered the chief men of the city,
and went up to the house of the Lord.
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And he brought seven calves, seven rams, seven lambs, seven kids of goats for a sin-offering,
for the kingdom, and for the holy things, and for Israel: and he told the priests
the sons of Aaron to go up to the altar of the Lord.
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And they slew the calves, and the priests received the blood, and poured it on the
altar: and they slew the rams, and poured the blood upon the altar: also they slew
the lambs, and poured the blood round the altar.
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And they brought the goats for a sin-offering before the king and the congregation;
and laid their hands upon them.
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And the priests slew them, and offered their blood as a propitiation on the altar;
and they made atonement for all Israel: for the king said, The whole-burnt-offering,
and the sin-offering are for all Israel.
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And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and lutes, and
harps, according to the commandment of king David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and
Nathan the prophet: for by the commandment of the Lord the order was in the hand of
the 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 Ezekias told them to offer up the whole-burnt-offering on the altar: and when
they began to offer the whole-burnt-offering, they began to sing to the Lord, and
the trumpets accompanied the instruments of David king of Israel.
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And all the congregation worshiped, and the psalm-singers were singing, and the trumpets
sounding, until the whole-burnt-sacrifice had been Gr. completed completely offered.
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And when they had done offering it, the king and all that were Gr. found; Hebraism present bowed, and worshiped.
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And king Ezekias and the princes told the Levites to sing hymns to the Lord in the
words of David, and of Asaph the prophet: and they sang hymns with gladness, and fell
down and worshiped.
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Then Ezekias answered and said, Now you have Gr. filled your hands consecrated yourselves to the Lord, bring near and offer
sacrifices of praise in
the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought sacrifices and thank-offerings
into the house of the Lord; and every one who was ready in his heart brought whole-burnt-offerings.
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And the number of the Gr. singular whole-burnt-offerings which the congregation brought, was seventy calves, a hundred
rams, two hundred lambs: all these were for a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord.
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And the consecrated calves were six hundred, and the sheep three thousand.
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But the priests were few, and could not flay the whole-burnt-offering, so their brethren
the Levites helped them, until the work was finished, and until the priests had purified
themselves: for the Levites more zealously purified themselves than the priests.
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And the whole-burnt-offering was abundant, with the Gr. fats fat of the The Heb. is here doubly translated complete peace-offering,
and the drink-offerings of the whole-burnt-sacrifice. So
the service Or, was rightly ordered was established in the house of the Lord.
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And Ezekias and all the people rejoiced, because God has prepared the people: for
the thing was done suddenly.