Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
A.M.
2 Kings 18:1-3 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king …
1 Chronicles 3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
Isaiah 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah …
Hosea 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the …
Micah 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days …
Matthew 1:9,10 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias…
Ezekias
Zechariah
2 Chronicles 26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding …
Isaiah 8:2 And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, …
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
And said unto them, Hear me, ye 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.
sanctify now
2 Chronicles 35:6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brothers…
Exodus 19:10,15 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them to …
1 Chronicles 15:12 And said to them, You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: …
sanctify the house
2 Chronicles 29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, …
2 Chronicles 34:3-8 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began …
Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: …
Matthew 21:12,13 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that …
1 Corinthians 3:16,17 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit …
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are …
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …
Ephesians 5:26,27 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word…
carry forth
Ezekiel 8:3,9 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my …
For 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.
For our fathers
2 Chronicles 28:2-4,23-25 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten …
2 Chronicles 34:21 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel …
Ezra 5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, …
Ezra 9:7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass to …
Nehemiah 9:16,32 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, …
Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of …
Jeremiah 44:21 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets …
Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Daniel 9:16 O LORD, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your …
Matthew 10:37 He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: …
Matthew 23:30-32 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not …
have forsaken him
Jeremiah 2:13,17 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the …
turned away
Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought …
Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, …
turned their backs [heb] given the neck
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.
Those, says Matthew Henry, who turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. The lamps were not lighted, and incense was not burnt: there are still such neglects as these, and they are no less culpable, if the Word be not duly read and opened, answering to the lighting of the lamps, and if prayers and praises be not duly offered up, which was signified by the burning of incense.
2 Chronicles 29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the …
2 Chronicles 28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut …
Leviticus 24:2-8 Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure oil olive …
2 Kings 16:17,18 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver …
Malachi 1:10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? …
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
Wherefore
2 Chronicles 24:18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served …
2 Chronicles 34:24,25 Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and …
2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed …
Deuteronomy 28:15-20 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of …
he hath delivered It is probable Hezekiah refers to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites, in which one hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners:
2 Chronicles 28:6-8 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty …
trouble [heb] commotion
Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …
to astonishment
Leviticus 26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which …
Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of …
1 Kings 9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall …
Jeremiah 18:15,16 Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity…
Jeremiah 19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing…
Jeremiah 25:9,18 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said …
Jeremiah 29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with …
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
Now it is
2 Chronicles 6:7,8 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for …
to make a covenant To renew that covenant under which the whole people were constantly considered, and of which circumcision was the sign, and the spirit of which was, `I will be your God, ye shall be my people.'
2 Chronicles 15:12,13 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers …
2 Chronicles 23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, …
2 Chronicles 34:30-32 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men …
Ezra 10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all …
Nehemiah 9:38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and …
Nehemiah 10:1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, …
Jeremiah 34:15,18 And you were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming …
Jeremiah 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come…
2 Corinthians 8:5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves …
that his fierce
2 Kings 23:3,26 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, …
My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
negligent. or, deceived
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
the Lord
Numbers 3:6-9 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, …
Numbers 8:6-14 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them…
Numbers 18:2-6 And your brothers also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, …
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark …
Numbers 16:35-40 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred …
Numbers 18:7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office …
Then 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 Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
Kohathites
Exodus 6:16-25 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; …
Numbers 4:2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after …
1 Chronicles 6:16-18 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari…
1 Chronicles 15:5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brothers an hundred and twenty:
1 Chronicles 23:12-20 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four…
of the sons
1 Chronicles 6:16-18 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari…
1 Chronicles 15:5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brothers an hundred and twenty:
1 Chronicles 23:12-20 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four…
of the sons
1 Chronicles 6:19,44 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families …
1 Chronicles 15:6 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred …
1 Chronicles 23:21-23 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish…
of the Gershonites
1 Chronicles 6:17,20,21 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei…
1 Chronicles 15:7 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief and his brothers an hundred and thirty:
1 Chronicles 23:7-11 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei…
And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
And the priests went into the inner part of the house 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 house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
the priests The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labour they spent eight days. Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but, as the levites had no right to enter the temple, the priests carried all the dirt and rubbish to the porch, whence they were collected by the Levites, carried away, and cast into the brook Kidron: in this work, eight more days were occupied; and thus the temple was purified in sixteen days.
the inner part
2 Chronicles 3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according …
2 Chronicles 5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to …
Exodus 26:33,34 And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, that you may bring …
1 Kings 6:19,20 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the …
Hebrews 9:2-8,23,24 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, …
all the uncleanness
Ezekiel 36:29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call …
Matthew 21:12,13 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that …
Matthew 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like to …
kidron
2 Chronicles 15:16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed …
2 Kings 23:4-6 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of …
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples …
Cedron
Now 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 house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
they brought The law only required one bullock for the sins of the high priest, another for the sins of the people, and one he-goat for the sins of the prince: but Hezekiah offered many more, and the reason appears sufficiently evident: the law only speaks of the sins of ignorance, but here there were sins of every dye, idolatry, apostasy from the Divine worship, profanation of the temple, etc. The sin offerings, we are informed, were offered, first, for the Kingdom, for the transgressions of the king and his family; secondly, for the sanctuary, which had been defiled and polluted; and for the priests, who had been profane, negligent, and unholy; and finally, for Judah, for the whole mass of the people, who had been led away into every kind of abomination by the above examples.
seven
Numbers 23:1,14,29 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare …
1 Chronicles 15:26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark …
Ezra 8:35 Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were …
Job 42:8 Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to …
Ezekiel 45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD…
a sin offering
Leviticus 4:3-14 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the …
Numbers 15:22-24 And if you have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which …
So 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.
And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
And 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.
reconciliation
Leviticus 6:30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the …
Leviticus 8:15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns …
Ezekiel 45:15,17 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat …
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, …
Romans 5:10,11 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death …
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus …
Colossians 1:20,21 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to …
Hebrews 2:17 Why in all things it behooved him to be made like to his brothers…
to make
Leviticus 14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering …
the sin offering
Leviticus 4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and …
And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with 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.
And he set
1 Chronicles 9:33 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who …
1 Chronicles 15:16-22 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers …
1 Chronicles 16:4,5,42 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark …
1 Chronicles 25:1-7 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …
according
2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the …
2 Chronicles 35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according …
1 Chronicles 23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the …
1 Chronicles 28:12,19 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of …
Gad
2 Samuel 24:11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to …
1 Chronicles 21:9 And the LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
1 Chronicles 29:29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are …
Nathan
2 Samuel 7:2-4 That the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an …
2 Samuel 12:1-7 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to …
for so was
2 Chronicles 20:12 O our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against …
of the Lord by his prophets. [heb] by the hand of the Lord, by the hand of his prophets.
And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
the instruments
1 Chronicles 23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the …
Psalm 87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: …
Psalm 150:3-5 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery …
Isaiah 38:20 The LORD was ready to save me…
Amos 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments …
the priests
2 Chronicles 5:12,13 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of …
Numbers 10:8,10 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets…
Joshua 6:4-9 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' …
1 Chronicles 15:24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, …
1 Chronicles 16:6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before …
Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our …
Psalm 98:5,6 Sing to the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm…
And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
Moreover 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.
with the words
2 Samuel 23:1,2 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, …
1 Chronicles 16:7-36 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD …
they sang
Psalm 32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, …
Psalm 33:1 Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
Psalm 95:1,2,6 O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the …
Psalm 100:1,2 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all you lands…
Psalm 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion …
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
consecrated yourselves. or, filled your hand.
2 Chronicles 13:9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, …
sacrifices
Leviticus 1:1-3:17 And the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tabernacle …
thank
Leviticus 7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice …
and as many, etc. As the burnt offerings were wholly consumed on the altar, the offering of them evinced greater zeal and liberality than the oblation of peace offerings, the greater part of which was eaten by the officer and his friends.
Leviticus 1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a …
Leviticus 23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside …
Ezra 1:4 And whoever remains in any place where he sojournes, let the men …
And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help 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.
the priests Peace offerings, and such like, the Levites might flay and dress; but the whole burnt offerings could only be touched by the priests, except in a case of necessity, such as the present.
2 Chronicles 20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, …
2 Chronicles 30:16,17 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the …
their brethren
2 Chronicles 35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood …
Numbers 8:15,19 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle …
Numbers 18:3,6,7 And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle…
did help them [heb] strengthened them
for the Levites
2 Chronicles 30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had …
upright
1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in …
Psalm 7:10 My defense is of God, which saves the upright in heart.
Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:
Psalm 94:15 But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in …
And 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 house of the LORD was set in order.
And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
Hezekiah rejoiced Both Hezekiah and the people rejoiced, that God had prepared the hearts of the people to bring about so great and glorious a reformation in so short a time. This good king's example and influence were here, as in many other cases, under God, the grand spring of all those mighty movements.
1 Chronicles 29:9,17 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because …
Ezra 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the …
1 Thessalonians 3:8,9 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord…
God
2 Chronicles 30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the …
1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers…
Psalm 10:17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their …
Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, …
the thing
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same …
