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Hezekiah Reigns in Judah

1 Hezekiah abecame king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was1 Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.  
2 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.

Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple

3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he aopened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.  
4 Then he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them in the East Square,
5 and said to them: “Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, asanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry out the rubbish from the holy place.  
6 For our fathers have trespassed and done evil in the eyes of the Lord our God; they have forsaken Him, have aturned their faces away from the1 dwelling place of the Lord, and turned their backs on Him.  
Commentaries:


No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for 2 Chronicles 29:1.

II Chronicles 29:1-4

In II Chronicles 29:1 we see that Ahaz's reign is over, and Hezekiah his son becomes the king. Under Hezekiah a revival occurred.

Right here I want you to begin to see the way the Bible is presenting Hezekiah. It is presenting Hezekiah as in control. He is the one bringing about the reform. Things are being done because Hezekiah wants them done. He is doing the kind of thing that the priests ought to be doing. The priests ought to be the ones leading the revival. Were they not the agents of God? Was not the high priest the mediator between God and man under their system? Absolutely! They should have been leading the revival, but they were not. The king was doing it. The king has taken charge.

Excerpted from Passover (Part 8)

 
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