2 Chronicles 29:23
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New International Version (©2011)
The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The male goats for the sin offering were then brought before the king and the assembly of people, who laid their hands on them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then they brought the male goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then they brought the goats for the sin offering right into the presence of the king and the congregation, who laid their hands on them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They brought the male goats for the sin offering to the king within the assembled gathering, laid their hands on them,

NET Bible (©2006)
Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then they brought the male goats for the offering for sin in front of the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they brought forth the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

American King James Version
And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands on them:

American Standard Version
And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands upon them:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:

Darby Bible Translation
And they brought near the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them.

English Revised Version
And they brought near the he-goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

Webster's Bible Translation
And they brought forth the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

World English Bible
They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:

Young's Literal Translation
and they bring nigh the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the assembly, and they lay their hands upon them;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

29:20-36 As soon as Hezekiah heard that the temple was ready, he lost no time. Atonement must be made for the sins of the last reign. It was not enough to lament and forsake those sins; they brought a sin-offering. Our repentance and reformation will not obtain pardon but in and through Christ, who was made sin, that is, a sin-offering for us. While the offerings were on the altar, the Levites sang. Sorrow for sin must not prevent us from praising God. The king and the congregation gave their consent to all that was done. It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship with the heart. And we should offer up our spiritual sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, and devote ourselves and all we have, as sacrifices, acceptable to the Father only through the Redeemer.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - The he-goats for the sin offering. No preposition "for" is found in the Hebrew text, and the previous noun is in the construct state, שְׂעַירֵי. Laid their hands. This signified the supposed laying of sins - the sins of the people - on the head of the animal (Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 4:4, etc.).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation,.... Which were to make atonement for the sins of both:

and they laid their hands on them; signifying thereby that they were vicarious sacrifices to be offered up in their own room and stead, and that they deserved to die, as these creatures would: transferring as it were hereby their sins unto them, for which they were to be sacrificed, and to make atonement, as an emblem of the imputation of the sins of the Lord's people to Christ, sacrificed in their stead.

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Hezekiah Restores Temple Worship
…22So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood on the altar. 23And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands on them: 24And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood on the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. …

Leviticus 1:4 You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you.
Leviticus 4:15 The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull's head before the LORD, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the LORD.