2 Chronicles 29:5-19

Reforms Begun

5 Then he said to them, "Listen to me, O Levites. ¹Consecrate yourselves now, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry the uncleanness out from the holy place.

6 "For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him and ²turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and have turned their backs.

7 "They have also ³shut the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

8 "Therefore ⁴the wrath of the LORD was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of ⁵hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

9 "For behold, ⁶our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

10 "Now it is in my heart ⁷to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.

11 "My sons, do not be negligent now, for ⁸the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to minister to Him, and to be His ministers and burn incense."

12 Then the Levites arose: ⁹Mahath, the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, from the sons of ¹⁰the Kohathites; and from the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and from the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah;

13 and from the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and from the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

14 and from the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and from the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

15 They assembled their brothers, ¹¹consecrated themselves, and went in ¹²to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the commandment of the king ¹³by the words of the LORD.

16 So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of the LORD they brought out to the court of the house of the LORD. Then the Levites received it to carry out to ¹⁴the Kidron valley.

17 Now they began the consecration ¹⁵on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they entered the porch of the LORD. Then they consecrated the house of the LORD in eight days, and finished on the sixteenth * day of the first month.

18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, "We have cleansed the whole house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all of its utensils, and the table of showbread with all of its utensils.

19 "Moreover, ¹⁶all the utensils which King Ahaz had discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated; and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD."

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2 Chronicles 29:5-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 29

This chapter begins with the good reign of Hezekiah, who upon his accession to the throne opened the doors of the temple, 2Ch 29:1-3, summoned the priests and Levites, and exhorted them to purge the temple, and restore the worship of it, 2Ch 29:4-11, who accordingly set about the work immediately, and cleansed the temple, and, when they had done, reported it to the king, 2Ch 29:12-19 upon which he, with the princes, went into the temple and offered sacrifices, 2Ch 29:20-24 and ordered singers to sing at the offering of burnt offerings, 2Ch 29:25-30 when he and his people offered burnt offerings and peace offerings in great abundance, 2Ch 29:31-36.

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Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. 2 Chronicles 29:15, 34; 2 Chronicles 35:6
2. Ezekiel 8:16
3. 2 Chronicles 28:24
4. 2 Chronicles 24:20
5. Jeremiah 25:9, 18
6. 2 Chr 28:5-8, 17
7. 2 Chronicles 23:16
8. Numbers 3:6; Numbers 8:6
9. 2 Chronicles 31:13
10. Numbers 3:19, 20
11. 2 Chronicles 29:5
12. 1 Chronicles 23:28
13. 2 Chronicles 30:12
14. 2 Chronicles 15:16
15. 2 Chronicles 29:3
16. 2 Chronicles 28:24

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "given"
[b]. Or "Jeuel"
[c]. Or "Jehuel," 1 Chr 15:18, 20
[d]. Or "wadi"
[e]. Lit "to consecrate"