2 Chronicles 29 — Hezekiah cleanses the temple and restores its service — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 29 — Hezekiah cleanses the temple and restores its service
Hezekiah’s accession
Verse 29:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:1] Hezekiah became king at twenty-five years of age, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:1] Hezekiah became king at twenty-five years of age, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abba daughter of Zacharias.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The mother's name appears as Abijah in Hebrew and Abba in Greek; the reign data agree.
Verse 29:2 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:2] He did what was right in YHWH's eyes, according to everything David his father had done.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:2] He did what was right before the Lord, according to everything David his father had done.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both give an unqualified comparison with David's conduct here.
The command to cleanse the house
Verse 29:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:3] In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of YHWH's house and repaired them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:3] When he was established over his kingdom, in the first month, he opened the doors of the Lord's house and repaired them.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew explicitly specifies the first year; Greek describes his establishment as king without numbering the year.
Verse 29:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:4] He brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:4] He brought in the priests and Levites and stationed them on the side toward the east.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew identifies an eastern square; Greek identifies the eastern side.
Verse 29:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:5] He said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves and consecrate the house of YHWH, the God of your fathers. Bring the defilement out of the holy place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:5] He said to them, “Listen, Levites! Now purify yourselves and purify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers. Cast the uncleanness out of the holy places.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew uses consecration language and singular holy place; Greek uses purification and plural holy places.
Verse 29:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:6] For our fathers acted unfaithfully and did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from YHWH's dwelling, and turned their backs.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:6] For our fathers departed and did what was evil before the Lord. They abandoned Him, turned their face away from the Lord's tent, and turned their backs.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek lacks our God in the first divine designation and uses tent for dwelling; both retain the face-and-back imagery.
Verse 29:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:7] They also shut the vestibule's doors, extinguished the lamps, burned no incense, and offered no burnt offering in the holy place to the God of Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:7] They shut the sanctuary's doors, extinguished the lamps, burned no incense, and brought no burnt offerings in the holy place to Israel's God.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew identifies the vestibule, Greek the sanctuary, and Greek pluralizes the offerings. The Greek ending can also associate holy directly with God; the locative sanctuary reading is retained provisionally.
Verse 29:8 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:8] YHWH's wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, desolation, and hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:8] The Lord became fiercely angry with Judah and Jerusalem and gave them over to terror, disappearance, and hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both portray visible ruin and public horror; Greek expresses the desolation with a word for disappearance or obliteration.
Verse 29:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:9] Look, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, daughters, and wives are in captivity because of this.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:9] Look, your fathers have been struck by the sword, and your sons, daughters, and wives are captive in a land not their own, as they are even now.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew consistently says our and explains the cause; Greek says your and adds the foreign land and continuing captivity.
Verse 29:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:10] Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with YHWH, the God of Israel, so that His burning anger may turn away from us.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:10] In view of these things, it is now in my heart to establish a covenant of the Lord, the God of Israel, and He will turn His furious wrath away from us.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds the opening connection and makes the Lord the explicit agent turning away wrath; Hebrew makes His wrath the subject of turning.
Verse 29:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:11] My sons, do not now be negligent, for YHWH has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, and to be His ministers and burners of incense.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:11] Now do not slacken, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before Him, to minister and be His ministers and burners of incense.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek lacks my sons and the direct object Him after the first serving verb; both stress the chosen ministry.
The Levites and the completed cleansing
Verse 29:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:12] The Levites rose: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah from the Kohathites; Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel from Merari's sons; Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah from the Gershonites;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:12] The Levites rose: Maath son of Amasi and Joel son of Azarias from Kaath's sons; Kis son of Abdi and Azarias son of Jallelel from Merari's sons; Joa son of Zemmath and Jodan son of Joacha from the sons of Gedsoni;
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The six-person grouping agrees, but Eden becomes Jodan, and Joah's two occurrences have distinct Greek forms, Joa and Joacha.
Verse 29:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:13] Shimri and Jeiel from Elizaphan's sons; Zechariah and Mattaniah from Asaph's sons;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:13] Sambri and Iiel from Elisaphan's sons; Zacharias and Matthanias from Asaph's sons;
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The two family groups and paired representatives correspond, with differing personal-name forms.
Verse 29:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:14] Jehiel and Shimei from Heman's sons; Shemaiah and Uzziel from Jeduthun's sons.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:14] Iiel and Semei from Heman's sons; Samaias and Oziel from Jeduthun's sons.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both complete the list with the same two musical families and their paired representatives.
Verse 29:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:15] They gathered their brothers, consecrated themselves, and came according to the king's command, by YHWH's words, to cleanse YHWH's house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:15] They gathered their brothers and purified themselves according to the king's command, through the Lord's ordinance, to cleanse the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek lacks the separate they came and uses a singular ordinance for Hebrew words.
Verse 29:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:16] The priests entered the interior of YHWH's house to cleanse it. They brought all the uncleanness they found in YHWH's temple out into the courtyard of YHWH's house. The Levites received it to carry it outside to the Kidron Wadi.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:16] The priests went inside the Lord's house to purify it. They cast out all the uncleanness found in the Lord's house into the courtyard of the Lord's house, and the Levites received it to cast it outside into the Kedron torrent.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both distinguish the priests' interior work from the Levites' removal to the watercourse; Greek repeats house where Hebrew varies temple and house.
Verse 29:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:17] They began consecrating on the first day of the first month. On the eighth day of the month they reached YHWH's vestibule. They consecrated YHWH's house for eight days and finished on the sixteenth day of the first month.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:17] They began purifying on the first day, the new moon of the first month. On the eighth day of the month they entered the Lord's sanctuary. They purified the Lord's house in eight days and finished on the sixteenth day of the first month.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek explicitly names the new moon and identifies the eighth-day destination as the sanctuary rather than the vestibule. All numbered days agree.
Verse 29:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:18] They went inside to King Hezekiah and said, “We have cleansed all YHWH's house: the altar of burnt offering and all its articles, and the table of the arranged bread and all its articles.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:18] They went inside to King Hezekiah and said, “We have purified everything in the Lord's house: the altar of burnt offering and its articles, and the table of presentation and its articles.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew cleanses the whole house and repeats all with both sets of articles; Greek purifies everything in the house and does not repeat all.
Verse 29:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:19] All the articles King Ahaz discarded in his reign through his unfaithfulness we have prepared and consecrated. Look, they are before YHWH's altar.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:19] All the articles King Ahaz defiled in his reign through his apostasy we have prepared and purified. Look, they are before the Lord's altar.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew describes the articles as discarded; Greek describes them as defiled.
The offerings for the kingdom and Israel
Verse 29:20 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:20] King Hezekiah rose early, gathered the city's princes, and went up to YHWH's house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:20] King Hezekiah rose early, gathered the city's rulers, and went up to the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both describe the king's gathering and ascent.
Verse 29:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:21] They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. He told Aaron's sons, the priests, to offer them on YHWH's altar.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:21] He brought up seven calves, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for sin, for the kingdom, the holy places, and Israel. He told Aaron's sons, the priests, to go up onto the Lord's altar.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has Judah, Greek Israel. Hebrew commands offering on the altar; Greek grammatically commands the priests to ascend it. All four groups number seven, with plural bringers in Hebrew and singular in Greek.
Verse 29:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:22] They slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and dashed it against the altar. They slaughtered the rams and dashed the blood against the altar. They slaughtered the lambs and dashed the blood against the altar.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:22] They sacrificed the calves, and the priests received the blood and poured it onto the altar. They sacrificed the rams and poured the blood onto the altar. They sacrificed the lambs and poured the blood around the altar.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew repeats the same blood-dashing action three times; Greek varies pouring onto the altar and pouring around it.
Verse 29:23 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:23] They brought the goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:23] They brought the male goats for sin before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both place the goats before king and assembly for the laying on of hands.
Verse 29:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:24] The priests slaughtered them and applied their blood as a sin offering to the altar, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:24] The priests sacrificed them and made propitiation with their blood at the altar, and made propitiation for all Israel, because the king had said, “The burnt offering and the offerings for sin are for all Israel.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew distinguishes the blood's sin-offering application from its atoning purpose; Greek repeats exilaskomai, rendered propitiation in its ritual context. Greek's direct object blood is expressed instrumentally in English without implying a separate theory of its efficacy.
Music and worship
Verse 29:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:25] He stationed the Levites in YHWH's house with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the command of David, Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet, for the command came from YHWH through His prophets.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:25] He stationed the Levites in the Lord's house with cymbals, nablas, and kinyras, according to the command of King David, Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet, for the ordinance came by the Lord's command through the prophets.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds David's royal title, retains borrowed instrument names, and says the prophets rather than His prophets.
Verse 29:26 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:26] The Levites stood with David's instruments, and the priests with trumpets.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:26] The Levites stood with David's instruments, and the priests with trumpets.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both distinguish Levitical instruments and priestly trumpets.
Verse 29:27 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:27] Hezekiah ordered the burnt offering to be offered on the altar. When the burnt offering began, YHWH's song began, with the trumpets and the accompaniment of the instruments of David king of Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:27] Hezekiah ordered the burnt offering to be offered on the altar. When they began offering the burnt offering, they began singing to the Lord, and the trumpets accompanied the instruments of David king of Israel.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew makes YHWH's song the subject of beginning; Greek explicitly introduces people singing to the Lord. Both coordinate sacrifice and music.
Verse 29:28 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:28] The whole assembly worshiped, the song was sung, and the trumpets sounded, all until the burnt offering was finished.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:28] The whole assembly worshiped, the psalm singers sang, and the trumpets sounded until the burnt offering was finished.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew describes the song being sung; Greek explicitly names psalm singers. The duration agrees.
Verse 29:29 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:29] When they finished offering, the king and everyone present with him bowed down and worshiped.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:29] When they finished offering, the king and everyone present bent down and worshiped.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek lacks the explicit with him; the collective bowing agrees.
Verse 29:30 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:30] King Hezekiah and the princes told the Levites to praise YHWH with the words of David and Asaph the seer. They praised with rejoicing, bowed low, and worshiped.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:30] King Hezekiah and the rulers told the Levites to hymn the Lord with the words of David and Asaph the prophet. They hymned with rejoicing, fell down, and worshiped.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Asaph is seer in Hebrew, prophet in Greek; bowing low becomes falling down.
The people’s offerings and joy
Verse 29:31 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:31] Hezekiah answered, “Now you have filled your hands for YHWH. Draw near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to YHWH's house.” The assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and every willing heart brought burnt offerings.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:31] Hezekiah answered, “Now you have filled your hands for the Lord. Draw near and bring sacrifices and offerings of praise to the Lord's house.” The assembly brought sacrifices and offerings of praise to the Lord's house, and everyone eager in heart brought burnt offerings.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek repeats to the Lord's house in the response and uses praise for thanksgiving. Filling the hands retains the consecration idiom shared by both.
Verse 29:32 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:32] The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy cattle, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:32] The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy calves, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The three quantities agree, with cattle and calves as the respective terms.
Verse 29:33 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:33] The consecrated offerings were six hundred cattle and three thousand sheep.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:33] The consecrated animals were six hundred calves and three thousand sheep.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both give the same supplementary offering totals.
Verse 29:34 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:34] But the priests were too few to skin all the burnt offerings. Their Levitical brothers helped them until the work was finished and the priests had consecrated themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart about consecrating themselves than the priests.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:34] But the priests were few and could not skin the burnt offering. Their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was completed and the priests were purified, for the Levites purified themselves more eagerly than the priests.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew emphasizes uprightness of heart in consecration; Greek emphasizes eagerness in purification. Greek has a collective singular offering and no all.
Verse 29:35 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:35] There were also abundant burnt offerings, with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for the burnt offering. Thus the service of YHWH's house was established.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:35] The burnt offering was abundant, with the fat for completing the salvation offering and the libations of the burnt offering. Thus the work in the Lord's house was set right.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds completion language to the salvation-offering expression corresponding to Hebrew peace offerings. Hebrew service becomes Greek work.
Verse 29:36 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 29:36] Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had prepared for the people, for the matter had happened suddenly.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 29:36] Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had prepared for the people, for the matter had happened suddenly.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both attribute the unexpectedly rapid outcome to God's preparation for the people.