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Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple

2 Chronicles 29:3

In 11 translations

BSB
In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
KJV
¶ He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
WEB
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house and repaired them.
ASV
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.
LSV
He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, has opened the doors of the house of YHWH, and strengthens them,
YLT
He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, hath opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and strengtheneth them,
DBY
He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.
DRC
In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
GNV
He opened the doores of the house of the Lord in the first yeere, and in the first moneth of his reigne, and repared them.
JPS
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
LXXE
And it came to pass, when he was established over his kingdom, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

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Original-language editions

WLC
ה֣וּא בַשָּׁנָה֩ הָרִאשׁוֹנָ֨ה לְמָלְכ֜וֹ בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן פָּתַ֛ח אֶת־דַּלְת֥וֹת בֵּית־יְהוָ֖ה וַֽיְחַזְּקֵֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἔστη ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ μηνὶ τῷ πρώτῳ ἀνέῳξε τὰς θύρας οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ ἐπεσκεύασεν αὐτάς.

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  • 2 Chronicles 28:24Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chronicles 29:7They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.
  • Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
  • Psalms 101:3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
  • 2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the…
  • Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  • Galatians 1:16to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,
  • 2 Kings 16:14–18He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north side of the new altar. Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah…

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