1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old,
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the
4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in
7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the
8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and
9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and
10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons
15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and
16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify,
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast
20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of
21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven
22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood,
23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals,
26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the
28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that
30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated
32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation
33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three
34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all
35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared