2 Chronicles 29
New English Translation
Hezekiah Consecrates the Temple
29 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother[a] was Abijah,[b] the daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.[c]
3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them. 4 He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side. 5 He said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the Lord God of your ancestors.[d] Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean. 6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of[e] the Lord our God and abandoned him. They turned away[f] from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him.[g] 7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. 8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn,[h] as you can see with your own eyes. 9 Look, our fathers died violently[i] and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off[j] because of this. 10 Now I intend[k] to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.[l] 11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him,[m] to be his ministers,[n] and offer sacrifices.”[o]
12 The following Levites prepared to carry out the king’s orders:[p]
From the Kohathites: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;
from the Merarites: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;
from the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;
13 from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel;
from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;
14 from the descendants of Heman: Jehiel and Shimei;
from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word[q] of the Lord. 16 The priests then entered the Lord’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside.[r] The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley. 17 On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the Lord’s temple.[s] For eight more days they consecrated the Lord’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished. 18 They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment. 19 We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the Lord.”
20 Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the Lord’s temple. 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah.[t] The king[u] told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Lord. 22 They slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it on the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; next they slaughtered the lambs and splashed the blood on the altar. 23 Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them. 24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed[v] that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.
25 Hezekiah[w] stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments just as David, Gad the king’s prophet,[x] and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.) 26 The Levites had[y] David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets. 27 Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel. 28 The entire assembly worshiped, as the singers sang and the trumpeters played. They continued until the burnt sacrifice was completed.
29 When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped. 30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms[z] of David and Asaph the prophet.[aa] So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped. 31 Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves[ab] to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings[ac] to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so[ad] brought burnt sacrifices.
32 The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord,[ae] 33 and 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep[af] were consecrated. 34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals,[ag] so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)[ah] 35 There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted.[ai] 36 Hezekiah and all the people were happy about what God had done[aj] for them,[ak] for it had been done quickly.[al]
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:2 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:5 tn Heb “fathers.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 tn Heb “turned their faces.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 tn Heb “and turned the back.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:9 tn Heb “fell by the sword.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:9 tn Heb “are in captivity.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:10 tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:10 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.
- 2 Chronicles 29:11 tn That is, to conduct the religious rituals directed to the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 29:11 tn That is, to be his ministers for the nation.
- 2 Chronicles 29:11 tn Heb “ones who cause [sacrifices] to go up in smoke.” The Hiphil form of קָטַר (qatar) can refer specifically to offering incense (e.g. 2 Chr 26:19; 32:12), but it may also be a general word for making sacrifices (e.g. 1 Chr 6:49). If it refers to burning incense, then the altar of incense in the Holy place of the tabernacle may be in view. Otherwise it is more general (they sacrifice animals later in this chapter, 2 Chr 29:21-24) and includes making sacrifices as well as offering incense.
- 2 Chronicles 29:12 tn Heb “and the Levites arose.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:15 tn Heb “words” (plural).
- 2 Chronicles 29:16 tn Heb “in the temple of the Lord.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:17 tn Heb “porch of the Lord.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 sn Perhaps these terms refer metonymically to the royal court, the priests and Levites, and the people, respectively.
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Chronicles 29:24 tn Heb “said.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 tn Or “seer.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:26 tn Heb “stood with” (i.e., stood holding).
- 2 Chronicles 29:30 tn Heb “with the words.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:30 tn Or “seer.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 tn Heb “filled your hand.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 tn Or “tokens of thanks.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 tn Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:32 tn Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the Lord were all these.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:33 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (tsoʾn) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but there is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:35 tn Or “established.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:36 tn Heb “prepared.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:36 tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun “them” has been used here for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
- 2 Chronicles 29:36 tn Heb “for quickly was the matter.”
2 Paralipomeno 29
Ang Dating Biblia (1905)
29 Si Ezechias ay nagpasimulang maghari nang siya'y dalawangpu't limang taon: at siya'y naghari na dalawangpu't siyam na taon sa Jerusalem, at ang pangalan ng kaniyang ina ay Abia na anak ni Zacharias.
2 At siya'y gumawa ng matuwid sa harap ng mga mata ng Panginoon, ayon sa lahat na ginawa ni David na kaniyang magulang.
3 Siya'y nagbukas sa unang taon ng kaniyang paghahari, na unang buwan, ng mga pinto ng bahay ng Panginoon, at mga hinusay.
4 At kaniyang ipinasok ang mga saserdote at mga Levita, at pinisan sila sa maluwang na dako sa silanganan,
5 At sinabi sa kanila, Dinggin ninyo ako, ninyong mga Levita; ngayo'y mangagpakabanal kayo, at italaga ninyo ang bahay ng Panginoon, ang Dios ng inyong mga magulang, at ilabas ninyo ang dumi mula sa dakong banal.
6 Sapagka't ang ating mga magulang ay nagsisalangsang, at nagsigawa ng masama sa paningin ng Panginoon nating Dios, at pinabayaan siya, at itinalikod ang kanilang mga mukha sa tahanan ng Panginoon, at nagsitalikod.
7 Kanila ring isinara ang mga pinto ng portiko, at pinatay ang mga ilawan, at hindi nagsipagsunog ng kamangyan ni nagsipaghandog man ng mga handog na susunugin sa dakong banal sa Dios ng Israel.
8 Kaya't ang pagiinit ng Panginoon ay dumating sa Juda at Jerusalem, at ibinigay niya sila upang hamakin saa't saan man, upang maging katigilan, at kasutsutan, gaya ng inyong nakikita ng inyong mga mata.
9 Sapagka't narito, ang ating mga magulang ay nangabuwal sa pamamagitan ng tabak, at ang ating mga anak na lalake at babae at ang ating mga asawa ay nangasa pagkabihag dahil dito.
10 Nasa akin ngang puso na makipagtipan sa Panginoon, sa Dios ng Israel, upang ang kaniyang malaking galit ay maalis sa atin.
11 Mga anak ko, huwag kayong mangagpabaya: sapagka't pinili kayo ng Panginoon upang magsitayo sa harap niya, upang magsipangasiwa sa kaniya, at kayo'y maging kaniyang mga tagapangasiwa, at mangagsunog kayo ng kamangyan.
12 Nang magkagayo'y nagsitindig ang mga Levita, si Mahath na anak ni Amasai, at si Joel na anak ni Azarias sa mga anak ng mga Coathita: at sa mga anak ni Merari, si Cis na anak ni Abdi, at si Azarias na anak ni Jehaleleel: at sa mga Gersonita, si Joah na anak ni Zimma, at si Eden na anak ni Joah:
13 At sa mga anak ni Elisaphan, si Simri, at si Jehiel: at sa mga anak ni Asaph, si Zacharias at si Mathanias:
14 At sa mga anak ni Heman, si Jehiel at si Simi: at sa mga anak ni Jeduthun, si Semeias at si Uzziel.
15 At pinisan nila ang kanilang mga kapatid, at nangagpakabanal, at nagsipasok ayon sa utos ng hari sa pamamagitan ng mga salita ng Panginoon, upang linisin ang bahay ng Panginoon.
16 At ang mga saserdote ay nagsipasok sa pinakaloob ng bahay ng Panginoon, upang linisin, at inilabas ang lahat na dumi na kanilang nasumpungan sa templo ng Panginoon. At kinuha ng mga Levita upang ilabas sa batis ng Cedron.
17 Sila nga'y nagpasimula na mangagpakabanal nang unang araw ng unang buwan, at nang ikawalong araw ng buwan ay nagsiparoon sila sa portiko ng Panginoon; at kanilang itinalaga ang bahay ng Panginoon sa walong araw; at sa ikalabing anim na araw ng unang buwan ay kanilang niwakasan.
18 Nang magkagayo'y kanilang pinasok si Ezechias na hari, sa loob ng palasio, at kanilang sinabi, Aming nilinis ang buong bahay ng Panginoon, at ang dambana ng handog na susunugin, pati ng lahat na kasangkapan niyaon, at ang dulang ng tinapay na handog, pati ng lahat na kasangkapan niyaon.
19 Bukod dito'y lahat na kasangkapan, na inihagis ng haring Achaz sa kaniyang paghahari, nang siya'y sumalangsang, aming inihanda at itinalaga, at, narito, nangasa harap ng dambana ng Panginoon.
20 Nang magkagayo'y si Ezechias na hari ay bumangong maaga, at pinisan ang mga prinsipe ng bayan, at sumampa sa bahay ng Panginoon.
21 At sila'y nagsipagdala ng pitong baka, at pitong tupa, at pitong kordero, at pitong kambing na lalake, na pinakahandog dahil sa kasalanan sa ikagagaling ng kaharian, at ng santuario, at ng Juda. At siya'y nagutos sa mga saserdote na mga anak ni Aaron na ihandog ang mga yaon sa dambana ng Panginoon.
22 Sa gayo'y kanilang pinatay ang mga baka, at tinanggap ng mga saserdote ang dugo, at iniwisik sa dambana: at kanilang pinatay ang mga tupa, at iwinisik ang dugo sa ibabaw ng dambana: pinatay rin nila ang mga kordero, at iniwisik ang dugo sa ibabaw ng dambana.
23 At kanilang inilapit ang mga kambing na lalake na pinakahandog dahil sa kasalanan sa harap ng hari at ng kapisanan; at ipinatong nila ang kanilang mga kamay sa mga yaon:
24 At mga pinatay ng mga saserdote, at sila'y nagsigawa ng isang handog dahil sa kasalanan sa pamamagitan ng dugo ng mga yaon sa ibabaw ng dambana, upang itubos sa buong Israel: sapagka't iniutos ng hari na ang handog na susunugin at ang handog dahil sa kasalanan ay gagawin para sa buong Israel.
25 At kaniyang inilagay ang mga Levita sa bahay ng Panginoon na may mga simbalo, may mga salterio, at may mga alpa, ayon sa utos ni David, at ni Gad na tagakita ng hari, at ni Nathan na propeta: sapagka't ang utos ay mula sa Panginoon sa pamamagitan ng kaniyang mga propeta.
26 At ang mga Levita ay nagsitayo na may mga panugtog ni David, at ang mga saserdote na may mga pakakak.
27 At si Ezechias ay nagutos na maghandog ng handog na susunugin sa ibabaw ng dambana. At nang ang handog na susunugin ay pasimulan, ang awit sa Panginoon ay pinasimulan naman, at ang mga pakakak, pati ang mga panugtog ni David na hari sa Israel.
28 At ang buong kapisanan ay sumamba, at ang mga mangaawit ay nagsiawit, at ang mga manghihihip ng pakakak ay nangagpatunog; lahat ng ito ay ipinagpatuloy hanggang sa ang handog na susunugin ay natapos.
29 At nang sila'y makatapos ng paghahandog ang hari at ang lahat na nakaharap na kasama niya ay nagsiyukod at nagsisamba.
30 Bukod dito'y iniutos ni Ezechias na hari at ng mga prinsipe sa mga Levita na magsiawit ng mga pagpuri sa Panginoon sa pamamagitan ng mga salita ni David, at ni Asaph na tagakita. At sila'y nagsiawit ng mga pagpuri na may kasayahan, at kanilang itinungo ang kanilang mga ulo at nagsisamba.
31 Nang magkagayo'y sumagot si Ezechias na nagsabi, Ngayo'y nagsitalaga kayo sa Panginoon, kayo'y magsilapit at mangagdala ng mga hain at mga handog na pasalamat sa bahay ng Panginoon: At nagdala ng mga hain at ng mga handog na pasalamat ang kapisanan; at lahat ng may kusang kalooban ay nagsipagdala ng mga handog na susunugin.
32 At ang bilang ng mga handog na susunugin na dinala ng kapisanan, pitongpung baka, isang daang tupang lalake, dalawang daang kordero: lahat ng mga ito ay pinakahandog na susunugin sa Panginoon.
33 At ang mga bagay na itinalaga ay anim na raang baka at tatlong libong tupa.
34 Nguni't ang mga saserdote ay naging kakaunti, na anopa't hindi nila malapnusan ang lahat na handog na susunugin kaya't tinulungan sila ng kanilang mga kapatid na mga Levita, hanggang sa natapos ang gawain, at hanggang sa nangagpakabanal ang mga saserdote; sapagka't ang mga Levita ay matuwid ang puso na mangagpakabanal na higit kay sa mga saserdote.
35 At ang mga handog na susunugin naman ay sagana, pati ang taba ng mga handog tungkol sa kapayapaan, at pati ang mga handog na inumin na ukol sa bawa't handog na susunugin. Sa gayo'y ang paglilingkod sa bahay ng Panginoon ay naayos.
36 At si Ezechias ay nagalak, at ang buong bayan, dahil sa inihanda ng Dios ang bayan: sapagka't ang bagay ay biglang nagawa.
2 Chronicles 29
Common English Bible
Hezekiah rules
29 Hezekiah became king when he was 25 years old, and he ruled for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah; she was Zechariah’s daughter. 2 He did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, just as his ancestor David had done. 3 In the very first year of his rule, during the first month, Hezekiah reopened the doors of the Lord’s temple, having repaired them. 4 Then he brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the eastern square.
5 “Listen to me, you Levites!” he said. “Make yourselves holy so you can make holy the temple of the Lord God of your ancestors by removing from the sanctuary any impure thing. 6 Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the Lord our God’s eyes. They abandoned him, they ignored the Lord’s dwelling, and they defied him. 7 They even closed the doors of the entrance hall, snuffed out the lamps, and stopped burning incense and offering entirely burned offerings in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. 8 This angered the Lord so much that he made Judah and Jerusalem an object of terror and horror, something people hiss at, as you can see with your own eyes. 9 That’s why our ancestors died violent deaths, while our sons, daughters, and wives were taken captive. 10 But now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord, Israel’s God, so God will no longer be angry with us. 11 Don’t be careless, my sons! The Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence to serve him, so that you can be his servants and burn incense to him.”
12 Then the following Levites got up:
from the descendants of the Kohathites: Mahath, Amasai’s son, and Joel, Azariah’s son;
from the descendants of Merari: Kish, Abdi’s son, and Azariah, Jehallelel’s son;
from the Gershonites: Joah, Zimmah’s son, and Eden, Joah’s son;
13 from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeuel;
from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;
14 from the descendants of Heman: Jehuel and Shimei;
and from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 These men gathered their relatives, made themselves holy, and went in to purify the Lord’s temple by obeying the king’s command as the Lord had told him. 16 The priests went in to purify the inner portion of the Lord’s temple. They brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple all the impurities they discovered inside. Then the Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley. 17 They began to make things holy on the first day of the first month.[a] On the eighth day of the month they reached the Lord’s entrance hall. They made holy the Lord’s temple for eight days, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
18 Then they went before King Hezekiah. “We have purified the Lord’s entire temple,” they said, “and the altar for the entirely burned offering together with all its equipment, and the table for the stacks of bread together with all its equipment. 19 We have also restored and made holy all the items King Ahaz threw out during his rule in his unfaithfulness. They are now before the Lord’s altar.”
Hezekiah rededicates the temple
20 Early the next morning Hezekiah gathered the city leaders and went to the Lord’s temple. 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, and seven lambs, along with seven male goats, for a purification offering on behalf of the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. Hezekiah ordered the priests, Aaron’s sons, to offer them up on the Lord’s altar. 22 When they slaughtered the bulls, the priests took the blood and splashed it against the altar. Next they slaughtered the rams and splashed their blood against the altar, and also slaughtered the lambs, splashing their blood against the altar as well. 23 Finally, they brought the goats for the purification offering before the king and the assembly. After laying their hands on them, 24 the priests slaughtered them and smeared the blood on the altar as a purification offering to take away the sin of all Israel, because the king had specifically ordered that the entirely burned sacrifice and the purification offering should be on behalf of all Israel. 25 Hezekiah had the Levites stand in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and zithers, just as the Lord had ordered through David, the king’s seer Gad, and the prophet Nathan. 26 While the Levites took their places holding David’s instruments, and the priests their trumpets, 27 Hezekiah ordered the entirely burned offering to be offered up on the altar. As they began to offer the entirely burned offering, the Lord’s song also began, accompanied by the trumpets and the other instruments of Israel’s King David. 28 The whole congregation worshipped with singing choirs and blaring trumpets until the end of the entirely burned offering. 29 After the entirely burned offering was complete, the king and all who were with him bowed down in worship. 30 Then King Hezekiah and the leaders ordered the Levites to praise the Lord by using the words of David and the seer Asaph. They did so joyously; then they bowed down in worship too.
31 “Now that you have dedicated yourselves to the Lord,” King Hezekiah told them, “bring sacrificial thank offerings to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrificial thank offerings, with some people volunteering to provide entirely burned offerings. 32 All in all, the congregation brought seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs as entirely burned offerings for the Lord, 33 as well as six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep as holy offerings. 34 Unfortunately, there weren’t enough priests to skin all these entirely burned offerings. So their relatives the Levites (who had been more conscientious about preparing themselves than the priests) stepped in and helped them until the work was done or additional priests had made themselves holy. 35 In addition to the wealth of entirely burned offerings, there was the fat of the well-being sacrifices and drink offerings accompanying the entirely burned offerings. In this way, the service of the Lord’s temple was restored, 36 and Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced at what God had done for them, since it had happened so quickly.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 29:17 March–April, Nisan
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