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1 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. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, ac­cord­ing to all that David his fa­ther had done. 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and re­paired them. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gath­ered them to­geth­er into the east street, 5 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. 6 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. 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. 8 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. 9 For, lo, our fa­thers have fall­en by the sword, and our sons and our daugh­ters and our wives are in cap­tiv­i­ty for this. 10 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. 11 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. 12 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: 13 And of the sons of Eliza­phan; Shim­ri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of As­aph; Zechari­ah, and Mat­ta­ni­ah: 14 And of the sons of He­man; Je­hiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Je­duthun; She­ma­iah, and Uzziel. 15 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. 16 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. 17 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. 18 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. 19 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. 20 Then Hezeki­ah the king rose ear­ly, and gath­ered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. 21 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. 22 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. 23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin of­fer­ing be­fore the king and the con­gre­ga­tion; and they laid their hands upon them: 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. 25 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. 26 And the Levites stood with the in­stru­ments of David, and the priests with the trum­pets. 27 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. 28 And all the con­gre­ga­tion wor­shipped, and the singers sang, and the trum­peters sound­ed: and all this continued un­til the burnt of­fer­ing was fin­ished. 29 And when they had made an end of of­fer­ing, the king and all that were pre­sent with him bowed them­selves, and wor­shipped. 30 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. 31 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. 32 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. 33 And the con­se­crat­ed things were six hun­dred oxen and three thou­sand sheep. 34 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. 35 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. 36 And Hezeki­ah re­joiced, and all the peo­ple, that God had pre­pared the peo­ple: for the thing was done sud­den­ly.