2 Crónicas 29

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1 Ezequías tenía veinticinco años cuando comenzó a reinar y reinó veintinueve años en Jerusalén. Su madre se llamaba Abías y era hija de Zacarías. 2 Hizo lo recto ante el Señor, como su antepasado David. 3 En el primer mes del primer año de su reinado abrió las puertas del templo del Señor y las reparó. 4 Reunió a los sacerdotes y levitas en la plaza del lado este 5 y les dijo: «Escúchenme, levitas. Conságrense y consagren el templo del Señor, Dios de sus antepasados. Saquen todo lo impuro del santuario. 6 Nuestros antepasados pecaron y actuaron mal ante el Señor nuestro Dios. Lo abandonaron, se apartaron del templo del Señor y le dieron la espalda. 7 Cerraron las puertas de su templo y apagaron las lámparas. No quemaron incienso ni ofrecieron sacrificios al Dios de Israel en su santuario. 8 Por eso la ira del Señor ha caído sobre Judá y Jerusalén. Los ha convertido en motivo de espanto, asombro y vergüenza, como ustedes han visto. 9 Por eso nuestros padres murieron a espada, y nuestros hijos, hijas y esposas fueron llevados cautivos. 10 Ahora quiero hacer un pacto con el Señor, Dios de Israel, para que su ardiente ira se aparte de nosotros. 11 Hijos míos, no sean negligentes. El Señor los ha escogido para presentarse ante él, servirle y quemar ofrendas para él». 12 Los levitas se dispusieron a trabajar. De los descendientes de Coat: Mahat, hijo de Amasai, y Joel, hijo de Azarías. De los descendientes de Merari: Cis, hijo de Abdi, y Azarías, hijo de Jehalelel. De los descendientes de Gersón: Joa, hijo de Zima, y Edén, hijo de Joa. 13 De los descendientes de Elzafán: Simri y Jeuel. De los descendientes de Asaf: Zacarías y Matanías. 14 De los descendientes de Hemán: Jehuel y Simei. De los descendientes de Jedutún: Semaías y Uziel. 15 Reunieron a sus hermanos, se consagraron y entraron a purificar el templo del Señor, según la orden que el rey había dado conforme a la palabra del Señor. 16 Los sacerdotes entraron en el interior del templo del Señor para purificarlo. Sacaron al atrio exterior todo lo impuro que encontraron en él. Los levitas lo recogieron y lo llevaron al arroyo Cedrón. 17 Comenzaron a consagrar el templo el primer día del primer mes. El día ocho llegaron al pórtico del Señor. Durante otros ocho días consagraron el templo del Señor y terminaron el día dieciséis del primer mes. 18 Fueron a decirle al rey Ezequías: «Hemos purificado todo el templo del Señor, el altar de los holocaustos con todos sus utensilios y la mesa del pan santo con todos sus utensilios. 19 También hemos reparado y consagrado todos los utensilios que el rey Acaz desechó cuando pecó durante su reinado. Ya están delante del altar del Señor». 20 El rey Ezequías se levantó temprano, reunió a los jefes de la ciudad y fue al templo del Señor. 21 Llevaron siete bueyes, siete carneros, siete corderos y siete machos cabríos como ofrenda por el pecado del reino, del santuario y de Judá. El rey ordenó a los sacerdotes, descendientes de Aarón, ofrecerlos en el altar del Señor. 22 Mataron los bueyes, y los sacerdotes derramaron su sangre contra el altar. Luego mataron los carneros y derramaron su sangre contra el altar. También mataron los corderos y derramaron su sangre contra el altar. 23 Llevaron los machos cabríos para la ofrenda por el pecado ante el rey y la asamblea, y pusieron las manos sobre ellos. 24 Los sacerdotes los mataron y ofrecieron su sangre sobre el altar para hacer expiación por todo Israel. El rey había ordenado que el holocausto y la ofrenda por el pecado fueran por todo Israel. 25 El rey puso a los levitas en el templo del Señor con instrumentos de bronce y de cuerdas, según lo habían ordenado David, Gad, el vidente del rey, y el profeta Natán. Era una orden del Señor dada por medio de sus profetas. 26 Los levitas ocuparon sus puestos con los instrumentos de David, y los sacerdotes con las trompetas. 27 Ezequías ordenó ofrecer el holocausto en el altar. Al comenzar el holocausto, comenzó también el canto al Señor, acompañado de trompetas y de todos los instrumentos de David, rey de Israel. 28 Toda la asamblea adoró mientras se oían los cantos y las trompetas. Así continuaron hasta que terminó el holocausto. 29 Cuando terminó la ofrenda, el rey y todos los que estaban con él inclinaron la cabeza y adoraron. 30 El rey Ezequías y los jefes ordenaron a los levitas alabar a Dios con las palabras de David y del vidente Asaf. Ellos cantaron alabanzas con alegría, inclinaron la cabeza y adoraron. 31 Ezequías dijo: «Ahora que se han consagrado al Señor, acérquense y traigan sacrificios y ofrendas de alabanza al templo del Señor». Todo el pueblo llevó sacrificios y ofrendas de alabanza, y los que lo deseaban ofrecieron holocaustos. 32 El pueblo llevó setenta bueyes, cien carneros y doscientos corderos, todos para holocaustos al Señor. 33 Las ofrendas consagradas fueron seiscientos bueyes y tres mil ovejas. 34 No había suficientes sacerdotes para cortar y preparar todos los animales de los holocaustos. Sus hermanos levitas los ayudaron hasta que terminó el trabajo y los sacerdotes se consagraron. Los levitas habían mostrado más disposición para consagrarse que los sacerdotes. 35 Había muchos holocaustos, además de la grasa de las ofrendas de paz y las ofrendas de vino de cada holocausto. Así se restableció el servicio del templo del Señor. 36 Ezequías y todo el pueblo se alegraron por lo que Dios había preparado para el pueblo, pues todo se había hecho de repente.

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2 Crónicas 29:1

Introduction

Hezekiah's good reign, 2Chr 29:1, 2Chr 29:2. He opens and repairs the doors of the temple, 2Chr 29:3. He assembles and exhorts the priests and Levites, and proposes to renew the covenant with the Lord, 2Chr 29:4-11. They all sanctify themselves and cleanse the temple, 2Chr 29:12-17. They inform the king of their progress, 2Chr 29:18, 2Chr 29:19. He collects the rulers of the people: and they offer abundance of sin-offerings, and burnt-offerings, and worship the Lord, 2Chr 29:20-30. Every part of the Divine service is arranged, and Hezekiah and all the people rejoice, 2Chr 29:31-36.

2 Crónicas 29:2-7

Verse 2

He did that which was right - See the note on 2Kgs 18:3.

2 Crónicas 29:8-9

Verse 8

He hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment - He probably refers here chiefly to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites in which a hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners; see the preceding chapter, 2Chr 28:6-8 (note).

2 Crónicas 29:10-15

Verse 10

To make a covenant - To renew the covenant under which the whole people were constantly considered, and of which circumcision was the sign; and the spirit of which was, I will be your God: Ye shall be my people.

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Verse 16

And the priests went - The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labor they spent eight days. Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but as the Levites had no right to enter the temple, the priests carried all the dirt and rubbish to the porch, whence they were collected by the Levites, carried away, and cast into the brook Kidron; in this work eight days more were occupied, and thus the temple was purified in sixteen days.

2 Crónicas 29:17-18

Verse 17

On the first day - "They began on the first day of the first month Nisan." - Targum.

2 Crónicas 29:19-20

Verse 19

All the vessels, which King Ahaz - The Targum says, "All the vessels which King Ahaz had polluted and rendered abominable by strange idols, when he reigned in his transgression against the Word of the Lord, we have collected and hidden; and others have we prepared to replace them; and they are now before the Lord."

2 Crónicas 29:21-22

Verse 21

They brought seven bullocks, etc. - This was more than the law required; see Lev 4:13, etc. It ordered one calf or ox for the sins of the people, and one he-goat for the sins of the prince; but Hezekiah here offers many more. And the reason appears sufficiently evident: the law speaks only of sins of ignorance; but here were sins of every kind and every die - idolatry, apostasy from the Divine worship, profanation of the temple, etc., etc. The sin-offerings, we are informed, were offered, first for the Kingdom - for the transgressions of the king and his family; secondly, for the Sanctuary, which had been defiled and polluted, and for the priests who had been profane, negligent, and unholy; and, finally, for Judah - for the whole mass of the people, who had been led away into every kind of abomination by the above examples.

2 Crónicas 29:23-24

Verse 23

They laid their hands upon them - That is, they confessed their sin; and as they had by their transgression forfeited their lives, they now offer these animals to die as vicarious offerings, their life being taken for the life of their owners.

2 Crónicas 29:25-33

Verse 25

With cymbals, with psalteries - Moses had not appointed any musical instruments to be used in the divine worship; there was nothing of the kind under the first tabernacle. The trumpets or horns then used were not for song nor for praise, but as we use bells, i.e., to give notice to the congregation of what they were called to perform, etc. But David did certainly introduce many instruments of music into God's worship, for which we have already seen he was solemnly reproved by the prophet Amos, Amo 6:1-6. Here, however, the author of this book states he had the commandment of the prophet Nathan, and Gad the king's seer; and this is stated to have been the commandment of the Lord by his prophets: but the Syriac and Arabic give this a different turn - "Hezekiah appointed the Levites in the house of the Lord, with instruments of music, and the sound of harps, and with the Hymns of David, and the Hymns of Gad, the king's prophet, and of Nathan, the king's prophet: for David sang the praises of the Lord his God, as from the mouth of the prophets." It was by the hand or commandment of the Lord and his prophets that the Levites should praise the Lord; for so the Hebrew text may be understood: and it was by the order of David that so many instruments of music should be introduced into the Divine service. But were it even evident, which it is not, either from this or any other place in the sacred writings, that instruments of music were prescribed by Divine authority under the law, could this be adduced with any semblance of reason, that they ought to be used in Christian worship? No: the whole spirit, soul, and genius of the Christian religion are against this: and those who know the Church of God best, and what constitutes its genuine spiritual state, know that these things have been introduced as a substitute for the life and power of religion; and that where they prevail most, there is least of the power of Christianity. Away with such portentous baubles from the worship of that infinite Spirit who requires his followers to worship him in spirit and in truth, for to no such worship are those instruments friendly. See the use of the trumpets in the sanctuary, Num 10:2 (note), etc., and the notes there.

2 Crónicas 29:34-35

Verse 34

They could not flay all the burnt-offerings - Peace-offerings, and such like, the Levites might flay and dress; but the whole burnt-offerings, that is, those which were entirely consumed on the altar, could be touched only by the priests, unless in a case of necessity, such as is mentioned here.

The Levites were more upright in heart - The priests seem to have been very backward in this good work; the Levites were more ready to help forward this glorious reformation. Why the former should have been so backward is not easy to tell; but it appears to have been the fact. Indeed, it often happens that the higher orders of the priesthood are less concerned for the prosperity of true religion than the lower. Why is this? They are generally too busy about worldly things, or too much satisfied with secular emoluments. A rich priesthood is not favorable either to the spread or depth of religion. Earthly gratifications are often put in the place of Divine influences: it is almost a miracle to see a very rich man deeply interested in behalf either of his own soul, or the souls of others.

2 Crónicas 29:36

Verse 36

And Hezekiah rejoiced - Both he and the people rejoiced that God had prepared their hearts to bring about so great a reformation in so short a time; for, it is added, the thing was done suddenly. The king's example and influence were here, under God, the grand spring of all those mighty and effectual movements. What amazing power and influence has God lodged with kings! They can sway a whole empire nearly as they please; and when they declare themselves in behalf of religion, they have the people uniformly on their side. Kings, on this very ground, are no indifferent beings; they must be either a great curse or a great blessing to the people whom they govern.

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