2 Chronicles 29:3
New International Version
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
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
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.

Berean Standard Bible
In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.

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

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

NASB 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.

NASB 1977
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.

Legacy Standard Bible
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and repaired them.

Amplified Bible
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD [which his father had closed] and repaired them [and replaced the gold overlay].

Christian Standard Bible
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD’s temple and repaired them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD’s temple 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In the first year of his kingdom, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of LORD JEHOVAH and he repaired them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And it came to pass, when he was established over his kingdom, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

Contemporary English Version
In the first month of the first year of Hezekiah's rule, he unlocked the doors to the LORD's temple and had them repaired.

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.

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.

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

Good News Translation
In the first month of the year after Hezekiah became king, he reopened the gates of the Temple and had them repaired.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

Literal Standard Version
He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, has opened the doors of the house of YHWH, and strengthens them,

Majority Standard Bible
In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.

New American Bible
In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the LORD’s house and repaired them.

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

New Revised Standard Version
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 Heart English Bible
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors 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
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house 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,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done. 3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD. 4Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.…

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.

2 Chronicles 29:4
Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.

2 Chronicles 29:7
They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:17
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.


Treasury of Scripture

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

A.

2 Chronicles 34:3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

Psalm 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

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2 Chronicles 29:7
Also 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 unto the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 28:24
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 16:14-18
And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar…

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2 Chronicles 29
1. Hezekiah's good reign.
3. He restores religion
5. He exhorts the Levites
12. They sanctify themselves, and cleanse the house of God
20. Hezekiah offers solemn sacrifices,
24. wherein the Levites are more forward than the priests














THE KING CHARGES THE L�VITES, AND THEY CLEANSE THE HOUSE OF GOD

(2Chronicles 29:3-19).

(3) In the first month--i.e., in the month Nisan, the first month of the sacred year; not in the first month of his reign. (Comp. 2Chronicles 29:17 and 2Chronicles 30:23.)

Opened the doors.--Which his father had closed (chap. 28:24).

And repaired them.--By overlaying them with metal--bronze or gold-leaf (2Kings 18:16). . . .

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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In the first
הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן (hā·ri·šō·wn)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7223: First, in place, time, rank

month
בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ (ba·ḥō·ḏeš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month

of the first
הָרִאשׁוֹנָ֨ה (hā·ri·šō·w·nāh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7223: First, in place, time, rank

year
בַשָּׁנָה֩ (ḇaš·šā·nāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

of his reign,
לְמָלְכ֜וֹ (lə·mā·lə·ḵōw)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4427: To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, to induct into royalty, to take counsel

[Hezekiah] opened
פָּתַ֛ח (pā·ṯaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

and repaired
וַֽיְחַזְּקֵֽם׃ (way·ḥaz·zə·qêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

the doors
דַּלְת֥וֹת (dal·ṯō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 1817: Something swinging, the valve of a, door

of the house
בֵּית־ (bêṯ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of the LORD.
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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OT History: 2 Chronicles 29:3 He in the first year of his (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr)
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