2 Chronicles 29:7

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`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,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Chronicles 29:7 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 29:38This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
  2. Exodus 30:7And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
  3. Leviticus 24:2“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
  4. Leviticus 24:4He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
  5. 2 Kings 16:17King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
  6. 2 Chronicles 28:24Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.
  7. 2 Chronicles 29:3In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
  8. Malachi 1:10“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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