Chronicles II 29:19

19 and all the vessels which king Achaz polluted in his reign, in his apostasy, we have prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.

Chronicles II 29:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 29:19

Moreover, all the vessels which King Ahaz in his reign did
cast away in his transgression
Not that he threw them away, being valuable, as made of gold and silver; but, as Kimchi interprets it, he removed them, and converted them to idolatrous uses; or, as the Targum, he defiled or profaned them, and made them abominable by strange idols: have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar
of the Lord;
they had cleaned them, and fitted them for service, and had put them where they were ready for use; though the Targum is,

``we have laid them aside, and hid them, and prepared others in their room,''

as unfit for divine service; and which is the sense of other Jewish writers ^F15.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 54. 2.

Chronicles II 29:19 In-Context

17 And began on the first day, on the new moon of the first month, to purify, and on the eighth day of the month they entered into the temple of the Lord: and they purified the house of the Lord in eight days; and on the thirteenth day of the first month they finished .

18 And they went in to king Ezekias, and said, We have purified all the things in the house of the Lord, the altar of whole-burnt-offering, and its vessels, and the table of shew-bread, and its vessels;

19 and all the vessels which king Achaz polluted in his reign, in his apostasy, we have prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.

20 And king Ezekias rose early in the morning, and gathered the chief men of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.

21 And he brought seven calves, seven rams, seven lambs, seven kids of goats for a sin-offering, for the kingdom, and for the holy things, and for Israel: and he told the priests the sons of Aaron to go up to the altar of the Lord.