2 Chronicles 29:19
17 They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported, “We have cleansed the entire house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table of the showbread with all its utensils.
Moreover, we have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz in his unfaithfulness cast aside during his reign. They are now in front of the altar of the LORD.”
20 Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD.
21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
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- BSB
- Moreover, we have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz in his unfaithfulness cast aside during his reign. They are now in front of the altar of the LORD.”
- KJV
- Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
- WEB
- Moreover, 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.”
- ASV
- Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and, behold, they are before the altar of Jehovah.
- DARBY
- and all the vessels that king Ahaz in his reign cast away in his transgression have we prepared and hallowed, and behold, they are before the altar of Jehovah.
- BLB
- And all the articles that King Ahaz had cast aside in his reign, in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated, and there they [are] before the altar of YHWH.”
- ÅB
- Og alle de kar som kong Ahas i sin troløshet hadde vanhelliget mens han var konge, dem har vi satt i stand og helliget, og nå står de foran Herrens alter.
- OTB
- Videre, alle redskapene som kong Akas hadde kastet bort under sin regjeringstid i sin troløshet, har vi forberedt og innviet; og se, de er foran Herrens alter.»
- B1930
- Og alle de kar som kong Akas i sin troløshet hadde vanhelliget mens han var konge, dem har vi satt i stand og helliget, og nu står de foran Herrens alter.
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Cross references
2 Chronicles 28:24
Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.
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