2 Chronicles 29:23

23 Finally they took the goats to the king and to the other worshipers, who laid their hands on them.

2 Chronicles 29:23 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 29:23

And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering
before the king and the congregation
Which were to make atonement for the sins of both: and they laid their hands on them;
signifying thereby that they were vicarious sacrifices to be offered up in their own room and stead, and that they deserved to die, as these creatures would: transferring as it were hereby their sins unto them, for which they were to be sacrificed, and to make atonement, as an emblem of the imputation of the sins of the Lord's people to Christ, sacrificed in their stead.

2 Chronicles 29:23 In-Context

21 As an offering to take away the sins of the royal family and of the people of Judah and to purify the Temple, they took seven bulls, seven sheep, seven lambs, and seven goats. The king told the priests, who were descendants of Aaron, to offer the animals as sacrifices on the altar.

22 The priests killed the bulls first, then the sheep, and then the lambs, and sprinkled the blood of each sacrifice on the altar.

23 Finally they took the goats to the king and to the other worshipers, who laid their hands on them.

24 Then the priests killed the goats and poured their blood on the altar as a sacrifice to take away the sin of all the people, for the king had commanded that burnt offerings and sin offerings be made for all Israel.

25 The king followed the instructions that the Lord had given to King David through Gad, the king's prophet, and through the prophet Nathan; he stationed Levites in the Temple, with harps and cymbals,