23The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.


In Context

20 Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials together and went up to the temple of the Lord .

21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. The king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer these on the altar of the Lord .

22 So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and sprinkled it on the altar; next they slaughtered the rams and sprinkled their blood on the altar; then they slaughtered the lambs and sprinkled their blood on the altar.

23 The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.

24 The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

25 He stationed the Levites in the temple of the Lord with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king's seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets.

2nd Chronicles 29:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:23And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

29:23And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

29:23And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands upon them:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:23And they brought near the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

29:23And they brought near the he-goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:23And they brought forth the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:23They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

29:23and they bring nigh the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the assembly, and they lay their hands upon them;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:23And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands on them: