2 Chronicles 29 - New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

Hezekiah Purifies the Temple

29 Hezekiah was 25 years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother’s name was Abijah. She was the daughter of Zechariah. ²Hezekiah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as King David had done.

³In the first month of Hezekiah’s first year as king, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple. He repaired them. ⁴He brought the priests and Levites in. He gathered them together in the open area on the east side of the temple. ⁵He said, “Levites, listen to me! Set yourselves apart to the Lord. Set apart the temple of the Lord. He’s the God of your people who lived long ago. Remove anything ‘unclean’ from the temple. ⁶Our people weren’t faithful. They did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God. They deserted him. They turned their faces away from the place where he lives. They turned their backs on him. ⁷They also shut the doors of the temple porch. They put the lamps out. They didn’t burn incense at the temple. They didn’t sacrifice burnt offerings there to the God of Israel. ⁸So the Lord has become angry with Judah and Jerusalem. He has made them look so bad that everyone is shocked when they see them. They laugh at them. You can see it with your own eyes. ⁹That’s why our fathers have been killed by swords. That’s why our sons and daughters and wives have become prisoners. ¹⁰So I’m planning to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel. Then he’ll stop being angry with us. ¹¹My sons, don’t fail to obey the Lord. He has chosen you to stand in front of him and work for him. He wants you to serve him and burn incense to him.”

¹²Here are the Levites who went to work.

Mahath and Joel were from the family line of Kohath.

Mahath was the son of Amasai. Joel was the son of Azariah.

Kish and Azariah were from the family line of Merari.

Kish was the son of Abdi. Azariah was the son of Jehallelel.

Joah and Eden were from the family line of Gershon.

Joah was the son of Zimmah. Eden was the son of Joah.

¹³Shimri and Jeiel were from the family line of Elizaphan.

Zechariah and Mattaniah were from the family line of Asaph.

¹⁴Jehiel and Shimei were from the family line of Heman.

Shemaiah and Uzziel were from the family line of Jeduthun.

¹⁵All these Levites gathered the other Levites together. They set themselves apart to the Lord. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple. That’s what the king had ordered them to do. They did what the Lord told them to. ¹⁶The priests went into the Lord’s temple to make it pure. They brought out to the temple courtyard everything that was “unclean.” They had found “unclean” things in the Lord’s temple. The Levites took them and carried them out to the Kidron Valley. ¹⁷On the first day of the first month they began to set everything in the temple apart to the Lord. By the eighth day of the month they reached the Lord’s porch. For eight more days they set the Lord’s temple itself apart to him. They finished on the 16th day of the first month.

¹⁸Then they went to King Hezekiah. They reported, “We’ve purified the whole temple of the Lord. That includes the altar for burnt offerings and all its tools. It also includes the table for the holy bread and all its objects. ¹⁹We’ve prepared all the things King Ahaz had removed. We’ve set them apart to the Lord. Ahaz had removed them while he was king. He wasn’t faithful to the Lord. Those things are now in front of the Lord’s altar.”

²⁰Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered together the city officials. They all went up to the Lord’s temple. ²¹They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats with them. They sacrificed the animals as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the temple and for Judah. The king commanded the priests to offer them on the Lord’s altar. The priests were from the family line of Aaron. ²²They killed the bulls. Then they splashed the blood against the altar. Next they killed the rams and splashed the blood against the altar. Then they killed the lambs and splashed the blood against the altar. ²³The goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the whole community. They placed their hands on them. ²⁴Then the priests killed the goats. They put the blood on the altar as a sin offering. It paid for the sin of the whole nation of Israel. The king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for the whole nation.

²⁵Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple. They had cymbals, harps and lyres. They did everything in the way King David, his prophet Gad, and Nathan the prophet had required. The Lord had given commands about all these things through his prophets. ²⁶So the Levites stood ready with David’s musical instruments. And the priests had their trumpets ready.

²⁷Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. The offering began. Singing to the Lord also began. The singing was accompanied by the trumpets and by the instruments of David. He had been king of Israel. ²⁸The whole community bowed down. They worshiped the Lord. At the same time the musicians played their musical instruments. The priests blew their trumpets. All of that continued until the burnt offering had been sacrificed.

²⁹So the offerings were finished. King Hezekiah got down on his knees. He worshiped the Lord. So did everyone who was with him. ³⁰The king and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the Lord. They used the words of David and Asaph the prophet. They sang praises with joy. They bowed down and worshiped the Lord.

³¹Then Hezekiah said, “You have set yourselves apart to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to his temple.” So the whole community brought sacrifices and thank offerings. Everyone who wanted to brought burnt offerings.

³²The whole community brought 70 bulls, 100 rams and 200 male lambs. They brought all of them as burnt offerings to the Lord. ³³The total number of animals set apart as sacrifices to the Lord was 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep and goats. ³⁴But there weren’t enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings. So their relatives, the Levites, helped them. They worked until the task was finished. By that time other priests had been set apart to the Lord. The Levites had been more careful than the priests when they set themselves apart. ³⁵There were large numbers of burnt offerings, along with the drink offerings and the fat from the friendship offerings. They were offered along with the burnt offerings.

So the service of the Lord’s temple was started up again. ³⁶Hezekiah and all the people were filled with joy. That’s because everything had been done so quickly. God had provided for his people in a wonderful way.

2 Chronicles 29 - Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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2 Chronicles 29 - Wycliffe Bible (WYC)

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2 Chronicles 29 - World English Bible (WEB)

29 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done. 3 In the first year of his reign, i...
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2 Chronicles 29 - Tree of Life Version (TLV)

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2 Chronicles 29 - Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

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2 Chronicles 29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV)

2 Chronicles 29 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

Reign of Hezekiah29 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, just as his ancestor David had done. The Temple Cleansed3 In the first year...
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2 Chronicles 29 - New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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2 Chronicles 29 - New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)

2 Chronicles 29 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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2 Chronicles 29 - New Living Translation (NLT)

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2 Chronicles 29 - New Life Version (NLV)

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2 Chronicles 29 - New King James Version (NKJV)

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2 Chronicles 29 - New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

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2 Chronicles 29 - New International Version (NIV)

Hezekiah Purifies the Temple(A)29 Hezekiah(B) was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David(C) had done. 3 In the first month ...
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