Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2Ki 18:1-31Ch 3:132Ch 26:5Hos 1:1Isa 1:1Isa 8:2Mat 1:9-10Mic 1:1 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done. 2Ch 28:12Ch 34:2
¶ He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. 2Ch 28:242Ch 29:7Mat 6:332Ch 34:32Ki 16:14-18Ecc 9:10Gal 1:16Psa 101:3 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, 2Ch 32:6Jer 19:2Neh 3:29 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 2Ch 35:61Co 3:16-171Ch 15:122Ch 34:3-8Ezk 8:9-182Ch 29:15-162Ch 29:342Co 7:1 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. 1 Ezk 8:16Jer 2:272Ch 28:2-42Ch 28:23-252Ch 34:21Dan 9:16Ezr 5:12Ezr 9:7 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. 2Ch 28:24Lev 24:2-82Ch 29:32Ki 16:17-18Mal 1:10 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes. 2 Jer 25:18Jer 25:92Ch 24:18Deu 28:25Jer 19:8Jer 29:181Ki 9:82Ch 34:24-25 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 2Ch 28:172Ch 28:5-8Lam 5:7Lev 26:17 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us. Jer 50:52Ch 23:16Ezr 10:32Ch 15:12-132Ch 34:30-322Ch 6:7-82Co 8:52Ki 23:26 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense. 3 4 Deu 10:8Num 8:6-14Num 18:2-7Num 3:6-9Gal 6:7-8Num 16:35-40
¶ Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah: 1Ch 15:5-71Ch 23:7-231Ch 6:16-211Ch 6:442Ch 31:13Exo 6:16-25Num 3:17Num 3:19-20 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: 1Ch 6:391Ch 15:81Ch 15:171Ch 25:2Lev 10:4 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel. 1Ch 6:331Ch 15:191Ch 25:11Ch 25:31Ch 25:6 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD. 5 1Ch 23:282Ch 30:122Ch 29:5 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron. 2Ch 15:161Ki 6:19-202Ch 3:82Ch 5:72Ki 23:4-62Sa 15:23Exo 26:33-34Ezk 36:29 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 LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. 1Ch 28:111Ki 6:32Ch 29:32Ch 29:72Ch 3:4Exo 12:2-8 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof. 2Ch 13:112Ch 4:12Ch 4:7-8 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 LORD. 2Ch 28:24
¶ Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. Exo 24:4Gen 22:3Jer 25:4Jos 6:12 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 LORD. Lev 4:3-14Ezk 45:23Job 42:81Ch 15:26Ezr 8:35Num 23:1Num 23:14Num 23:29 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. Lev 4:18Lev 8:19Lev 8:24Heb 9:21-22Lev 1:5Lev 4:34Lev 4:7Lev 8:14-15 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: 6 Lev 4:15Lev 1:4Lev 4:24 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. 2Co 5:18-21Col 1:20-21Dan 9:24Ezk 45:15Ezk 45:17Heb 2:17Lev 14:20Lev 4:13-35 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD 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 LORD by his prophets. 7 8 2Ch 8:141Ch 23:51Ch 15:16-221Ch 16:4-51Ch 16:421Ch 25:1-71Ch 9:332Ch 35:15 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. 1Ch 23:51Ch 15:24Amo 6:51Ch 16:62Ch 5:12-13Isa 38:20Jos 6:4-9Num 10:10 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel. 9 10 2Ch 23:182Ch 20:212Ch 7:3Psa 136:1Psa 137:3-4 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished. 11 Psa 68:24-26Psa 89:15Rev 5:8-14 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped. 12 2Ch 20:181Ch 29:20Php 2:10-11Psa 72:11Rom 14:11 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped. Php 4:4Psa 32:11Psa 95:1-21Ch 16:7-36Psa 100:1-2Psa 149:22Sa 23:1-2Psa 95:6 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings. 13 2Ch 13:9Exo 35:22Exo 35:5Ezr 1:4Lev 1:1-3Lev 23:38Lev 7:12 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD. 1Ch 29:211Ki 3:41Ki 8:63Ezr 6:17 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. 14 2Ch 35:112Ch 30:31Ch 29:172Ch 29:52Ch 30:16-17Num 18:3Num 18:6-7Num 8:15 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order. Exo 29:13Num 15:5-101Ch 16:37-42Gen 35:14Lev 23:13Lev 3:15-161Co 14:40Ezr 6:18 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly. 1Ch 29:91Th 3:8-9Act 2:41Ezr 6:22Pro 16:1Psa 10:171Ch 29:17-182Ch 30:12