1   Therfore Ezechias began to reigne, when he was fiue and twentie yeares old, and he reigned nine and twentie yeares in Ierusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.

2   And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of our Lord, according to al thinges that Dauid his father had done.

3   He in the first yeare and moneth of his reigne opened the doores of the house of our Lord, and repayred them.

4   And he brought the Priestes and the Leuites, and assembled them in the East streate.

5   And he sayd to them: Heare me ye Leuites, and be sanctified, cleanse the house of our Lord the God of your fathers, and take away al vncleannes out of the Sanctuarie.

6   Our fathers haue sinned and done euil in the sight of our Lord God, forsaking him: they haue turned a way their faces from the tabernacle of our Lord, and geuen the backe.

7   They haue shut the doores, that were in the porch, and put out the lampes, and haue not burnt incense, and haue not offered holocaustes in the Sanctuarie of the God of Israel.

8   Therfore was the furie of our Lord stirred vp vpon Iuda and Ierusalem, and he hath deliuered them into commotion, and into destruction, & to be hissed at, as your selues see with your eyes.

9   Behold, our fathers haue fallen by the swordes, our sonnes, and our daughters, and wiues are led captiue for this wickednesse.

10   Now therfore it pleaseth me that we make a couenant with our Lord the God of Israel, and he wil turne away the furie of his wrath from vs.

11   My children be not negligent: our Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, and to minister to him, and to worshipe him, and to burne incense to him.

12   The Leuites therfore arose: Mabath the sonne of Amasai, and Ioel the sonne of Azarias, of the children of Caath: moreouer the children of Merari, Cis the sonne of Abdi, and Azarias the sonne of Ialaleel. And of the children of Gerson, Ioah the sonne of Zemma, and Eden the sonne of Ioah.

13   But of the children of Elisaphan, Samri, and Iahiel. Also of the children of Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias.

Ezechias.

14   Moreouer also of the children of Heman, Iahiel, & Semei: yea and of the children of Idithum, Semeias, and Oziel.

15   And they gathered together their brethren, and were sanctified, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and the precept of our Lord, to purge the house of God.

16   The Priestes also going into the Temple of our Lord to sanctifie it, brought out al vncleannes, which they found within the entrance of the house of our Lord, which the Leuites tooke, and caried to the Torrent cedron without.

17   And they began to clense it the first day of the first moneth, and in the eight day of the same moneth they entred into the porche of the temple of our Lord, and they purged the temple in eight dayes, and in the sixtenth day of the same moneth, they accomplished that which they began.

18   They entered in also to Ezechias the king, and sayd to him: We haue sanctified al the house of our Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and the vessels therof, moreouer also the table of proposition with al the vessels therof,

19   and al the furniture of the temple, which king Achaz in his reigne had polluted, after that he transgressed; and behold al thinges are set forth before the altat of our Lord.

20   and Ezechias the king rising early, assembled al the princes of the citie, and went vp into the house of our Lord:

21   and they offered together seuen oxen, and seuen rammes, seuen lambes, and seuen buckgoates for sinne, for the kingdom, for the sanctuarie, for Iuda, and he sayd to the Priestes the children of Aaron, that they should offer them vpon the altar of our Lord.

22   They killed therfore the oxen, and the Priestes tooke the bloud, and powred it vpon the altar, they killed also the rammes, and their bloud they powred also vpon the altar, and they immolated the lambes, and powred the bloud vpon the altar.

23   They brought the buckgoates for sinne before the king, and the whole multitude, and they put their handes vpon them:

24   and the Priestes immolated them, and sprinkled their bloud on the altar for an expiation of al Israel: for the king had commanded for al Israel, that holocaust should be made, and for sinne.

25   He appoynted also the Leuites in the house of our Lord with cymbals, and psalteries, and harpes according to the disposition of Dauid the king, and of Gad the Seer, and of Nathan the Prophete: for it was the precept of our Lord by the hand of his prophetes.

26   And the

Ezechias. Leuites stoode, holding the instrumentes of Dauid, and the Priestes trumpettes.

27   And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocaustes vpon the altar: and when holocaustes were offered, they began to sing prayses to our Lord, and to sound with trumpettes, and on diuerse instrumentes, which Dauid the king of Israel had prepared for to sound.

28   And al the multitude adoring, the singing men, and they that held the trumpettes, were in their office, whiles the holocaust was accomplished.

29   And when the oblation was ended, the king bowed, and al that were with him, and adored.

30   And Ezechias, and the princes commanded the Leuites, that they should prayse our Lord in the wordes of Dauid, and Asaph the Seer: who praysed him with great ioy, and bowing the knee adored.

31   But Ezechias added these wordes also: You haue filled your handes to our Lord, come, and offer victimes, and prayses in the house of our Lord. Al the multitude therfore offered hostes, and prayses, and holocaustes with a deuout minde.

32   Moreouer the number of the holocaustes, which the multitude offered, was thls, oxen seuentie, rammes an hundred, lambes two hundred.

33   And they sanctified to our Lord oxen six hunered, & sheepe three thousand.

34   But the Priestes were few, neither could they suffise to draw of the skinnes of the holocaustes: wherfore the Leuites also their brethren holpe them, til the worke was accomplished, and the Priestes were sanctified, for the Leuites are sanctified with an easier rite, then the Priestes.

35   There were holocaustes therfore verie many, the fatte of pacifiques, and the libamentes of the holocaustes: and the seruice of the house of our Lord was accomplished.

36   And Ezechias reioysed, and al the people, because the ministerie of our Lord was accomplished. For it pleased them that the thing should be done of a soden.

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