2 Chronicles 29:3
In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street.
Cross References
2 Kings 16:14But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from the face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the place of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar toward the north.
2 Chronicles 29:7They have shut up the doors that were in tile porch, and put out the lamps. and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
Psalms 101:3I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.
Matthew 6:33Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 29:2-12
Hezekiah's Good Reign. ( b. c. 726.) 1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , according to all that David his father had done. 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. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together… Read the whole commentary →