Text -- 2 Chronicles 29:31-36 (NET)

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 29:31

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.”