2 Chronicles 29:3
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New International Version (©2011)
In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the LORD and repaired them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
In the very first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah reopened the doors of the Temple of the LORD and repaired them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD's temple and repaired them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
In the first month of the first year of his reign he repaired and reopened the doors of the LORD's Temple.

NET Bible (©2006)
In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the LORD's temple and repaired them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In the first month of his first year as king, he opened the doors of the LORD's temple and repaired them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

American King James Version
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

American Standard Version
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

Darby Bible Translation
He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.

English Revised Version
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the door of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

Webster's Bible Translation
He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

World English Bible
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them.

Young's Literal Translation
He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, hath opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and strengtheneth them,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

29:1-19 When Hezekiah came to the crown, he applied at once to work reform. Those who begin with God, begin at the right end of their work, and it will prosper accordingly. Those that turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. There are still such neglects, if the word be not duly read and opened, for that was signified by the lighting the lamps, and also if prayers and praise be not offered up, for that was signified by the burning incense. Neglect of God's worship was the cause of the calamities they had lain under. The Lord alone can prepare the heart of man for vital godliness: when much good is done in a little time, the glory must be ascribed to him; and all who love him or the souls of men, will rejoice therein. Let those that do good work, learn to do it well.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - In the first month; i.e. Nisan, the first month of the calendar year (see vers. 2, 13, 15 of next chapter), not simply the first month of the new king's reign. And repaired them. This repairing of Hezekiah was, unhappily, subsequently undone of his own hands (2 Kings 18:14-16).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,.... And, as appears from 2 Chronicles 29:17, on the first day of the month:

opened the doors of the house of the Lord; which his father had shut, 2 Chronicles 28:24.

and repaired them; or strengthened them, the hinges, and other parts of them, being loosened and weakened; and ornamented them by overlaying them with gold, the plates of which very probably his father had taken off; for, certain it is, Hezekiah overlaid them, and very probably at this time, see 2 Kings 18:16.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2Ch 29:3-11. He Restores Religion.

3. in the first year of his reign, in the first month—not the first month after his accession to the throne, but in Nisan, the first month of the sacred year, the season appointed for the celebration of the passover.

he opened the doors of the house of the Lord—which had been closed up by his father (2Ch 28:24).

and repaired them—or embellished them (compare 2Ki 18:16).

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Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
3He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. 4And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, 5And said to them, Hear me, you Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. …

2 Chronicles 28:24 Ahaz gathered together the furnishings from the temple of God and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors of the LORD's temple and set up altars at every street corner in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 29:4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side
2 Chronicles 29:7 They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:17 They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the temple of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.