He said to them, “Listen to me, Levites! Sanctify yourselves and sanctify the House of the ETERNAL God of your ancestors, and take the abhorrent things out of the holy place.
For our ancestors trespassed and did what displeased the ETERNAL our God—whom they forsook as they turned their faces away from the dwelling-place of GOD, turning their backs on it.
They also shut the doors of the porch and put out the lights; they did not offer incense and did not make burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
GOD’s wrath was upon Judah and Jerusalem; they were made to be an object of horror, amazement, and hissingahissing See note at Jer. 18.16.—as you see with your own eyes.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
קצף
270
יהוה
26
עליהודה
130
וירושלם
592
ויתנם
506
לזועה
118
לזעוה
118
לשמה
375
ולשרקה
641
כאשר
521
אתם
441
ראים
251
בעיניכם
202
II Chronicles 29:9
Gematria: 2817
והנהנפלואבותינובחרבובנינוובנותינוונשינובשביעלזאת
Our ancestors died by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity on account of this.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והנה
66
נפלו
166
אבותינו
475
בחרב
212
ובנינו
124
ובנותינו
530
ונשינו
422
בשבי
314
עלזאת
508
II Chronicles 29:10
Gematria: 3345
עתהעםלבבילכרותבריתליהוהאלהיישראלוישבממנוחרוןאפו
Now I wish to make a covenant with the ETERNAL God of Israel, whose rage may hopefully be withdrawn from us.
So the Levites set to—Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah of the sons of Kohath; and of the sons of Merari, Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;
The priests went into the House of GOD to purify it, and brought all the impure things they found in the Temple of GOD out into the court of the House of GOD; [there] the Levites received them, to take them outside to Wadi Kidron.
They began the sanctification on the first day of the first month; on the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of GOD. They sanctified the House of GOD for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
Then they went into the palace of King Hezekiah and said, “We have purified the whole House of GOD and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table of the bread of display and all its utensils;
and all the utensils that King Ahaz had befouled during his reign, when he trespassed, we have made ready and sanctified. They are standing in front of the altar of GOD.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואת
407
כלהכלים
155
אשר
501
הזניח
80
המלך
95
אחז
16
במלכותו
504
במעלו
148
הכנו
81
והקדשנו
471
והנם
101
לפני
170
מזבח
57
יהוהס
86
II Chronicles 29:20
Gematria: 2524
וישכםיחזקיהוהמלךויאסףאתשריהעירויעלביתיהוה
King Hezekiah rose early, gathered the officers of the city, and went up to the House of GOD.
They brought seven bulls and seven rams and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a purgation offering for the kingdom and for the Sanctuary and for Judah. He ordered the Aaronite priests to offer them on the altar of GOD.
The cattle were slaughtered, and the priests received the blood and dashed it against the altar; the rams were slaughtered and the blood was dashed against the altar; the lambs were slaughtered and the blood was dashed against the altar.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישחטו
339
הבקר
307
ויקבלו
154
הכהנים
130
אתהדם
450
ויזרקו
329
המזבחה
67
וישחטו
339
האלים
86
ויזרקו
329
הדם
49
המזבחה
67
וישחטו
339
הכבשים
377
ויזרקו
329
הדם
49
המזבחה
67
II Chronicles 29:23
Gematria: 2526
ויגישואתשעיריהחטאתלפניהמלךוהקהלויסמכוידיהםעליהם
The he-goats for the purgation offering were presented to the king and the congregation, who laid their hands upon them.
The priests slaughtered them and performed the purgation rite with the blood against the altar, to expiate for all Israel, for the king had designated the burnt offering and the purgation offering to be for all Israel.
He stationed the Levites in the House of GOD with cymbals and harps and lyres, as David and Gad the king’s seer and Nathan the prophet had ordained, for the ordinance was by GOD through those prophets.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעמד
130
אתהלוים
492
בית
412
יהוה
26
במצלתים
612
בנבלים
134
ובכנרות
684
במצות
538
דויד
24
וגד
13
חזההמלך
115
ונתן
506
הנביא
68
כי
30
בידיהוה
42
המצוה
146
בידנביאיו
95
II Chronicles 29:26
Gematria: 1325
ויעמדוהלויםבכלידוידוהכהניםבחצצרותפ
When the Levites were in place with the instruments of David, and the priests with their trumpets,
Hezekiah gave the order to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of GOD and the trumpets began also, together with the instruments of King David of Israel.
King Hezekiah and the officers ordered the Levites to praise GOD in the words of David and Asaph the seer; so they praised rapturously, and they bowed and prostrated themselves.
Then Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to GOD; come, bring sacrifices of well-being and thanksgiving to the House of GOD.” The congregation brought sacrifices of well-being and thanksgiving, and all who felt so moved brought burnt offerings.
The priests were too few to be able to flay all the burnt offerings, so their kindred, the Levites, reinforced them till the end of the work, and till the [rest of the] priests sanctified themselves. (The Levites were more conscientious about sanctifying themselves than the priests.)
Word-by-Word Analysis
רק
300
הכהנים
130
היו
21
למעט
149
ולא
37
יכלו
66
להפשיט
434
אתכלהעלות
962
ויחזקום
177
אחיהם
64
הלוים
91
עדכלות
530
המלאכה
101
ועד
80
יתקדשו
820
הכהנים
130
כי
30
הלוים
91
ישרי
520
לבב
34
להתקדש
839
מהכהנים
170
II Chronicles 29:35
Gematria: 2588
וגםעלהלרבבחלביהשלמיםובנסכיםלעלהותכוןעבודתביתיהוה
For beside the large number of burnt offerings, there were the fat parts of the sacrifices of well-being and the libations for the burnt offerings; so the service of the House of GOD was properly accomplished.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וגםעלה
154
לרב
232
בחלבי
52
השלמים
425
ובנסכים
188
לעלה
135
ותכון
482
עבודת
482
ביתיהוה
438
II Chronicles 29:36
Gematria: 1966
וישמחיחזקיהווכלהעםעלההכיןהאלהיםלעםכיבפתאםהיההדברפ
Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had enabled the people to accomplish, because it had happened so suddenly.