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23-24 Then the priests brought the male goats in front of the king, and the people gathered together. The goats were the sin offering. The priests put their hands on the goats and killed the goats. They made a sin offering with the goats’ blood on the altar. They did this so that God would forgive the sins of the Israelites. The king said that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all the Israelites.

25 King Hezekiah put the Levites in the Lord’s Temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres as David, Gad, the king’s seer, and the prophet Nathan had commanded. This command came from the Lord through his prophets.

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23 The goats(A) for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands(B) on them. 24 The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone(C) for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.(D)

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

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