2 Chronicles 29:20-36 — Legacy Standard Bible

Hezekiah Brings an Offering

²⁰Then King Hezekiah arose early and gathered the princes of the city and went up to the house of Yahweh. ²¹And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats ^afor a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. And he ordered the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of Yahweh. ²²So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it on the altar. They also slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; they slaughtered the lambs also and ^asplashed the blood on the altar. ²³Then they had the male goats of the sin offering approach before the king and the assembly, and ^athey laid their hands on them. ²⁴And the priests slaughtered them and purged the altar with their blood ^ato atone for all Israel, for the king ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

²⁵^aHe then caused the Levites to stand in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, ^baccording to the command of David and of ^cGad the king’s seer, and of ^dNathan the prophet; for the command was from Yahweh by the hand of His prophets. ²⁶And the Levites stood with ^athe musical instruments of David, and ^bthe priests with the trumpets. ²⁷Then Hezekiah said to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, ^athe song to Yahweh also began with the trumpets, ¹accompanied by the instruments of David, king of Israel. ²⁸While the whole assembly worshiped, the singers also sang and the trumpets sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was completed.

²⁹Now at the completion of the burnt offerings, ^athe king and all who were present with him bowed down and worshiped. ³⁰Moreover, King Hezekiah and the officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David and Asaph the seer. ^aSo they sang praises with gladness, and bowed down and worshiped.

³¹Then Hezekiah answered and said, “^aNow that you have ¹become ordained to Yahweh, approach and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Yahweh.” And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and ^ball those who were willing of heart brought burnt offerings. ³²And the number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh. ³³And the holy things were 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep. ³⁴But the priests were too few, so that they were unable to skin all the burnt offerings; ^atherefore their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was completed and until the other priests had set themselves apart as holy. For ^bthe Levites were more upright of heart to set themselves apart as holy than the priests. ³⁵There were also ¹^,^amany burnt offerings with ^bthe fat of the peace offerings and with ^cthe drink offerings for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of Yahweh was established again. ³⁶Then Hezekiah and all the people were glad over what God had prepared for the people, because the thing came about suddenly.