2 Chronicles 29

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1 Hezekiah reigned twenty-five years, and twenty-nine years he reigned in Jerusalem; His mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, as David did, his father.
3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD'S house 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, Levites! Sanctify now [themselves], and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the sanctuary.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the sight 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 and locked the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
8 And the Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.
9 And now, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this day.
10 Now in my heart - to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so turn away from his fierce anger.
eleven My children! do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to serve him and to be his ministers 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, son of Abdi, and Azariah the son Iegallelela; and from the tribe of Gershon: Joah son Simma, and Eden, son of Joah;
13 Of the sons of Asaph: Shimri and Jeiel; 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 They gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went according to the commandment of the king to cleanse the house of the Lord in the words of the Lord.
16 And the priests went into 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 LORD's house, and the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 And they began to sanctify on the first [day] of the first month, and on the eighth day [the same] of the month entered the vestibule of the LORD; and sanctify the house of Jehovah eight days, and in the sixteenth day of the first month, finished.
18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, and all its vessels, and the table [for bread] offers, and all the vessels thereof;
19 and all the vessels that king Ahaz threw during his reign, in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.

20 And Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the rulers of the city, and went into the house of the LORD.
21 And they brought seven bulls and seven rams and seven lambs and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah; and he ordered the sons of Aaron, the priests offer the burnt offering on the altar of the LORD.
22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar, and they killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar; and they killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation, and they laid their hands on them.
24 And the priests killed them, and purify the blood of their altar zaglazhdeniya sins of all Israel, because for all Israel, the king commanded [bring] the burnt offering and sin offering.
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps and lyres, according to the ordinance of David, and of Gad, seer, and Nathan the prophet, because the Lord [is] the statute through His prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with [musical] instruments of David, and the priests with trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering on the altar. And at the time, as a burnt offering began, singing to the Lord began, with [the sound of] pipes and instruments of David king of Israel.
28 And all the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded, until the burnt offering was finished.
29 Upon completion of the offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed and worshiped.
thirty And Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise to the Lord the words of David and of Asaph the seer, and they sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads and worshiped.
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves to the Lord; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And suffered [all] meeting sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were heart --vsesozhzheniya.
32 And the number of burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs - all for a burnt offering to the Lord.
33 [Other] sacred victims [were] six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
34 But the priests were too few, and they could not flay all the burnt offerings, and helped them to their brethren, the Levites, to the end, and until sanctified [other] priests, for the Levites were more upright in the consecration of themselves than the priests.
35 And also the burnt offerings [were] set with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. Thus the service of the house of the LORD.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people that God has [sic] the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

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