Hezekia beganne to raygne, wh&ebar;
he was fyue ∧ twenty yere olde,
∧ raygned nyne ∧ twenty yere in
Ierusal&ebar;. note And his mothers name
was Abia þe; daughter of Zachariahu.
And he dyd that which was ryght in
the syght of the Lorde, in all poyntes as
dyd Dauid hys father. He note opened the dores
of the house of the Lorde (in the fyrst yere and
fyrst moneth of hys raygne) and repayred
them. And he brought in the preastes and þe;
Leuites, and gathered them together in to
the eest strete: and sayde vnto them.
Heare me ye Leuites, ∧ now be sanctifyed
and halowe the house of the Lorde God of
youre fathers, brynge fylthinesse out of the
holy place. For oure fathers haue trespaced,
and done euell in the eyes of the Lorde oure
God: and haue forsak&ebar; him, ∧ turned awaye
theyr faces from the habitaci&obar; of the Lorde,
and turned theyr backes on it. And besyde þt;
they haue shut vp the dores of the porche and
qu&ebar;ched the lampes, ∧ haue nether burnt incense,
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Hezekia
nor offered burnt offeringes in the holy
place vnto the God of Israel.
Wherfore the wrath of the Lorde fell on
Iuda and Ierusalem: ∧ he hath brought th&ebar;
to trouble, to be wondred on, and to be hissed
at, eu&ebar; as ye se with youre eyes. For, lo, oure
fathers were ouerthrowen with the swerde,
and oure sonnes, oure daughters ∧ oure wyues
were caryed awaye captiue for the same
cause. And nowe it is in my hert, to make a
couenaunt with the Lorde God of Israel: þt;
he maye turne awaye his heuye indignacyon
from vs. Nowe therfore my sonnes, be not
neclygent: for the Lorde note hath chosen you to
st&abar;de before him, and for to ministre and serue
hym, and to burne incense.
C Then the Leuites arose: Mahath þe; sonne
of Amasai, ∧ Ioel the sonne of Asariahu of
the chyldren of the Cahathites. And of the
s&obar;nes of Merari, Kis the sonne of Addi, and
Asariahu the sonne of Iehalelel. And of the
sonnes of the Gersonites, Ioah the sonne of
Simma, and Eden the sonne of Ioah. And
of the sonnes of Elizaphan, Simri ∧ Iehiel.
And of the sonnes of Asaph, Zechariahu and
Mathaniahu. And of the sonnes of Heman,
Iehiel ∧ Simei. And of þe; sonnes of Ieduth&ubar;
Semaia and Uziel. And they gathered their
brethren, ∧ purifyed them selues, ∧ came accordynge
to the c&obar;maundement of the kynge
and the wordes of the Lorde, for to clense the
house of the Lorde. And the preastes went
into the ynner partes of the house of the Lord
to clense it, and brought out all the vnclennesse
that they fo&ubar;de in the t&ebar;ple of the Lorde
into the court of the house of the Lorde. And
the Leuites toke it, to carye it out into the
broke Cedron. They beganne the fyrst daye
of the fyrst moneth to purifye, and the eyght
daye of þe; monethe came they to the porche of
the Lorde:
D and purged the house of the Lorde
in eyght dayes, and in the syxtene daye of the
fyrst moneth they made an ende.
And they went into Hezekia the kynge, ∧
sayde: we haue cl&ebar;sed all the house of þe; Lord,
the aulter of burntofferinge, with all his vessels,
∧ the shewbreed table with all his apparell:
and all the vessels which kyng Ahaz did
cast a syde when he raygned ∧ transgressed,
them we haue prepared and sanctifyed: and
beholde, they are before þe; aulter of the Lord.
And Hezekia the kynge rose earlye, ∧ gathered
the Lordes of the cytie and went vp to þe;
house of the Lorde.
E And they brought seuen
oxen, seuen r&abar;mes, seuen shepe, and seuen hegoates,
to be a synne offeryng for the kyngdome,
for the sanctuarie, ∧ for Iuda. And he
commaunded the preastes the sonnes of Aaron,
to offer them on the aulter of the Lorde.
And they slue the oxen, ∧ the preastes receaued
þe; bloude, ∧ sprinkled it on the aulter:
lyke wyse, whan they had slayne the r&abar;mes,
Hezekia
they sprinkled þe; bloude vpon the aulter: they
slue also the shepe, ∧ they sprinkled the bloud
vp&obar; the aulter. And then they brought forth
the hegoates for the synne offerynge before þe;
kynge and the congregacyon, ∧ put theyr h&abar;des
vpon them. And the preastes slue them,
and with the bloude of them they clensed the
aulter, to make satisfaccion for all Israel: for
the kynge c&obar;maunded, þt; the burnt offerynge
and the synne offering shulde be made for all
Israel. And set the Leuites in the house of þe;
Lorde with symbales, psalteries and harpes
note accordynge to the commaundement of Dauid
F
and of Gad the kynges sear, and Nath&abar;
the prophete. For so was the commaundm&ebar;t
of the Lorde thorowe the h&abar;de of his prophetes.
And the Leuites stode, hauynge þe; instrumentes
of Dauid, and the preastes helde the
trompettes. And Hezekia commaunded to
offer the burntofferynge vp&obar; the aulter. And
when the burntoffering beg&abar;ne, the songe of
the Lorde beganne also, ∧ the trompettes &wt;
the instrumentes that were ordeyned by the
hande of Dauid kynge of Israel. And all the
congregacion worshypped, synginge a song,
and blowinge with the trompets, ∧ all thys
continued, vntyll the burnt offerynge was
fynysshed.
And when they had made an ende of offerynge,
the kynge and all that were present &wt;
hym. bowed them selues, ∧ worshypped. And
Hezekia the kynge ∧ the Lordes spake to the
Leuites to prayse the Lorde with þe; wordes
of Dauid, ∧ of Asaph the sear. And the Leuites
sange prayses with gladnesse, and þe; other
bowed them selues, and worshypped.
And Hezekia answered, ∧ sayde: nowe ye
haue consecrate youre handes to the Lord: go
to therfore, ∧ bringe in the sacrifices ∧ thankofferynges
into the house of the Lorde.
G And
the congregacyon brought in the sacrifyces ∧
thanke offerynges ∧ burntofferinges, as many
as were of a fre liberall hart. And þe; nombre
of the burntofferinges which the congregacion
brought, was .lxx. oxen, an hundred
rammes, ∧ two hundred shepe: which were,
all for the burnt offeringe of the Lorde. And
&rhand; ther were dedicated syxe hundred oxen,
and thre thousande shepe.
And the preastes were to fewe, to fleye all
the burnt offeringes: but their brethren þe; Leuites
dyd helpe them, till they had ended the
worke, and vntyll the preastes were sanctifyed.
For the Leuites were purer herted to
be sanctifyed then the preastes. And therto þe;
burnt offerynges were many with the fatte
of þe; peace offeringes ∧ the drinke offerynges
þt; be longe to the burnt offerynge. And so the
seruice pertayninge to the house of the Lorde
was fynisshed. And Hezekia reioysed ∧ all þe;
people, that God had made the folcke so readye:
and that the thynge was so soone done.
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Hezekia
Great [1540], ¶ The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the cont&ebar;t of al the holy scrypture both of þe; olde, and newe testam&ebar;t, with a prologe therinto, made by the reuerende father in God, Thomas archbysshop of Cantorbury, ¶ This is the Byble apoynted to the vse of the churches (Printed by Edward Whytchurche) [word count] [B06000].
