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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Chronicles 29 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/29.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > 2 Chronicles 29</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/28.htm" title="2 Chronicles 28">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 29 <a href="../2_chronicles/30.htm" title="2 Chronicles 30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/2_chronicles/29.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Hezekiah Consecrates the Temple</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He did what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> approved, just as his ancestor David had done.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple and repaired them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> God of your ancestors! Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s dwelling place and rejected him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now I intend to make a covenant with the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My sons, do not be negligent now, for the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> has chosen you to serve in his presence and offer sacrifices.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The following Levites prepared to carry out the king’s orders:</p><p class="bodytext">From the Kohathites: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;</p><p class="bodytext">from the Merarites: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;</p><p class="bodytext">from the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel;</p><p class="bodytext">from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>from the descendants of Heman: Jehiel and Shimei;</p><p class="bodytext">from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The priests then entered the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside. The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple. For eight more days they consecrated the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. The king told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it on the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; next they slaughtered the lambs and splashed the blood on the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>King Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> had actually given these orders through his prophets.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The Levites had David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord,</span> accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The entire assembly worshiped, as the singers sang and the trumpeters played. They continued until the burnt sacrifice was completed.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, using the psalms of David and Asaph the prophet. So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so brought burnt sacrifices.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep were consecrated. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple was reinstituted. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Hezekiah and all the people were happy about what God had done for them, for it had been done quickly.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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