Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 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 He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done. 2Ch 28:12Ch 34:2 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD’s house and repaired them. 2Ch 28:242Ch 29:7Mat 6:332Ch 34:32Ki 16:14-18Ecc 9:10Gal 1:16Psa 101:3 He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the wide place on the east, 2Ch 32:6Jer 19:2Neh 3:29 and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry 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 were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in the LORD our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. 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 to the God of Israel. 2Ch 28:24Lev 24:2-82Ch 29:32Ki 16:17-18Mal 1:10 Therefore the LORD’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. Jer 25:18Jer 25:92Ch 24:18Deu 28:25Jer 19:8Jer 29:181Ki 9:82Ch 34:24-25 For behold, 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 my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger 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, don’t be negligent now; for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers and burn incense.” 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 Jehallelel; 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 Jeuel; 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, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. 1Ch 6:331Ch 15:191Ch 25:11Ch 25:31Ch 25:6 They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the LORD’s words, to cleanse the LORD’s house. 1Ch 23:282Ch 30:122Ch 29:5 The priests went into the inner part of the LORD’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the LORD’s temple into the court of the LORD’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to 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 they came to the LORD’s porch. They sanctified the LORD’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. 1Ch 28:111Ki 6:32Ch 29:32Ch 29:72Ch 3:4Exo 12:2-8 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace and said, “We have cleansed all the LORD’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels. 2Ch 13:112Ch 4:12Ch 4:7-8 Moreover, we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which King Ahaz threw away in his reign when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before the LORD’s altar.” 2Ch 28:24
Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the LORD’s house. Exo 24:4Gen 22:3Jer 25:4Jos 6:12 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the LORD’s altar. Lev 4:3-14Ezk 45:23Job 42:81Ch 15:26Ezr 8:35Num 23:1Num 23:14Num 23:29 So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar. Lev 4:18Lev 8:19Lev 8:24Heb 9:21-22Lev 1:5Lev 4:34Lev 4:7Lev 8:14-15 They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them. Lev 4:15Lev 1:4Lev 4:24 Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make 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
He set the Levites in the LORD’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from the LORD by his prophets. 2Ch 8:141Ch 23:51Ch 15:16-221Ch 16:4-51Ch 16:421Ch 25:1-71Ch 9:332Ch 35:15 The Levites stood with David’s instruments, 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 Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the LORD’s song also began, along with the trumpets and instruments of David king of Israel. 2Ch 23:182Ch 20:212Ch 7:3Psa 136:1Psa 137:3-4 All the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished. Psa 68:24-26Psa 89:15Rev 5:8-14
When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped. 2Ch 20:181Ch 29:20Php 2:10-11Psa 72:11Rom 14:11 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped. Php 4:4Psa 32:11Psa 95:1-21Ch 16:7-36Psa 100:1-2Psa 149:22Sa 23:1-2Psa 95:6
Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the LORD’s house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings. 2Ch 13:9Exo 35:22Exo 35:5Ezr 1:4Lev 1:1-3Lev 23:38Lev 7:12 The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one 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 The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep. But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. 2Ch 35:112Ch 30:31Ch 29:172Ch 29:52Ch 30:16-17Num 18:3Num 18:6-7Num 8:15 Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the LORD’s house was set in order. Exo 29:13Num 15:5-101Ch 16:37-42Gen 35:14Lev 23:13Lev 3:15-161Co 14:40Ezr 6:18 Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because of that which God had prepared for 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