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Chapter 29 Hezekiah began to reign when he
was five and twenty years old,

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and he reigned nine and twenty years in
Jerusalem.

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And his mother's name was Abijah,
the daughter of Zechariah.

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And he did that which was right in the
sight of the Lord, according to all that

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David his father had done.

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He, in the first year of his reign,
in the first month, opened the doors of

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the house of the Lord and repaired them.

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And he brought in the priests and the
Levites, and gathered them together into

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the east street, and said unto them,
Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now

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yourselves, and sanctify the house of the
Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth

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the filthiness out of the holy place.

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For our fathers have trespassed and done
that which was evil in the eyes of the

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Lord our God, and have forsaken him,
and have turned away their faces from the

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habitation of the Lord, and turned their
backs.

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Also they have shut up the doors of the
porch, and put out the lamps, and have not

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burned incense, nor offered burnt
offerings in the holy place unto the God

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of Israel.

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Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon
Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered

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them to trouble, to astonishment,
and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

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For lo, our fathers have fallen by the
sword, and our sons and our daughters and

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our wives are in captivity for this.

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Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant
with the Lord God of Israel, that his

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fierce wrath may turn away from us.

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My sons, be not now negligent,
for the Lord hath chosen you to stand

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before him, to serve him, and that ye
should minister unto him, and burn

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incense.

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Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of
Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah,

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of the sons of the Kohathites,
and of the sons of Merari, Kish,

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the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of
Jehalel, and of the Gershonites,

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Joah the son of Zimmer, and Eden the son
of Joah, and of the sons of Elizaphan,

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Shimri, and Jeiel, and of the sons of
Asaph, Zechariah, and Mataniah,

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and of the sons of Heman, Jehiel,
and Shimei, and of the sons of Juduthun,

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Shimei, and Aziel.

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And they gathered their brethren and
sanctified themselves, and came,

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according to the commandment of the king,
by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the

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house of the Lord.

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And the priests went into the inner part
of the house of the Lord to cleanse it,

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and brought out all the uncleanness that
they found in the temple of the Lord into

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the court of the house of the Lord.

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And the Levites took it to carry it out
abroad into the brook Kidron.

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Now they began on the first day of the
first month to sanctify, and on the eighth

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day of the month came they to the porch of
the Lord.

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So they sanctified the house of the Lord
in eight days, and in the sixteenth day of

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the first month they made an end.

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Then they went into Hezekiah the king and
said, We have cleansed all the house of

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the Lord, and the altar of burned
offering, with all the vessels thereof,

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and the shewbread table with all the
vessels thereof.

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Moreover, all the vessels which king Ahaz
in his reign did cast away in his

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transgression, have we prepared and
sanctified, and behold, they are before

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the altar of the Lord.

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Then Hezekiah the king rose early,
and gathered the rulers of the city,

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and went up to the house of the Lord.

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And they brought seven bullocks,
and seven rams, and seven lambs,

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and seven he-goats, for a sin offering for
the kingdom, and for the sanctuary,

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and for Judah.

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And he commanded the priests, the sons of
Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the

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Lord.

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So they killed the bullocks, and the
priests received the blood, and sprinkled

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it on the altar.

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Likewise, when they had killed the rams,
they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

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They killed also the lambs, and they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

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And they brought forth the he-goats for
the sin offering before the king and the

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congregation, and they laid their hands
upon them.

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And the priests killed them, and they made
reconciliation with their blood upon the

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altar, to make an atonement for all
Israel.

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For the king commanded that the burnt
offering and the sin offering should be

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made for all Israel.

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And he set the Levites in the house of the
Lord with cymbals, with psalteries,

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and with harps, according to the
commandment of David, and of Gad the

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king's seer.

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And Nathan the prophet, for so was the
commandment of the Lord by his prophets.

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And the Levites stood with the instruments
of David, and the priests with the

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trumpets.

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And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt
offering upon the altar.

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And when the burnt offering began,
the song of the Lord began also with the

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trumpets, and with the instruments
ordained by David, king of Israel.

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And all the congregation worshipped,
and the singers sang, and the trumpeters

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sounded.

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And all this continued until the burnt
offering was finished.

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And when they had made an end of offering,
the king and all that were present with

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him bowed themselves and worshipped.

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Moreover, Hezekiah the king and the
princes commanded the Levites to sing

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praise unto the Lord with the words of
David, and of Asaph the seer.

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And they sang praises with gladness,
and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

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Then Hezekiah answered and said,
Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto

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the Lord.

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Come near and bring sacrifices and
thank-offerings into the house of the

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Lord.

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And the congregation brought in sacrifices
and thank-offerings, and as many as were

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of a free heart burnt offerings.

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And the number of the burnt offerings
which the congregation brought was three

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score and ten bullocks, and a hundred
rams, and two hundred lambs.

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All these were for a burnt offering to the
Lord.

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And the consecrated things were six
hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

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But the priests were too few, so that they
could not flay all the burnt offerings.

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Wherefore their brethren the Levites did
help them till the work was ended,

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and until the other priests had sanctified
themselves.

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For the Levites were more upright in heart
to sanctify themselves than the priests.

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And also the burnt offerings were in
abundance, with the fat of the

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peace-offerings and the drink-offerings
for every burnt offering, so that the

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service of the house of the Lord was set
in order.

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And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people,
that God had prepared the people,

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for the thing was done suddenly.