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1 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.
2 And he did that which was right
in the sight of the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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, 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.
6 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.
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 Israel.
8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon
Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and
to hissing, as ye 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 mine heart to make
a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from
us.
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.
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 the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
16 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.
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 the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD.
20 Then Hezekiah the king
rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the
LORD.
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.
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
the LORD 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 the LORD 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
the LORD 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 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.
31 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.
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.
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 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 the LORD was set in order.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the
people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done
suddenly.
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