2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 29
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2 Chronicles 29 — Scripture text (King James Version)
began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in . And his mother’s name was , the daughter of . And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. And he brought in the priests and the , and gathered them together into the east street, And said unto them, Hear me, ye , sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 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. Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of . Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon and , and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes. For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the , and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. Now it is in mine heart to make a with the LORD God of , that his fierce wrath may turn away from us. 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. Then the arose, Mahath the son of , and the son of , of the sons of the : and of the sons of , Kish the son of , and the son of : and of the ; Joah the son of , and the son of : And of the sons of ; Shimri, and : and of the sons of ; , and : And of the sons of ; Jehiel, and : and of the sons of ; Shemaiah, and . 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. 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 of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook . Now they began the first day of the first month to sanctify, and 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. Then they went in to the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of , with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof. Moreover all the vessels, which king in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD. Then the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a for the kingdom, and for , and for . And he commanded the priests the sons of to offer them the altar of the LORD. So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it 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. And they brought forth the he goats for the before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an for all : for the king commanded that the and the should be made for all . And he set the in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of , and of the king’s seer, and the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets. And the stood with the instruments of , and the priests with . And commanded to offer the upon the altar. And when the began, the song of the LORD began also with , and with the instruments ordained by king of . And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the was finished. And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped. Moreover the king and the princes commanded the to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of , and of the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped. Then 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. 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 to the LORD. And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand . But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every . So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order. And rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.