14:029:009 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the
sword, and our sons
and
our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
14:029:010 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant
with the lord God
of
Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
14:029:011 My sons, be not now negligent: for
the lord hath chosen you to
stand
before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister
unto
him, and burn incense.
14:029:012 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:
14:029:013 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and
Jeiel: and of the
sons
of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14:029:014 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei:
and of the sons
of
Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
14:029:015 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified
themselves,
and
came, according to the commandment of the king, by
the
words
of the lord, to cleanse the house of the lord.
14:029:016 And the priests went into the inner part
of the house of the
lord,
to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness
that
they
found in the temple of the lord into the court
of the
house
of the lord. And the Levites took it, to
carry it out
abroad
into the brook Kidron.
14:029:017 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 the lord: so they sanctified the house
of the lord in
eight
days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they
made
an end.
14:029:018 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king,
and said, We have
cleansed
all the house of the lord, and the altar of burnt
offering,
with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread
table,
with all the vessels thereof.
14:029:019 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz
in his reign did
cast
away in his transgression, have we prepared and
sanctified,
and, behold, they are before the altar of the
lord.
14:029:020 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and
gathered the rulers of
the
city, and went up to the house of the lord.
14:029:021 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 them on the altar of the
lord.


