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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 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 s
erve 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.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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