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2 Chronicles 29:1-14

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  • 2 Chronicles 29:1

    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 Chronicles 29:2

    And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:3

    He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:4

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

  • 2 Chronicles 29:5

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:6

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:7

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:8

    Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble,a to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:9

    For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:10

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:11

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:12

    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:

  • 2 Chronicles 29:13

    And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

  • 2 Chronicles 29:14

    And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

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