²⁵The king followed the instructions that the Lord had given to King David through Gad, the king’s prophet, and through the prophet Nathan; he stationed Levites in the Temple, with harps and cymbals, ²⁶instruments like those that King David had used. The priests also stood there with trumpets. ²⁷Hezekiah gave the order for the burnt offering to be presented; and as the offering began, the people sang praise to the Lord, and the musicians began to play the trumpets and all the other instruments. ²⁸Everyone who was there joined in worship, and the singing and the rest of the music continued until all the sacrifices had been burnt. ²⁹Then King Hezekiah and all the people knelt down and worshipped God. ³⁰The king and the leaders of the nation told the Levites to sing to the Lord the songs of praise that were written by David and by Asaph the prophet. So everyone sang with great joy as they knelt and worshipped God.

³¹Hezekiah said to the people, “Now that you are ritually clean, bring sacrifices as offerings of thanksgiving to the Lord.” They obeyed, and some of them also voluntarily brought animals to be sacrificed as burnt offerings. ³²They brought 70 bulls, 100 sheep, and 200 lambs as burnt offerings for the Lord; ³³they also brought 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep as sacrifices for the people to eat. ³⁴Since there were not enough priests to kill all these animals, the Levites helped them until the work was finished. By then more priests had made themselves ritually clean. (The Levites were more faithful in keeping ritually clean than the priests were.)

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