These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 29
Tanakh 36 verses
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began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in ; and his mother’s was Abijah the daughter of .
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And he did that which was right in the eyes of , according to all that his father had done.
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- 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of , and repaired them.
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And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east;
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- 5 and said unto them: ‘Hear me, ye Levites: now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of , the of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the place.
- 6 For our fathers have acted treacherously, and done that which was evil in the sight of our , and have forsaken Him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of , and turned their backs.
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Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the place unto the of .
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- 8 Wherefore the wrath of was upon and , and He hath delivered them to be a horror, an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
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- 10 Now it is in my to make a with , the of , that His fierce anger may turn away from us.
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My sons, be not now negligent; for hath chosen you to stand before Him, to minister unto Him, and that ye should be His ministers, and offer unto Him.’
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- 12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
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and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph, and Mattaniah;
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and of the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
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And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the of the by the words of , to cleanse the house of .
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- 16 And the priests went in unto the inner part of the house of , to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the of into the court of the house of . And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
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Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of ; and they sanctified the house of in eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
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Then they went in to the within [the palace], and said: ‘We have cleansed all the house of , even the of burnt-, with all the vessels thereof, and the table of showbread, with all the vessels thereof.
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Moreover all the vessels, which Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he acted treacherously, have we prepared and sanctified; and, behold, they are before the of .’
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Then the arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of .
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- 21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he-goats, for a sin- for the and for the and for . And he commanded the priests the sons of to offer them on the of .
- 22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the , and dashed it against the ; and they killed the rams, and dashed the against the ; they killed also the lambs, and dashed the against the .
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And they brought near the he-goats for the sin- before the and the congregation, and they laid their hands upon them;
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- 24 and the priests killed them, and they made a sin- with their upon the , to make for all ; for the commanded that the burnt- and the sin- should be made for all .
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And he set the Levites in the house of with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the of , and of the king’s , and Nathan the ; for the was of by His prophets.
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- 26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of , and the priests with the trumpets.
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And commanded to offer the burnt- upon the . And when the burnt- began, the song of began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of of .
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And all the congregation prostrated themselves, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt- was finished.
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And when they had made an end of , the and all that were present with him bowed themselves and prostrated themselves.
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Moreover the and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises unto with the words of , and of Asaph the . And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.
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Then answered and said: ‘Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto , come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of .’ And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing brought burnt-offerings.
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And the number of the burnt-offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt- to .
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- 33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
- 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings; wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in to sanctify themselves than the priests.
- 35 And also the burnt-offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the -offerings, and the drink-offerings for every burnt-. So the service of the house of was firmly established.
- 36 And rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.