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chapter 29
1
Now
Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned
nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the
daughter of Zacharias.
2 And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the
Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
3 In the first year and month of his reign he opened
the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
4 And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled
them in the east street.
5 And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be
sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away
all filth out of the sanctuary.
6 Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of
the Lord God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the
tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.
7 They have shut up the doors that were in tile porch,
and put out the lamps. and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in
the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up
against Juda and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to
destruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes.
9 Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our
sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.
10 Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant
with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his
indignation from us.
11 My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you
to stand before him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn
incense to him.
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai,
and Joel the son of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari,
Cis the son of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of the sons of
Gerson, Joah the son of Zemma, and Eden the son of Joah.
13 And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and Jahiel.
Also of the sons of Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias.
14 And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Semei: and of
the sons of Idithun, Semeias, and Oziel.
15 And they gathered together their brethren, and
sanctified themselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king,
and the precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.
16 And the priests went into the temple of the Lord to
sanctify it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found within to the
entrance of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took it away, and carried it
out abroad to the torrent Cedron.
17 And they began to cleanse on the first day of the
first month, and on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch
of the temple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on
the sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun.
18 And they went is to king Ezechias, and said to him:
We have sanctified all the house of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and
the vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with all its vessels,
19 And all the furniture of the temple, which king
Achaz in his reign had defiled, after his transgression; and behold they are
all set forth before the altar of the Lord.
20 And king Ezechias rising early, assembled all the
rulers of the city, and went up into the house of the Lord:
21 And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven
rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the
sanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to offer
them upon the altar of the Lord.
22 Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests
took the blood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and
their blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs, and
poured the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought the he goats for sin before the
king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:
24 And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their
blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had
commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all
Israel.
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with
cymbals, and psalteries, and harps according to the regulation of David the
king, and of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for it was the
commandment of the Lord by the hand of his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood, with the instruments of
David, and the priests with trumpets.
27 And Ezechias commanded that they should offer
holocausts upon the altar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to
sing praises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments
which David the king of Israel had prepared.
28 And all the multitude adored, and the singers, and
the trumpeters, were in their office till the holocaust was finished.
29 And when the oblation was ended, the king, and all
that were with him bowed down and adored.
30 And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites
to praise the Lord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they
praised him with great joy, and bowing the knee adored.
31 And Ezechias added, and said: You have filled your
hands to the Lord, come and offer victims, and praises in the house of the
Lord. And all the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocausts with a
devout mind.
32 And the number of the holocausts which the multitude
offered, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.
33 And they consecrated to the Lord six hundred oxen,
and three thousand sheep.
34 But the priests were few, and were not enough to
flay the holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the
work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are sanctified
with an easier rite than the priests.
35 So there were many holocausts, and the fat of peace
offerings, and the libations of holocausts: and the service of the house of the
Lord was completed.
36 And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because
the ministry of the Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this
thing was taken suddenly.
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