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2 Chronicles 29:3
In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes Hezekiah’s administrative actions at the start of his reign, positioned between his reputation for David-like righteousness and his subsequent summons of the priests and Levites.
The words — פָּתַח (pa.Tach) translates literally as "he opened," while הָ/רִאשׁוֹנָ֨ה (ha./ri.sho.Nah) means "the first," anchoring the physical repair to a precise chronological marker.
The thread — The act of opening directly reverses 2 Chronicles 28:24, where Ahaz shut the temple doors, and sets up 2 Chronicles 29:7, which catalogs the prior ritual shutdown.
Why it lands — The text requires a reader to evaluate leadership by the immediate restoration of worship infrastructure rather than by later political or theological developments.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 28:24 Then 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.
- 2 Chronicles 29:7 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.
- Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- 2 Kings 16:14 He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north side of the new altar.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
- Psalms 101:3 I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Galatians 1:16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,