2 Chronicles 29:3-36

2 Chronicles 29:3-36

[3] He in the first  year  of his reign,  in the first  month,  opened  the doors  of the house  of the LORD,  and repaired  [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  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  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  [10] Now it is in mine heart  to make  a covenant  with the LORD  God  of Israel,  that his fierce  wrath  may turn away  [11] My sons,  be not now negligent:  you to stand  before  him, to serve  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  [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] 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  [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] 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] 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] 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] rejoiced,  and all the people,  that God  had prepared  the people:  for the thing  was done suddenly.