Text -- 2 Chronicles 29:23-36 (NET)

29:23 Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them. 29:24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel. 29:25 King Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.) 29:26 The Levites had David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets. 29:27 Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel. 29:28 The entire assembly worshiped, as the singers sang and the trumpeters played. They continued until the burnt sacrifice was completed. 29:29 When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped. 29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms of David and Asaph the prophet. So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped. 29:31 Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so brought burnt sacrifices. 29:32 The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord, 29:33 and 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep were consecrated. 29:34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.) 29:35 There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted. 29:36 Hezekiah and all the people were happy about what God had done for them, for it had been done quickly.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:24

¹ tn Heb “said.”

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:25

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Or “seer.”

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:26

¹ tn Heb “stood with” (i.e., stood holding).

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:30

¹ tn Heb “with the words.”

² tn Or “seer.”

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:31

¹ tn Heb “filled your hand.”

² tn Or “tokens of thanks.”

³ tn Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:32

¹ tn Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the Lord were all these.”

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:33

¹ tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (ts’on) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but there is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:34

¹ tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”

² tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:35

¹ tn Or “established.”

NET Notes: 2Ch 29:36

¹ tn Heb “prepared.”

² tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun “they” has been used here for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

³ tn Heb “for quickly was the matter.”