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548 Second Book of Paralipomenon

to him, and to worship him, and to burn incense all the rulers of the city, and went up into the
to him. house of the Lord:
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of 21 And they offered together seven bullocks,
Amasai, and Joel the son of Azarias, of the sons and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he
of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis the son goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the sanctuary,
of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of
the sons of Gerson, Joah the son of Zemma, and Aaron, to offer them upon the altar of the Lord.
Eden the son of Joah. 22 Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the
13 And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and priests took the blood, and poured it upon the
Jahiel. Also of the sons of Asaph, Zacharias, and altar; they killed also the rams, and their blood
Mathanias. they poured also upon the altar, and they killed
14 And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Se- the lambs, and poured the blood upon the altar.
mei: and of the sons of Idithun, Semeias, and 23 And they brought the he goats for sin be-
Oziel. fore the king, and the whole multitude, and they
15 And they gathered together their brethren, laid their hand upon them:
and sanctified themselves, and went in according 24 And the priests immolated them, and
to the commandment of the king, and the pre- sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expi-
cept of the Lord, to purify the house of God. ation of all Israel: for the king had commanded
16 And the priests went into the temple of the that the holocaust and the sin offering should be
Lord to sanctify it, and brought out all the un- made for all Israel.
cleanness that they found within to the entrance 25 And he set the Levites in the house of the
of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took Lord with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps ac-
it away, and carried it out abroad to the torrent cording to the regulation of David the king, and
Cedron. of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for
17 And they began to cleanse on the first day it was the commandment of the Lord by the hand
of the first month, and on the eighth day of the of his prophets.
same month they came into the porch of the tem- 26 And the Levites stood, with the instru-
ple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in ments of David, and the priests with trumpets.
eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the same 27 And Ezechias commanded that they should
month they finished what they had begun. offer holocausts upon the altar: and when the
18 And they went in to king Ezechias, and holocausts were offered, they began to sing
said to him: We have sanctified all the house praises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets,
of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and the and divers instruments which David the king of
vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with Israel had prepared.
all its vessels, 28 And all the multitude adored, and the
19 And all the furniture of the temple, which singers, and the trumpeters, were in their office
king Achaz in his reign had defiled, after his till the holocaust was finished.
transgression; and behold they are all set forth 29 And when the oblation was ended, the
before the altar of the Lord. king, and all that were with him bowed down
20 And king Ezechias rising early, assembled and adored.