The Koine Bible

And Hezekiah reigned, being twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Abba, daughter of Zechariah.

And he did what was right before the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.

And it came to pass, when he had stood over his kingdom, in the first month he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.

And he brought in the priests and the Levites and stationed them in the eastern side.

And he said to them, Hear, O Levites: now consecrate yourselves and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and cast out the uncleanness from the holy things.

For our fathers have turned away and have done evil before the Lord, and have forsaken him and have turned away their face from the tent of the Lord and have given the neck

And they shut the doors of the temple and quenched the lamps and did not burn incense and did not offer whole burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel

And the Lord was angry with a wrath against Judah and against Jerusalem, and he gave them up to dismay and to destruction and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

And behold, your fathers have fallen by the sword, and your sons and your daughters and your wives are in captivity in a land not theirs, as indeed it is now

Now therefore it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, and he will turn away the anger of his wrath from us

And now do not be slack, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him, to minister, and to be ministering to him and burning incense.

And the Levites arose: Maath son of Amasi and Joel son of Azariou, from the sons of Kohath; and from the sons of Merari, Kish son of Abdi and Azarias son of Iaellel; and from the sons of the Gershonites, Joa son of Zemmath and Jodan son of Joacha

and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shambri and Jeiel, and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah

and of the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei, and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel

And they gathered their brothers, and they sanctified themselves according to the command of the king, by the ordinance of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.

And the priests went inside into the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they cast out all the uncleanness that was found in the house of the Lord and into the court of the house of the Lord, and the Levites received it to carry it out to the Kidron brook outside.

And they began on the first day, the new moon of the first month, to cleanse, and on the eighth day of the month they entered into the house of the Lord, and they cleansed the house of the Lord in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

And they went inside to Hezekiah the king and said, We have purified all the things in the house of the Lord, the altar of the burnt offering and its vessels, and the table of the presentation and its vessels.

And all the vessels which Ahaz the king defiled in his reign in his apostasy, we have prepared and purified; behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.

And Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the rulers of the city and went up to the house of the Lord

And he brought up seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, seven male goats for sin, for the kingdom and for the holy things and for Israel, and he said to the sons of Aaron, the priests, to go up onto the altar of the Lord

And they slaughtered the calves, and the priests received the blood and poured it upon the altar, and they slaughtered the rams and poured the blood upon the altar, and they slaughtered the lambs and poured the blood around the altar

And they brought the male goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.

And the priests slaughtered them and made atonement with their blood upon the altar, and made atonement for all Israel, because for all Israel the king said, the burnt offering and the sin offerings.

And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals and with lutes and with harps, according to the command of David the king and Gad the seer for the king and Nathan the prophet, because by command of the Lord the ordinance was by the hand of the prophets.

And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

And Hezekiah said to offer up the whole burnt offering on the altar, and when they began to offer the whole burnt offering, they began to sing to the Lord, and the trumpets, with the instruments of David king of Israel.

And all the assembly worshiped, and the singers singing, and the trumpets sounding, until the burnt offering was completed.

And when they had finished offering, the king bowed and all who were found, and they worshiped.

And Hezekiah the king and the rulers said to the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and Asaph the prophet; and they praised with gladness and fell and worshiped.

And Hezekiah answered and said, Now you have filled your hands for the Lord; bring near and bring sacrifices and praise-offerings to the house of the Lord. And the assembly brought sacrifices and praise-offerings to the house of the Lord, and everyone, willing in heart, burnt offerings.

And the number of the burnt offering which the assembly offered up was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs for a burnt offering to the Lord; all these things.

And the consecrated bulls were six hundred, sheep three thousand.

But the priests were few, and they were not able to flay the whole burnt offering, and their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was completed, and until the priests had consecrated themselves, for the Levites had consecrated themselves more willingly than the priests.

And the burnt offering was abundant with the fat pieces of the completion of the saving offering and of the drink offerings of the burnt offering, and the work was set in order in the house of the Lord

And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had prepared the people, for the matter came about suddenly.