Quotes about Worship
Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:20
They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:21
So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They slaughtered the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
- 2 Chronicles 29:22
Then they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them.
- 2 Chronicles 29:23
The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:26
And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:27
The whole assembly was worshiping, the singers were singing, and the trumpeters were playing. All this continued until the burnt offering was completed.
- 2 Chronicles 29:28
When the offerings were completed, the king and all those present with him bowed down and worshiped.
- 2 Chronicles 29:29
Then King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the LORD in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads and worshiped.
- 2 Chronicles 29:30
Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
- 2 Chronicles 29:31
The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:32
And the consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.
- 2 Chronicles 29:33