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Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. See also: 2 Kings 18:1-31 Chronicles 3:132 Chronicles 26:5He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done. See also: 2 Chronicles 34:22 Chronicles 28:1In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD’s house and repaired them. See also: 2 Chronicles 28:242 Chronicles 29:7Matthew 6:33He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the wide place on the east, See also: 2 Chronicles 32:6Jeremiah 19:2Nehemiah 3:29and 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. See also: 2 Chronicles 35:61 Corinthians 3:16-172 Chronicles 34:3-8For 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. See also: Ezekiel 8:16Jeremiah 2:27Lamentations 5:7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. See also: 2 Chronicles 28:24Leviticus 24:2-82 Chronicles 29:3Therefore 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. See also: Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:182 Chronicles 24:18For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. See also: 2 Chronicles 28:172 Chronicles 28:5-8Lamentations 5:7Now 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. See also: Jeremiah 50:52 Chronicles 23:16Ezra 10:3My 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.” See also: Numbers 8:6-14Deuteronomy 10:8Numbers 18:2-7Then the Levites arose: Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah; See also: 2 Chronicles 31:13Numbers 3:17Numbers 3:19-20and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; See also: 1 Chronicles 6:391 Chronicles 15:81 Chronicles 25:2and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. See also: 1 Chronicles 6:331 Chronicles 25:11 Chronicles 25:3They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the LORD’s words, to cleanse the LORD’s house. See also: 2 Chronicles 30:121 Chronicles 23:282 Chronicles 29:5The priests went into the inner part of the LORD’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the LORD’s temple into the court of the LORD’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron. See also: 2 Chronicles 15:16Hebrews 9:23-24Matthew 21:12-13Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the LORD’s porch. They sanctified the LORD’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. See also: 2 Chronicles 29:3Exodus 12:2-81 Kings 6:3Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace and said, “We have cleansed all the LORD’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels. See also: 2 Chronicles 4:7-82 Chronicles 13:112 Chronicles 4:1Moreover, we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which King Ahaz threw away in his reign when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before the LORD’s altar.” See also: 2 Chronicles 28:24Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the LORD’s house. See also: Joshua 6:12Exodus 24:4Jeremiah 25:4They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the LORD’s altar. See also: Leviticus 4:3-14Job 42:8Ezekiel 45:23So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar. See also: Leviticus 4:18Leviticus 8:19Leviticus 8:24They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them. See also: Leviticus 4:15Leviticus 1:4Leviticus 4:24Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. See also: Ezekiel 45:15Colossians 1:20-21Leviticus 14:20He set the Levites in the LORD’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from the LORD by his prophets. See also: 2 Chronicles 8:141 Chronicles 23:51 Chronicles 9:33The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets. See also: 1 Chronicles 23:51 Chronicles 15:24Amos 6:5Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the LORD’s song also began, along with the trumpets and instruments of David king of Israel. See also: 2 Chronicles 23:182 Chronicles 7:3Psalms 137:3-4All the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished. See also: Psalms 89:15Psalms 68:24-26Revelation 5:8-14When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped. See also: 2 Chronicles 20:18Philippians 2:10-11Psalms 72:11Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped. See also: Philippians 4:4Psalms 95:1-2Psalms 32:11Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the LORD’s house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings. See also: 2 Chronicles 13:9Exodus 35:22Exodus 35:5The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to the LORD. See also: 1 Kings 3:41 Chronicles 29:21Ezra 6:17The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep. But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. See also: 2 Chronicles 35:112 Chronicles 30:3Numbers 8:15Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the LORD’s house was set in order. See also: Exodus 29:13Numbers 15:5-10Leviticus 3:15-16Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly. See also: Acts 2:41Proverbs 16:11 Thessalonians 3:8-9
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 29:1
Ver. 1. Abia. The last syllable is neglected, 4 K. xviii. 2. H. --- Some assert that she was a descendant of the high priest, who had been stoned. S. Jerom, Trad.
C. xxiv. 20. T.
↑ 12 Chronicles 29:3
Ver. 3. Reign, in the assembly, which met to recognize his authority. Lyran. ---
Them, adorning them with plates of gold. 4 K. xviii. 16.
↑ 32 Chronicles 29:4
Ver. 4. Street, or court, before the eastern gate. C.
↑ 42 Chronicles 29:5
Ver. 5. Sanctuary, or temple, v. 7. The Jews suppose that idols had been placed in the very sanctuary: (Lyran) but why then were the doors shut? C.
↑ 52 Chronicles 29:7
Ver. 7. Sanctuary, or court of the priests, where the victims were slain. The blood of some was taken into the most holy place, on the day of expiation. C.
↑ 72 Chronicles 29:8
Ver. 8. Trouble. Heb. zuáe, (H.) is rendered vexation. Isai. xxviii. 19. Sept.
"ecstasy." The Jews were frequently driven from their homes. M. --- There were at a loss what to do, confounded and despised. H.
↑ 82 Chronicles 29:9
Ver. 9. Wives. C. xxviii. 8. C. --- So had the wives and family of king Joram been treated. C.
xxi. H.
↑ 92 Chronicles 29:10
Ver. 10. Covenant, swearing to observe the law given by Moses. M.
↑ 102 Chronicles 29:11
Ver. 11. Negligent. Heb. adds, "now," when every thing tends to open your eyes. H.
↑ 112 Chronicles 29:16
Ver. 16. Cedron, as Josias did with the idolatrous altars. 4 K. xxiii. 12. The priests brought what was unclean from the inner temple into the porch. H. ---
This labour lasted eight days, as the cleansing of the porches had done. C. D.
↑ 162 Chronicles 29:17
Ver. 17. Month, Nisan, corresponding with our March, (M.) when Ezechias began his reign.
Salien, A. 3309.
↑ 172 Chronicles 29:19
Ver. 19. Defiled. Heb. "cast out (C.) in his." --- Forth. Heb. and Sept. "We have prepared and purified, behold they are," &c. H.
↑ 192 Chronicles 29:21
Ver. 21. Seven. Only one was prescribed for sins of ignorance. Lev. iv. 13. 22. S.
Jer. Trad. ---
But the late transgressions were of a different nature; and the king consults his zeal, rather than what he was absolutely obliged to do. --- Juda, to expiate the sins of the royal family, of priests, and people.
↑ 212 Chronicles 29:23
Ver. 23. They laid. The king and princes of the people confessed their sins. Lev.
iv. 15.
↑ 232 Chronicles 29:25
Ver. 25. Prophet. Moses had not required music, except on some occasions.
Num. x. 10. But David acted by God's authority. The institution was designed to promote piety, and a love for religious meetings. Such sacred ceremonies are not to be considered as human inventions, for it was, &c. They command our utmost respect. C.
↑ 252 Chronicles 29:27
Ver. 27. Prepared, or ordained. M. --- Heb. "with the instruments, by David."
↑ 272 Chronicles 29:30
Ver. 30. Princes of the priests. H. --- Words; psalms. T. --- Asaph, so famous for music. He had composed some psalms, (C.) and twelve bear his name. T. ---
But he might only have set them to music, (H.) or his band sung them. D. ---
Knee. Prot. "head." Sept. "they prostrated themselves."
↑ 302 Chronicles 29:31
Ver. 31. Added. Heb. and Sept. "answered," a term used in Scripture, though no question had been proposed. H. --- Filled. You are, in some sense, priests.
Prot. "you have consecrated yourselves." The people brought victims but the priests poured the blood round the altar, v. 34.
H.
↑ 312 Chronicles 29:33
Ver. 33. Sheep, for peace-offerings. Jun. C. --- They destined these victims for the use of the temple, (T.) that none might be wanting afterwards. C.
↑ 332 Chronicles 29:34
Ver. 34. Holocausts, as the law required. Lev. i. 6. See C. xxxv. 11. The skin might be taken off other victims, by laics. --- Priests. Syr. "The Levites were more timid, or reserved than the priests, to purify themselves." C. --- Both are indirectly accused of negligence. C. xxx. 15. The Heb. seems to give the preference to the latter, "for the Levites were more upright of heart, (Sept.
willing) to purify themselves than the priests." But the Alex. Sept. may well agree with the Vulg.
The ceremonies attending the purification of both, may be seen Ex. xxix. 1.
Num. viii. 6. H. ---
The priests had not sufficient time to collect themselves with the purity required, on such a short warning; and the paucity induced the king to put off the Passover till the next month. C. xxx. 3.
15.
↑ 342 Chronicles 29:36
Ver. 36. Because. Heb. and Sept. "that the Lord had disposed his people, for the thing was done suddenly," (H.) to place no obstacle to this sudden change from one extreme to the other, at a time when the king was scarcely established on the throne. C. --- Thus the people of England rejoiced, when the Catholic religion was re-established by the means of queen Mary and cardinal Pole.
Philips. 9. --- But the minds of the people are very fickle. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis. Still the joy may show, that all love for truth is "not extinct," as the Cardinal argued from the people's conduct. Poli. ep. H.
↑ 36License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses