And all the congregation worshipped ,.... Bowed their heads as a token of divine adoration: and the singers sang ; both with vocal and instrumental music, who were the Levites: and the trumpeters sounded ; their silver trumpets; these were the priests: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished ; with all appertaining to it, the meat and drink offerings. read more
And when they had made an end of offering ,.... Both the sin offering and the burnt offering: the king and all that were with him bowed themselves and worshipped ; towards the place where the ark was, giving thanks for the purging of the temple, and restoring the worship of it. read more
Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord, with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer ,.... Making use of psalms composed by the one and the other; Jarchi takes it to be the one hundred and fifth psalm, which begins, "O give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name"; as in 1 Chronicles 16:7 . and they sang praises with gladness ; the king and all the people: and they bowed their heads and worshipped ; made another adoration of... read more
Then Hezekiah answered and said ,.... Or proceeded to say, as follows: now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord ; having entered anew on the performance of their office, filling their hands with sacrifices, as the words signify: come near, and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord ; which the people were to put into their hands to offer for them: and the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings ; peace offerings, part of which the... read more
And the number of the burnt offerings which the congregation brought were seventy bullocks, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord. Of which they had no part to feast but were wholly devoted to the Lord, by way of thankfulness to him. read more
And the consecrated things ,.... Which were devoted for peace offerings, of which the owners had a part: were six hundred oxen, and three thousand sheep; which was a much lesser number than what were offered upon occasion in the times of David and Solomon, the nation being poorer; and besides, these were only the oblation of two tribes, they of all Israel. read more
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings ,.... Take off the skins of them, which used to be done by the priests, Leviticus 1:6 , wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them till the work was ended ; assisted in the flaying of the sacrifices, until they had gone through the service of this time, and the skins of all the sacrifices were flayed off: and until the other priests had sanctified themselves ; who had been negligent of it, or... read more
And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings, for every burnt offering ,.... Besides the abundance of burnt offerings, whose skins were to be taken off, there were meat offerings and drink offerings to each, which required many hands to prepare them; and also the fat of the peace offerings was to be burnt; which, all together, occasioned a great deal of business: so the service of the house of the Lord was set in order :... read more
And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people ,.... To see things go on so well, which foreboded good unto them: and particularly that God had prepared the people ; disposed and directed their hearts in such a manner as to yield such a cheerful obedience to the will of God, and show such a hearty regard to his worship and service, and the restoration of it: for the thing was done suddenly ; whereby it the more appeared that they were under a divine influence, which so quickly and... read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:20-36
The temple being cleansed, we have here an account of the good use that was immediately made of it. A solemn assembly was called to meet the king at the temple, the very next day (2 Chron. 29:20); and very glad, no doubt, all the good people in Jerusalem were, when it was said, Let us go up to the house of the Lord, Ps. 122:1. As soon as Hezekiah heard that the temple was ready for him he lost no time, but made it appear that he was ready for it. He rose early to go up to the house of the... read more