King Hezekiah’s first act as king was to open the temple doors his father Ahaz had shut and commission the priests and Levites to cleanse the house of the LORD.
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Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old And he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem
And he did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes According to all that David his father had done In the first year of his reign, in the first month He opened the doors of the LORD’s house and repaired them
And he brought in the priests and the Levites And gathered them together into the wide place on the east And said to them, Listen to me, you Levites Now sanctify yourselves and sanctify the house of the LORD
The God of your fathers and carry the filthiness out of the holy place For our fathers were unfaithful and have done that which was evil In the LORD our God’s sight and have forsaken him
And have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD And turned their backs Also they have shut up the doors of the porch and put out the lamps
And have not burnt incense nor offered burnt offerings In the holy place to the God of Israel Therefore the LORD’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem And he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth
To be an astonishment and a hissing, as you see with your eyes For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters And our wives are in captivity for this
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD The God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us My sons, don’t be negligent now for the LORD has chosen you To stand before him, to minister to him
And that you should be his ministers and burn incense The Levites arose and began on the first day of the first month to sanctify They sanctified the LORD’s house in eight days On the sixteenth day of the first month they finished
The restoration begins, the reforms made The temple cleansed, the covenant renewed
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2 Chronicles 29 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.
Published 2026-05-22 · Last updated 2026-06-06
Written by Reid Wender, Editorial Director at Psalmody Press