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2 Chronicles 29:7
2 Chronicles 29:7 is verse 7 of 2 Chronicles chapter 29, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.
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2 Chronicles 29:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 “Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
6 For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
7 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.
8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.
9 For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
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.
Leviticus 24:2“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
Leviticus 24:3Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.
Leviticus 24:4He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
Leviticus 24:5You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
Leviticus 24:6and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
Leviticus 24:7And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 24:8Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.
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.
2 Kings 16:18And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.
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.