1Hezekiah 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 18:1-31 Chr 3:132 Chr 26:5Hos 1:1Isa 1:1Isa 8:2Matt 1:9-10Mic 1:1
2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 28:12 Chr 34:2
3He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 28:242 Chr 29:7Matt 6:332 Chr 34:32 Kgs 16:14-18Eccl 9:10Gal 1:16Ps 101:3
4And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 32:6Jer 19:2Neh 3:29
5And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 35:61 Cor 3:16-171 Chr 15:122 Chr 34:3-8Ezek 8:9-182 Chr 29:15-162 Chr 29:342 Cor 7:12 Cor 6:16Eph 5:26-27
6For 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 8:16Jer 2:272 Chr 28:2-42 Chr 28:23-252 Chr 34:21Dan 9:16Ezra 5:12Ezra 9:7Jer 16:19Jer 2:13
7Also 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 28:24Lev 24:2-82 Chr 29:32 Kgs 16:17-18Mal 1:10
8Wherefore 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 25:18Jer 25:92 Chr 24:18Deut 28:25Jer 19:8Jer 29:181 Kgs 9:82 Chr 34:24-252 Chr 36:14-16Deut 28:15-20
9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 28:172 Chr 28:5-8Lam 5:7Lev 26:17
10Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 50:52 Chr 23:16Ezra 10:32 Chr 15:12-132 Chr 34:30-322 Chr 6:7-82 Cor 8:52 Kgs 23:262 Kgs 23:3Jer 34:15
11My 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 10:8Num 8:6-14Num 18:2-7Num 3:6-9Gal 6:7-8Num 16:35-40
12Then 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 15:5-71 Chr 23:7-231 Chr 6:16-211 Chr 6:442 Chr 31:13Exod 6:16-25Num 3:17Num 3:19-20Num 4:2-20
13And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 6:391 Chr 15:81 Chr 15:171 Chr 25:2Lev 10:4
14And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 6:331 Chr 15:191 Chr 25:11 Chr 25:31 Chr 25:6
15And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 23:282 Chr 30:122 Chr 29:5
16And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 15:161 Kgs 6:19-202 Chr 3:82 Chr 5:72 Kgs 23:4-62 Sam 15:23Exod 26:33-34Ezek 36:29Heb 9:2-8Heb 9:23-24
17Now 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 28:111 Kgs 6:32 Chr 29:32 Chr 29:72 Chr 3:4Exod 12:2-8
18Then 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 13:112 Chr 4:12 Chr 4:7-8
19Moreover 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 28:24
20Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 24:4Gen 22:3Jer 25:4Josh 6:12
21And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 4:3-14Ezek 45:23Job 42:81 Chr 15:26Ezra 8:35Num 23:1Num 23:14Num 23:29Num 15:22-24
22So 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 4:18Lev 8:19Lev 8:24Heb 9:21-22Lev 1:5Lev 4:34Lev 4:7Lev 8:14-15
23And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 4:15Lev 1:4Lev 4:24
24And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Cor 5:18-21Col 1:20-21Dan 9:24Ezek 45:15Ezek 45:17Heb 2:17Lev 14:20Lev 4:13-35Lev 6:30Lev 8:15
25And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 8:141 Chr 23:51 Chr 15:16-221 Chr 16:4-51 Chr 16:421 Chr 25:1-71 Chr 9:332 Chr 35:152 Sam 24:112 Chr 30:12
26And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 23:51 Chr 15:24Amos 6:51 Chr 16:62 Chr 5:12-13Isa 38:20Josh 6:4-9Num 10:10Num 10:8Ps 150:3-5
27And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 23:182 Chr 20:212 Chr 7:3Ps 136:1Ps 137:3-4
28And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 68:24-26Ps 89:15Rev 5:8-14
29And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 20:181 Chr 29:20Phil 2:10-11Ps 72:11Rom 14:11
30Moreover 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Phil 4:4Ps 32:11-33:1Ps 95:1-21 Chr 16:7-36Ps 100:1-2Ps 149:22 Sam 23:1-2Ps 95:6
31Then 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 13:9Exod 35:22Exod 35:5Ezra 1:4Lev 1:1-3Lev 23:38Lev 7:12
32And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 29:211 Kgs 3:41 Kgs 8:63Ezra 6:17
33And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
34But 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 35:112 Chr 30:31 Chr 29:172 Chr 29:52 Chr 30:16-17Num 18:3Num 18:6-7Num 8:15Num 8:19Ps 26:6
35And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 29:13Num 15:5-101 Chr 16:37-42Gen 35:14Lev 23:13Lev 3:15-161 Cor 14:40Ezra 6:18
36And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 29:91 Thess 3:8-9Acts 2:41Ezra 6:22Prov 16:1Ps 10:171 Chr 29:17-182 Chr 30:12