2 Chronicles 29:30-36

29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms ¹  of David and Asaph the prophet. ²  So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped. 29:31 Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves ³  to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings ⁴  to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so ⁵  brought burnt sacrifices.

29:32 The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord, ⁶  29:33 and 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep ⁷  were consecrated. 29:34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, ⁸  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.) ⁹  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. ¹⁰  29:36 Hezekiah and all the people were happy about what God had done ¹¹  for them, ¹²  for it had been done quickly. ¹³ 

[29:30]  ¹ tn Heb “with the words.”

[29:30]  ² tn Or “seer.”

[29:31]  ³ tn Heb “filled your hand.”

[29:31]  ⁴ tn Or “tokens of thanks.”

[29:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”

[29:32]  ⁶ 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.”

[29:33]  ⁷ 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.

[29:34]  ⁸ tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”

[29:34]  ⁹ tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”

[29:35]  ¹⁰ tn Or “established.”

[29:36]  ¹¹ tn Heb “prepared.”

[29:36]  ¹² tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun “they” has been used here for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

[29:36]  ¹³ tn Heb “for quickly was the matter.”