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2 Chronicles 29:21

in 2 Chronicles 29

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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he-goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Jehovah.

KJV

And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 29

Commentary

9 notes on this verse
Hezekiah commenced his restoration of the Yahweh-worship with an unusually comprehensive sin-offering, embracing the four chief kinds of sacrificial animals, and seven animals of each kind: he intended to atone for the sins, both conscious and unconscious, of the king, the priests, the people of Judah, and the people of Israel. After the completion of these expiatory rites, he proceeded to the offering of the burnt-offering 2Ch 29:27.

This site's exposition

rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city

on 2 Chronicles 29:20-21

Four kinds of victim, seven of each, a number Wesley reads as the customary figure for sacred completeness given how many and how varied the kingdom's sins had grown under Ahaz. The offering's stated scope widens in one verse from the kingdom to the sanctuary to Judah, and verse 24 widens it once more; the sin offering is building toward Israel as a whole before it gets there. Hezekiah himself commands the sons of Aaron to the altar, the king directing worship without performing the priest's part, the line Uzziah crossed and never survived at 26:16-21.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening5 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Seven - The number seven is customary in sacred matters, and is here used in regard of the vast numbers and various kinds of sins, the guilt whereof yet lay upon the kingdom, which was now to be expiated. Indeed, in case of one particular sin of ignorance done by the people, there was but one bullock to be offered, but here the sins were many and presumptuous.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), that is, to make atonement for the sins of princes, priests, and people, for they had all corrupted their way. The law of Moses appointed sacrifices to make atonement for the sins of the whole congregation ( Lev. iv.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the L ORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), because the sins of the congregation had been very great and long continued in. Seven is a number of perfection. Our great sin-offering is but one, yet that one perfects for ever those that are sanctified.

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And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah,....
2 more voices on this verse

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

At the close of the special services of the occasion, namely, the offering of atonement sacrifices, the king and all civic rulers who were present joined in the worship.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

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.

The words behind it

25 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבִ֣יאוּand they brought

    vaiyaviuH9352568 times

  • פָרִים־young bulls

    farim-H6499132 times

  • שִׁבְעָה֩seven

    shivahH7651394 times

  • וְאֵילִ֨יםand rams

    veeilimH352187 times

  • שִׁבְעָ֜הseven

    shivahH7651394 times

  • וּכְבָשִׂ֣יםand lambs

    ukhevasimH3532107 times

  • שִׁבְעָ֗הseven

    shivahH7651394 times

  • וּצְפִירֵ֨יand he-goats of

    utzefireiH6842

  • עִזִּ֤יםgoats

    ʾizimH5795

  • שִׁבְעָה֙seven

    shivahH7651394 times

  • לְחַטָּ֔אתto a sin offering

    lechatatH2403295 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הַמַּמְלָכָ֥הthe kingdom

    hamamlakhahH4467117 times

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H59215755 times

  • הַמִּקְדָּ֖שׁthe sanctuary

    hamikdashH472075 times

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H59215755 times

  • יְהוּדָ֑הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • וַיֹּ֗אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • לִבְנֵ֤יto [the] descendants of

    livneiH11214930 times

  • אַהֲרֹן֙Aaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548750 times

  • לְהַעֲל֖וֹתto offer up

    lehaalotH5927890 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • מִזְבַּ֥ח[the] altar of

    mizbachH4196401 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Job 42:8

    So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 23:1

      Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

    • James 5:16

      Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

    • Genesis 20:17

      Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—

    • Job 22:30

      He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

    • Psalms 103:10

      He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 45:23

    Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 23:1–2

      Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Leviticus 23:8

      For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”

    • Job 42:8

      So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer…

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.