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their
backs.
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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 L
ORD
was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, 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 for this.
10
Now
it is
in mine
heart to make a covenant with the L
ORD
God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from
us.
11
My sons, be not now negligent: for the L
ORD
hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve
him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
12
Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of PrAzariah, of the sons
of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and PrAzariah 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 L
ORD
, to cleanse the house of the L
ORD
.
16
And the priests went into
the inner part of the house of the L
ORD
, to cleanse
it,
and brought out all the uncleanness that they
found in the temple of the L
ORD
into the court of the house of the L
ORD
. 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 L
ORD
: so they sanctified
the house of the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
,
and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the
vessels thereof.
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 L
ORD
.
20
Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the
house of the L
ORD
.
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 L
ORD
.
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 upon them:
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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
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