Hezekiah King of Judah
1   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.
2   And he did that which was right in the sight of  the  LORD,  according  to  all  that  David  his father had done.

The Temple Cleansed
3   He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,  opened  the  doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
4   And  he  brought  in  the  priests  and  the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
5   And said unto them, Hear me, you Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filth out of the holy place.
6   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.
7   Also they have shut up the doors of the vestibule, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
8   Therefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah  and  Jerusalem,  and  he  has  delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.
9   For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
10   Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11   My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that you should minister unto him, and burn incense.
12   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:
13   And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeuel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14   And of the sons of Heman; Jehuel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
15   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.
16   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 to the brook Kidron.
17   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 vestibule of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
18   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 its utensils, and the showbread table, with all its utensils.
19   Moreover all the utensils, 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.
20   Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
21   And  they  brought  seven  bullocks,  and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male 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.
22   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.
23   And they brought forth the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
24   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.
25   And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with lyres, 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.
26   And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
27   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.
28   And all the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
29   And when they had finished offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped.
30   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 worshiped.
31   Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now you   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.
32   And  the  number  of  the  burnt  offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
33   And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
34   But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings: therefore 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.
35   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.
36   And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.