15
And they gathered their brethren and sanctified themselves and entered in, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
16
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse
it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took
it, to carry
it out abroad into the Brook Kidron.
17
Now they began to sanctify on the first
day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the LORD; and they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
18
Then they went in to Hezekiah, the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD and the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and the showbread table with all its vessels.
19
Likewise we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels, which King Ahaz in his reign cast away in his transgression, and, behold, they
are before the altar of the LORD.
20
Then Hezekiah, the king, rose early and gathered the rulers of the city and went up to the house of the LORD.
21
And they offered seven bullocks and seven rams and seven lambs and seven he goats, for the sin of the kingdom and of the sanctuary and of Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer
them on the altar of the LORD.
22
So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood and sprinkled
it on the altar; likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar; they also killed the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23
And they brought forth the he goats of the sin before the king and the congregation, and they laid their hands upon them;
24
and the priests killed them, and they removed the sin with their blood upon the altar, to reconcile all Israel, for the king commanded
that the burnt offering and
the atonement for sin
should be offered for all Israel.
25
And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad, the king’s seer, and of Nathan, the prophet, for that commandment
was by the hand of the LORD, by the hand of his prophets.