2 Chronicles 29:23 The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.

English Standard Version
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
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
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
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
They brought the male goats for the sin offering to the king within the assembled gathering, 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.

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;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20-30. Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city—His anxiety to enter upon the expiatory service with all possible despatch, now that the temple had been properly prepared for it, prevented his summoning all the representatives of Israel. The requisite number of victims having been provided, and the officers of the temple having sanctified themselves according to the directions of the law, the priests were appointed to offer sacrifices of atonement successively, for "the kingdom," that is, for the sins of the king and his predecessors; for "the sanctuary," that is, for the sins of the priests themselves and for the desecration of the temple; "and for Judah," that is, for the people who, by their voluntary consent, were involved in the guilt of the national apostasy. Animals of the kinds used in sacrifice were offered by sevens, that number indicating completeness. The Levites were ordered to praise God with musical instruments, which, although not originally used in the tabernacle, had been enlisted in the service of divine worship by David on the advice of the prophets Gad and Nathan, as well calculated to animate the devotions of the people. At the close of the special services of the occasion, namely, the offering of atonement sacrifices, the king and all civic rulers who were present joined in the worship. A grand anthem was sung (2Ch 29:30) by the choir, consisting of some of the psalms of David and Asaph, and a great number of thank offerings, praise offerings, and freewill burnt offerings were presented at the invitation of the king.