2 Chronicles 29:7

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

2 Chronicles 29:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 29:7

Also they have shut up the doors of the porch
So that there was no entering into the temple, ( 2 Chronicles 28:24 )

and put out the lamps;
for the priests not being able to go in morning and evening to light them, and dress them, they in course went out; the Jews say ^F14, that on the eighteenth of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, the western lamp was extinct in the days of Ahaz, for which a fast was kept on that day:

and have not burnt incense, nor offered burnt offerings in the holy
place unto the God of Israel;
but had done these in the high places to idols, ( 2 Chronicles 28:3 2 Chronicles 28:4 2 Chronicles 28:24 2 Chronicles 28:25 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2.

2 Chronicles 29:7 In-Context

5 He said to them, "Listen to me, Levites! Sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and carry out the filth from the holy place.

6 For our ancestors have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God; they have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the dwelling of the Lord, and turned their backs.

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

8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord came upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

9 Our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.