1Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.stylus2 Kings 18:1, 2 Kings 18:3, 2 Kings 18:1, 2 Kings 18:3, 2 Chronicles 26:52And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.stylus2 Chronicles 34:2, 2 Chronicles 28:1, 2 Chronicles 34:2, 2 Chronicles 28:13In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.stylus2 Chronicles 28:24, 2 Chronicles 28:24, 2 Chronicles 29:7, 2 Chronicles 29:7, 2 Chronicles 34:34And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street.stylusNehemiah 3:29, Jeremiah 19:2, 2 Chronicles 32:6, Nehemiah 3:29, Jeremiah 19:25And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary.stylus2 Chronicles 35:6, 2 Chronicles 35:6, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 3:17, 1 Corinthians 3:166Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.stylusEzekiel 8:16, Ezekiel 8:16, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 2:27, 2 Chronicles 28:27They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 28:24, 2 Chronicles 28:24, Leviticus 24:2, Leviticus 24:8, Leviticus 24:28Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to destruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes.stylusJeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:18, 2 Chronicles 24:189Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.stylus2 Chronicles 28:17, 2 Chronicles 28:17, 2 Chronicles 28:5, 2 Chronicles 28:8, 2 Chronicles 28:510Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us.stylusJeremiah 50:5, Jeremiah 50:5, 2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Chronicles 23:16, Ezra 10:311My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn incense to him.stylusDeuteronomy 10:8, Deuteronomy 10:8, Numbers 8:6, Numbers 8:14, Galatians 6:712Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis the son of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of the sons of Gerson, Joah the son of Zemma, and Eden the son of Joah.stylus1 Chronicles 6:44, Numbers 4:2, Numbers 4:20, 1 Chronicles 23:7, 1 Chronicles 23:2313And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and Jahiel. Also of the sons of Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias.stylus1 Chronicles 6:39, 1 Chronicles 6:39, 1 Chronicles 15:8, 1 Chronicles 15:8, Leviticus 10:414And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Semei: and of the sons of Idithun, Semeias, and Oziel.stylus1 Chronicles 6:33, 1 Chronicles 6:33, 1 Chronicles 25:3, 1 Chronicles 25:1, 1 Chronicles 25:615And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and the precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.stylus1 Chronicles 23:28, 2 Chronicles 30:12, 1 Chronicles 23:28, 2 Chronicles 30:12, 2 Chronicles 29:516And the priests went into the temple of the Lord to sanctify it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found within to the entrance of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took it away, and carried it out abroad to the torrent Cedron.stylus2 Chronicles 15:16, 2 Chronicles 15:16, 2 Chronicles 3:8, Exodus 26:33, Exodus 26:3417And they began to cleanse on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch of the temple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun.stylus2 Chronicles 29:3, 2 Chronicles 29:7, 2 Chronicles 3:4, 1 Kings 6:3, 1 Chronicles 28:1118And they went in to king Ezechias, and said to him: We have sanctified all the house of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and the vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with all its vessels,stylus2 Chronicles 4:7, 2 Chronicles 4:8, 2 Chronicles 4:1, 2 Chronicles 13:11, 2 Chronicles 4:719And all the furniture of the temple, which king Achaz in his reign had defiled, after his transgression; and behold they are all set forth before the altar of the Lord.stylus2 Chronicles 28:24, 2 Chronicles 28:2420And king Ezechias rising early, assembled all the rulers of the city, and went up into the house of the Lord:stylusGenesis 22:3, Exodus 24:4, Joshua 6:12, Jeremiah 25:4, Genesis 22:321And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to offer them upon the altar of the Lord.stylusLeviticus 4:3, Leviticus 4:14, Leviticus 4:3, Leviticus 4:14, Job 42:822Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests took the blood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and their blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs, and poured the blood upon the altar.stylusLeviticus 4:18, Leviticus 4:18, Leviticus 8:19, Leviticus 8:24, Leviticus 8:1923And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:stylusLeviticus 4:15, Leviticus 4:15, Leviticus 4:24, Leviticus 1:4, Leviticus 4:2424And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.stylusHebrews 2:17, Ezekiel 45:17, Leviticus 14:20, Colossians 1:20, Colossians 1:2125And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps according to the regulation of David the king, and of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for it was the commandment of the Lord by the hand of his prophets.stylus2 Chronicles 8:14, 2 Chronicles 8:14, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 16:4226And the Levites stood, with the instruments of David, and the priests with trumpets.stylus1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 15:24, 1 Chronicles 15:24, Amos 6:527And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocausts upon the altar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to sing praises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments which David the king of Israel had prepared.stylus2 Chronicles 23:18, 2 Chronicles 23:18, 2 Chronicles 20:21, Psalms 137:3, Psalms 137:428And all the multitude adored, and the singers, and the trumpeters, were in their office till the holocaust was finished.stylusRevelation 5:8, Revelation 5:14, Psalms 89:15, Psalms 68:24, Psalms 68:2629And when the oblation was ended, the king, and all that were with him bowed down and adored.stylus2 Chronicles 20:18, 2 Chronicles 20:18, 1 Chronicles 29:20, Romans 14:11, Psalms 72:1130And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised him with great joy, and bowing the knee adored.stylusPsalms 32:11, Psalms 33:1, 1 Chronicles 16:7, 1 Chronicles 16:36, Philippians 4:431And Ezechias added, and said: You have filled your hands to the Lord, come and offer victims, and praises in the house of the Lord. And all the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocausts with a devout mind.stylus2 Chronicles 13:9, 2 Chronicles 13:9, Exodus 35:22, Exodus 35:22, Leviticus 1:132And the number of the holocausts which the multitude offered, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.stylus1 Kings 8:63, Ezra 6:17, 1 Chronicles 29:21, 1 Kings 3:4, 1 Kings 8:6333And they consecrated to the Lord six hundred oxen, and three thousand sheep.stylus34But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are sanctified with an easier rite than the priests.stylus2 Chronicles 35:11, 2 Chronicles 35:11, 2 Chronicles 30:3, 2 Chronicles 30:3, 2 Chronicles 30:1635So there were many holocausts, and the fat of peace offerings, and the libations of holocausts: and the service of the house of the Lord was completed.stylusExodus 29:13, Numbers 15:5, Numbers 15:10, Exodus 29:13, Numbers 15:536And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because the ministry of the Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this thing was taken suddenly.stylusEzra 6:22, Acts 2:41, 1 Chronicles 29:9, Proverbs 16:1, Psalms 10:17