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

2. And he did right in the sight of יְהוָ֥ה, according to all that David his father had done.

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

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

5. And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of יְהוָ֥ה Elohim of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy.

6. For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of יְהוָ֥ה our Elohim, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of יְהוָ֥ה, and turned backs.

7. 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 holy unto the Elohim of Israel.

8. Wherefore the wrath of יְהוָ֥ה was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

9. For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives in captivity for this.

10. Now in mine heart to make a covenant with יְהוָ֥ה Elohim of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

11. My sons, be not now negligent: for יְהוָ֥ה hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.

12. Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel 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 Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:

13. And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

14. And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

15. And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of יְהוָ֥ה, to cleanse the house of יְהוָ֥ה.

16. And the priests went into the inner part of the house of יְהוָ֥ה, to cleanse, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of יְהוָ֥ה into the court of the house of יְהוָ֥ה. And the Levites took, to carry out abroad into the brook Kidron.

17. Now they began on the first of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of יְהוָ֥ה: so they sanctified the house of יְהוָ֥ה in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

18. Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of יְהוָ֥ה, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.

19. Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they before the altar of יְהוָ֥ה.

20. Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of יְהוָ֥ה.

21. And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer on the altar of יְהוָ֥ה.

22. So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

23. And they brought forth the he goats the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

24. And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

25. And he set the Levites in the house of יְהוָ֥ה with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the commandment of יְהוָ֥ה by his prophets.

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

27. And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of יְהוָ֥ה began with the trumpets, and with the instruments by David king of Israel.

28. And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: all until the burnt offering was finished.

29. And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.

30. Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto יְהוָ֥ה with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

31. Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto יְהוָ֥ה, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of יְהוָ֥ה. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.

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

33. And the consecrated things 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 more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

35. And also the burnt offerings in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for burnt offering. So the service of the house of יְהוָ֥ה was set in order.

36. And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that Elohim had prepared the people: for the thing was suddenly.