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Chizqiyahu began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Aviyah, the daughter of Zekharyahu.
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He did that which was right in the eyes of the Yahuah, according to all that Daviyd his father had done.
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He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Yahuah, and repaired them.
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He brought in the kohenim and the Leviyim, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,
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and said to them, "Listen to me, you Leviyim! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Yahuah, the Elohim of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place.
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For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of the Yahuah our Elohim, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Yahuah, and turned their backs.
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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 Elohim of Yisra’el.
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Therefore the wrath of the Yahuah was on Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
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For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
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Now it is in my heart to make a Covenant with the Yahuah, the Elohim of Yisra’el, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
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My sons, do not be negligent now; for the Yahuah has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense."
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Then the Leviyim arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azaryahu, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azaryahu the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
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and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaf, Zekharyahu and Mattaniah;
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and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemayahu and Uzziel.
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They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the Yahuah, to cleanse the house of the Yahuah.
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The kohenim went in to the inner part of the house of the Yahuah, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the Yahuah 's Temple into the court of the house of the Yahuah. The Leviyim took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
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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 Yahuah; and they sanctified the house of the Yahuah in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
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Then they went in to Chizqiyahu the king within the palace, and said, "We have cleansed all the house of the Yahuah, and the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and the table of show bread, with all its vessels.
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Moreover all the vessels, which king Achaz in his reign threw away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of the Yahuah."
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Then Chizqiyahu the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of the Yahuah.
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They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Yehudah. He commanded the kohenim the sons of Aharon to offer them on the altar of the Yahuah.
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So they killed the bulls, and the kohenim received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
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They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:
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and the kohenim killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Yisra’el; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Yisra’el.
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He set the Leviyim in the house of the Yahuah with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of Daviyd, and of Gad the king's seer, and Natan the prophet; for the commandment was of the Yahuah by his prophets.
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The Leviyim stood with the instruments of Daviyd, and the kohenim with the trumpets.
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Chizqiyahu commanded to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the Yahuah began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of Daviyd king of Yisra’el.
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All the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
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When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
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Moreover Chizqiyahu the king and the princes commanded the Leviyim to sing praises to the Yahuah with the words of Daviyd, and of Asaf the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Then Chizqiyahu answered, "Now you have consecrated yourselves to the Yahuah; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Yahuah." The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
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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 Yahuah.
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The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep.
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But the kohenim were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Leviyim helped them, until the work was ended, and until the kohenim had sanctified themselves; for the Leviyim were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the kohenim.
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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 house of the Yahuah was set in order.
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Chizqiyahu rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which Elohim had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.