2 Chronicles 29 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

they brought.The law only required one bullock for the sins of the high priest, another for the sins of the people, and one he-goat for the sins of the prince:

but Hezekiah offered many more, and the reason appears sufficiently evident:

the law only speaks of the sins of ignorance, but here there were sins of every dye, 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.seven.

Num. 23:1,14,29• ¹And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
¹⁴And he took him to the watchmen's field, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on each altar.
²⁹And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. (Num. 23:1,14,29)

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1 Chron. 15:26• ²⁶And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams. (1 Chron. 15:26)

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Ezra 8:35• ³⁵The children of those that had been carried away, who had come out of the captivity, presented burnt-offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all for a burnt-offering to Jehovah. (Ezra 8:35)

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Job 42:8• ⁸And now, take for yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, for ye have not spoken of me rightly, like my servant Job. (Job 42:8)

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Ezek. 45:23• ²³And the seven days of the feast he shall offer a burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin-offering. (Ezek. 45:23)

a sin offering.

Lev. 4:3‑14• ³if the priest that is anointed sin according to the trespass of the people; then for his sin which he hath sinned shall he present a young bullock without blemish to Jehovah for a sin-offering.
⁴And he shall bring the bullock to the entrance of the tent of meeting before Jehovah; and shall lay his hand on the bullock's head, and slaughter the bullock before Jehovah.
⁵And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it into the tent of meeting;
⁶and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah before the veil of the sanctuary;
⁷and the priest shall put of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense, which is in the tent of meeting, before Jehovah; and he shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
⁸And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering shall he take off from it; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,
⁹and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver which he shall take away as far as the kidneys,
¹⁰as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace-offering; and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt-offering.
¹¹And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung,
¹²even the whole bullock shall he carry forth outside the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt.
¹³And if the whole assembly of Israel sin inadvertently, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the congregation, and they do somewhat against any of all the commandments of Jehovah in things which should not be done, and are guilty;
¹⁴and the sin wherewith they have sinned against it have become known; then the congregation shall present a young bullock for the sin-offering, and shall bring it before the tent of meeting; (Lev. 4:3‑14)

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Num. 15:22‑24• ²²And if ye sin inadvertently, and do not all these commandments, which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses,
²³all that Jehovah hath commanded you through Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment, and henceforward throughout your generations;
²⁴then it shall be, if ought be committed by inadvertence hid from the eyes of the assembly, that the whole assembly shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet odour to Jehovah, and its oblation and its drink-offering according to the ordinance, and one buck of the goats for a sin-offering. (Num. 15:22‑24)

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2 Cor. 5:21• ²¹Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him. (2 Cor. 5:21)

J. N. Darby Translation

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 offere them upon the altar of Jehovah.

JND Translation Notes

Olah, "offer up," as Lev. 14.20.