^29:25King Hezekiah²¹ stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet,²² and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.) ^29:26The Levites had²³ David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets. ^29:27Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel. ^29:28The entire assembly worshiped, as the singers sang and the trumpeters played. They continued until the burnt sacrifice was completed.

^29:29When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped. ^29:30King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms²⁴ of David and Asaph the prophet.²⁵ So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped. ^29:31Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves²⁶ to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings²⁷ to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so²⁸ brought burnt sacrifices.

^29:32The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord,²⁹^29:33and 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep³⁰ were consecrated. ^29:34But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals,³¹ so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)³²

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Footnotes

21 Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 Or “seer.”
23 Heb “stood with” (i.e., stood holding).
24 Heb “with the words.”
25 Or “seer.”
26 Heb “filled your hand.”
27 Or “tokens of thanks.”
28 Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”
29 Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the Lord were all these.”
30 The Hebrew term צֹאן (ts’on) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but there is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
31 Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”
32 Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”