2 Chronicles 29:31 — Meaning and Application

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“Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings. {consecrated...: or, filled your hand}”

2 Chronicles 29:31

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And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped. {present: Heb. found}

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 their heads and worshipped.

Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings. {consecrated...: or, filled your hand}

And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, {and} two hundred lambs: all these {were} for a burnt offering to the LORD.

And the consecrated things {were} six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

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2 Chronicles 29:1

"Hezekiah began to reign {when he was} five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah."

2 Chronicles 29:2

"And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done."

2 Chronicles 29:3

"He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them."

2 Chronicles 29:4

"And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,"

2 Chronicles 29:5

"And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy {place}."

2 Chronicles 29:6

"For our fathers have trespassed, and done {that which was} evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned {their} backs. {turned their...: Heb. given the neck}"

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