Discovery Box2 Chronicles 28:27--29:1 
Context28:27 Ahaz passed away 1 and was buried in the City of David; 2 they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.
29:1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 3 His mother was Abijah, 4 the daughter of Zechariah.
2 Chronicles 29:18
Context29:18 They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment.
2 Chronicles 29:27
Context29:27 Hezekiah 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.
2 Chronicles 29:30-31
Context29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms 5 of David and Asaph the prophet. 6 So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped. 29:31 Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves 7 to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings 8 to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so 9 brought burnt sacrifices.
2 Chronicles 30:1
Context30:1 Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 10 and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:22
Context30:22 Hezekiah expressed his appreciation to all the Levites, 11 who demonstrated great skill in serving the Lord. 12 They feasted for the seven days of the festival, 13 and were making peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 30:24
Context30:24 King Hezekiah of Judah supplied 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep 14 for the assembly, while the officials supplied them 15 with 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. Many priests consecrated themselves.
2 Chronicles 31:2
Context31:2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks 16 – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. 17
2 Chronicles 31:13
Context31:13 Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath, and Benaiah worked under the supervision of Konaniah and his brother Shimei, as directed by King Hezekiah and Azariah, the supervisor of God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 32:8-9
Context32:8 He has with him mere human strength, 18 but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!” The army 19 was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.
32:9 Afterward King Sennacherib of Assyria, while attacking Lachish with all his military might, sent his messengers 20 to Jerusalem. The message was for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of 21 Judah who were in Jerusalem. It read:
2 Chronicles 32:11-12
Context32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power 22 of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! 23 32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 24 the Lord’s 25 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
2 Chronicles 32:22
Context32:22 The Lord delivered Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem from the power of King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the other nations. 26 He made them secure on every side. 27
2 Chronicles 32:24
Context32:24 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 28 He prayed to the Lord, who answered him and gave him a sign confirming that he would be healed. 29
2 Chronicles 32:32-33
Context32:32 The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign, including his faithful deeds, are recorded in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz, included in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 30 32:33 Hezekiah passed away 31 and was buried on the ascent of the tombs of the descendants of David. All the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem buried him with great honor. 32 His son Manasseh replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 33:3
Context33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 33 and worshiped 34 them.
1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
2 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”
5 tn Heb “with the words.”
6 tn Or “seer.”
7 tn Heb “filled your hand.”
8 tn Or “tokens of thanks.”
9 tn Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”
10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
11 tn Heb “and Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites.” On the meaning of the idiom “speak to the heart of” here, see HALOT 210 s.v. II דבר 8.d.
12 tn Heb “who demonstrated skill [with] good skill for the
13 tn Heb “and they ate [during] the appointed time [for] seven days.” מוֹעֵד (mo’ed, “appointed time”) is probably an adverbial accusative of time referring to the festival. However, some understand it as metonymically referring to the food eaten during the festival. See BDB 417 s.v.
14 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (ts’on, translated “sheep” twice in this verse) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
15 tn Heb “the assembly.” The pronoun “them” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
16 tn Heb “and Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each in accordance with his service for the priests and for the Levites.”
17 tn Heb “in the gates of the encampments of the
18 tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”
19 tn Or “people.”
20 tn Heb “servants.”
21 tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
22 tn Heb “hand.”
23 tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The
24 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.
25 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the
26 tn Heb “and from the hand of all.”
27 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and he led him from all around.” However, the present translation assumes an emendation to וַיָּנַח לָהֶם מִסָּבִיב (vayyanakh lahem missaviv, “and he gave rest to them from all around”). See 2 Chr 15:15 and 20:30.
28 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”
29 tn Heb “and he spoke to him and a sign he gave to him.”
30 tn Heb “and the rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and his faithful acts, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”
31 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
32 tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”
33 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
34 tn Or “served.”
