3In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the temple 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 yourselves now, and sanctify the temple of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place. 6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, our God, and have forsaken Him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. 7They have also shut up the doors of the temple porch, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel in the holy place. 8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes. 9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us. 11My sons, be not now negligent; for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, and to minister unto Him, and burn incense”.

12Then 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; 13And of the sons of Elizaphan: Shimri, and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph: Zechariah, and Mattaniah; 14And of the sons of Heman: Jehiel, and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun: Shemaiah, and Uzziel. 15And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, as Hezekiah commanded, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the temple of the LORD. 16And the priests went into the inner part of the temple of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the temple of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook, Kidron. 17Now, they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD; so they sanctified the temple of the LORD for eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. 18Then they went in to Hezekiah, the king, and said, “We have cleansed all the temple of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and the showbread table, with all its vessels. 19Moreover, have we prepared and sanctified all the utensils which King Ahaz had discarded in his reign of transgression, and, they are set before the altar of the LORD.

20Then Hezekiah, arose early, and assembled the rulers of the city, and went up to the temple of the LORD. 21And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD. 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 upon the altar; they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar. 23And they brought forth the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them, 24And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon 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.

25And Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the temple of the LORD with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan, the prophet; for so was the commandment of the LORD by His prophets. 26The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. 27And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began with the trumpets, and the instruments ordained by David, king of Israel. 28And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished. 29And when they had finished with offering, Hezekiah and all that were present with him bowed down and worshipped. 30Moreover, Hezekiah, the king, and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph, the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

31Then Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the temple of the LORD.” And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart brought burnt offerings. 32And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD. 33And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. 34But there were too few priests, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore, their brethren, the Levites helped them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. 35And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the temple of the LORD was set in order. 36And Hezekiah, and all the people rejoiced, that God had prepared the people; for the thing was done spontaneously.