2 Chronicles 29:7
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:7 in other translations
| BSB | They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel. |
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| WEB | Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. |
| ASV | Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel. |
| YLT | ‘Also--they have shut the doors of the porch, and quench the lamps, and perfume they have not made, and burnt-offering have not caused to ascend in the sanctuary to the God of Israel, |
| DARBY | Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered up burnt-offerings in the sanctuary to the God of Israel. |
| BBE | The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place. |
| Webster | Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. |
What does 2 Chronicles 29:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 29:6-7
6-7. our fathers have trespassed--Ahaz and the generation contemporary with him were specially meant, for they "turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord," and whether or not they turned east to the rising sun, they abandoned the worship of God. They "shut up the doors of the porch," so that the sacred ritual was entirely discontinued.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 29:1-19
When Hezekiah came to the crown, he applied at once to work reform. Those who begin with God, begin at the right end of their work, and it will prosper accordingly. Those that turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. There are still such neglects, if the word be not duly read and opened, for that was signified by the lighting the lamps, and also if prayers and praise be not…
2 Chronicles 29:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 29:7
- 2 Chronicles 28:24
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
- Leviticus 24:2-8
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord continually. And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. …
- 2 Chronicles 29:3
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
- 2 Kings 16:17-18
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones. And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the Lord for the king of Assyria.
- Malachi 1:10
Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
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3; 28:24; Le 24:2-8; 2Ki 16:17,18; Mal 1:10
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
- 2 Chronicles 29:7
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:8
Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y aun cerraron las puertas del pórtico, y apagaron las lámparas; no quemaron perfume, ni sacrificaron holocausto en el santuario al Dios de Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Même ils ont fermé les portes du portique, et ont éteint les lampes, et n’ont pas fait fumer l’encens, et n’ont pas offert l’holocauste dans le lieu saint au Dieu d’Israël. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | auch haben sie die Türen der Halle verschlossen, und die Lampen ausgelöscht, und dem Gott Israels kein Räucherwerk geräuchert und kein Brandopfer im Heiligtum dargebracht. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Clauserunt ostia quæ erant in porticu, et extinxerunt lucernas, incensumque non adoleverunt, et holocausta non obtulerunt in sanctuario Deo Israël. |