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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.
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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;
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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.
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And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
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Then Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began
also with the trumpets and with the instruments of David, king of Israel.
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And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpets sounded;
and all
this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
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And when they had finished offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves and worshipped.
30
Moreover, Hezekiah, the king, and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph, the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshipped.