2 Chronicles 29:3 - The Message

^3-9 In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah, having first repaired the doors of The Temple of God, threw them open to the public. He assembled the priests and Levites in the court on the east side and said, “Levites, listen! Consecrate yourselves and consecrate The Temple of God—give this much-defiled place a good housecleaning. Our ancestors went wrong and lived badly before God—they discarded him, turned away from this house where we meet with God, and walked off. They boarded up the doors, turned out the lights, and canceled all the acts of worship of the God of Israel in the holy Temple. And because of that, God’s anger flared up and he turned those people into a public exhibit of disaster, a moral history lesson—look and read! This is why our ancestors were killed, and this is why our wives and sons and daughters were taken prisoner and made slaves.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord [which his father had closed] and repaired them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.

Common English Bible

³ In the very first year of his rule, during the first month, Hezekiah reopened the doors of the LORD’s temple, having repaired them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ In the first year and month of his reign, he opened the double doors of the house of the Lord, and he repaired them.

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