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The Atonement Ceremony for Judah
2 Chronicles 29:20-30
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Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the LORD’s house.
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They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
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So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
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They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:
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and the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
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He set the Levites in the LORD’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of the LORD by his prophets.
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The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the shofars.
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Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also, and the shofars, together with the instruments of David king of Israel.
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All the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
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When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
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Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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