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And now they craved audience with king Ezechias; We have cleansed the Lord’s house, they told him, and the altar of burnt-sacrifice, with all that belongs to it, the table of hallowed loaves, and all that belongs to the table. (2 Chronicles 29, 18)
and then the priests slaughtered them, and poured out their blood at the altar to expiate Israel’s common guilt; the king’s command was that burnt-sacrifice and offering for fault should both be offered on behalf of the whole people. (2 Chronicles 29, 24)
and when Ezechias gave the word, and the burnt-sacrifice began, loud echoed their praises to the Lord, loud the trumpets blew, loud rang the music planned by David, king of Israel, long ago. (2 Chronicles 29, 27)
Still must singer and trumpeter be at their task among the throng of worshippers, till all the sacrifice was consumed; (2 Chronicles 29, 28)
It was not enough; Here, said Ezechias, are hands consecrated to the Lord afresh; come forward, and present victim and thank-offering in the Lord’s house. Thereupon the whole multitude brought victims and thank-offerings, and some, in their devotion, whole burnt-sacrifice.✻ (2 Chronicles 29, 31)
In burnt-sacrifice they offered seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs, (2 Chronicles 29, 32)
So much work there was to do with all the burnt-sacrifice that must be performed; the fat, too, of the welcome-offerings must be burned, and libations poured over the sacrifices. (2 Chronicles 29, 35)
Then, on the fourteenth day of the second month, they slew the paschal victim. Priest and Levite, cleansed of their defilement at last, offered burnt-sacrifice in the Lord’s house, (2 Chronicles 30, 15)
And now Ezechias assigned the various companies of priests and Levites their duties; for each his own task, attending to burnt-sacrifice and welcome-offering, thanking and praising the Lord, or watching over his gates, where his tent was pitched on earth. (2 Chronicles 31, 2)
The offering of burnt-sacrifice each morning and evening, on the first day of the month and at other times when the law of Moses required it, should be defrayed at the royal expense; (2 Chronicles 31, 3)
Lightly did they speak of Jerusalem’s God, as if he had been all one with those old gods the Chanaanites worshipped, idols made by human hands. (2 Chronicles 32, 19)
he defied the Lord like his father Manasses. No idol Manasses had made but Amon must sacrifice and pay worship to it; (2 Chronicles 33, 22)
