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24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed[a] that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.

25 Hezekiah[b] stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments just as David, Gad the king’s prophet,[c] and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.) 26 The Levites had[d] David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:24 tn Heb “said.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 29:25 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. 2 Chronicles 29:25 tn Or “seer.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 29:26 tn Heb “stood with” (i.e., stood holding).