Hezekiah Brings an Offering

²⁰ Then King Hezekiah arose early and gathered the princes of the city and went up to the house of Yahweh. ²¹ And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats ^(A)for a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. And he ordered the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of Yahweh. ²² So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it on the altar. They also slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; they slaughtered the lambs also and ^(B)splashed the blood on the altar. ²³ Then they had the male goats of the sin offering approach before the king and the assembly, and ^(C)they laid their hands on them. ²⁴ And the priests slaughtered them and purged the altar with their blood ^(D)to atone for all Israel, for the king ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

^25 (E)He then caused the Levites to stand in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, ^(F)according to the command of David and of ^(G)Gad the king’s seer, and of ^(H)Nathan the prophet; for the command was from Yahweh by the hand of His prophets. ²⁶ And the Levites stood with ^(I)the musical instruments of David, and ^(J)the priests with the trumpets. ²⁷ Then Hezekiah said to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, ^(K)the song to Yahweh also began with the trumpets, ^[a]accompanied by the instruments of David, king of Israel. ²⁸ While the whole assembly worshiped, the singers also sang and the trumpets sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was completed.

²⁹ Now at the completion of the burnt offerings, ^(L)the king and all who were present with him bowed down and worshiped. ³⁰ Moreover, King Hezekiah and the officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David and Asaph the seer. ^(M)So they sang praises with gladness, and bowed down and worshiped.

³¹ Then Hezekiah answered and said, “^(N)Now that you have ^[b]become ordained to Yahweh, approach and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Yahweh.” And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and ^(O)all those who were willing of heart brought burnt offerings. ³² And the number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh. ³³ And the holy things were 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep. ³⁴ But the priests were too few, so that they were unable to skin all the burnt offerings; ^(P)therefore their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was completed and until the other priests had set themselves apart as holy. For ^(Q)the Levites were more upright of heart to set themselves apart as holy than the priests. ³⁵ There were also ^[c](R)many burnt offerings with ^(S)the fat of the peace offerings and with ^(T)the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of Yahweh was established again. ³⁶ Then Hezekiah and all the people were glad over what God had prepared for the people, because the thing came about suddenly.