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2 Chronicles 29:23

And then they brought foorth the hee goates for the sinne offering before the king and the congregation, & put their handes vpon them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Altar;   Asaph;   Levites;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Goats;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Sin-Offering;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Goat;   Hezekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Laying on of Hands;   Music, Instruments, Dancing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ban;   Hezekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hand;   Hezekiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they brought the goats for the sin offering right into the presence of the king and the congregation, who laid their hands on them.
Hebrew Names Version
They brought near the male goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:
King James Version
And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
English Standard Version
Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,
New Century Version
Then the priests brought the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the people there. After the king and the people put their hands on the goats,
New English Translation
Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them.
Amplified Bible
Then they brought the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them [to symbolize the transference of their sin].
New American Standard Bible
Then they brought the male goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.
World English Bible
They brought near the male goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then they brought the hee goates for the sinne offring before the King and the Congregation, and they layde their hands vpon them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then they had the male goats of the sin offering approach before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.
Berean Standard Bible
Then they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them.
Contemporary English Version
They took the goats to Hezekiah and the worshipers, and they laid their hands on the animals.
Complete Jewish Bible
After bringing the male goats for the sin offering close to the king and the assembly and laying their hands on them,
Darby Translation
And they brought near the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them.
Easy-to-Read Version
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.
George Lamsa Translation
And to bring forth the he-goats before the LORD and before the king and before the congregation of Israel, and to lay hands upon them;
Good News Translation
Finally they took the goats to the king and to the other worshipers, who laid their hands on them.
Lexham English Bible
Then they brought the goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid hands upon them.
Literal Translation
And they brought the he-goats of the sin offering before the king and the congregation, and they laid their hands on them;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye goates to ye synofferynge brought they before the kynge and the congregacio, and layed their handes vpon them:
American Standard Version
And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands upon them:
Bible in Basic English
Then they took the he-goats for the sin-offering, placing them before the king and the meeting of the people, and they put their hands on them:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the congregation, and they laid their hands upon them;
King James Version (1611)
And they brought foorth the hee goats for the sinne offering, before the king and the congregation, and laide their hands vpon them:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they brought the goats for a sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and laid their hands upon them.
English Revised Version
And they brought near the he–goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei brouyten buckis of geet `for synne bifor the kyng and al the multitude, and thei settiden her hondis on tho;
Update Bible Version
And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them:
Webster's Bible Translation
And they brought forth the he-goats [for] the sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
New King James Version
Then they brought out the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.
New Living Translation
The male goats for the sin offering were then brought before the king and the assembly of people, who laid their hands on them.
New Life Bible
Then they brought the male goats of the sin gift in front of the king and the people. They laid their hands on them.
New Revised Standard
Then the male goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly; they laid their hands on them,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they brought near the he-goats for bearing sin, before the king, and the convocation, - and they leaned their hands upon them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:
Revised Standard Version
Then the he-goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands upon them,
Young's Literal Translation
and they bring nigh the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the assembly, and they lay their hands upon them;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then they brought the male goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.

Contextual Overview

20 And Hezekia the king rose earlye, and gathered the lordes of the citie, and went vp to the house of the Lorde. 21 And they brought seuen oxen, seuen rammes, seuen sheepe, and seuen hee goates, to be a sinne offring for the kingdome, for the sanctuary, and for Iuda: And he commaunded the priestes the sonnes of Aaron, to offer them on the aulter of the Lorde. 22 And they slue the oxen, and the priestes receaued the blood and sprinckled it on the aulter: likewyse when they had slaine the rammes, they sprinckled the blood vpon the aulter: They slue also the sheepe, and they sprinckled the blood vpon the aulter. 23 And then they brought foorth the hee goates for the sinne offering before the king and the congregation, & put their handes vpon them. 24 And the priestes slue them, and with the blood of them they clensed the aulter, to make satisfaction for all Israel: for the king comaunded that the burnt offering and the sinne offering shoulde be made for all Israel. 25 And set the Leuites in the house of the Lorde with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes, according to the commaundement of Dauid and of Gad the kinges sear, and Nathan the prophete: For so was the commaundement of the Lord through the hande of his prophetes. 26 And the Leuites stoode, hauing the instrumentes of Dauid: and the priestes helde the trumpettes. 27 And Hezekia commaunded to offer the burnt offring vpon the aulter: And when the burnt offring began, the song of the Lorde began also, and the trumpettes, with the instrumentes that were ordayned by the hand of Dauid king of Israel. 28 And all the congregation worshipped, singing a song, and blowyng with the trumpettes, and all this [continued] vntill the burnt offring was finished. 29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him, bowed them selues, and worshipped.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forth: Heb. near

they laid: Leviticus 1:4, Leviticus 4:15, Leviticus 4:24

Reciprocal: Joel 2:16 - sanctify

Cross-References

Genesis 24:65
(For she said vnto the seruaunt: what man is this, that commeth walkyng against vs in the fielde? And the seruaunt sayd, it is my maister): therfore she toke her vayle and couered her.
Genesis 29:14
To whom Laban sayde: Well, thou art my bone & my fleshe. And he abode with hym the space of a moneth.
Genesis 29:15
And Laban said vnto Iacob: Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therfore serue me for naught? Tell me what shall thy wages be?
Micah 7:5
Let no man beleeue his friende, nor put his confidence in his brother: kepe the doore of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation,.... Which were to make atonement for the sins of both:

and they laid their hands on them; signifying thereby that they were vicarious sacrifices to be offered up in their own room and stead, and that they deserved to die, as these creatures would: transferring as it were hereby their sins unto them, for which they were to be sacrificed, and to make atonement, as an emblem of the imputation of the sins of the Lord's people to Christ, sacrificed in their stead.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The he goats for the sin offering - Rather, “the he goats of the sin offering” - that portion of the Sin offering which had been reserved to the last.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 29:23. They laid their hands upon them — That is, they confessed their sin; and as they had by their transgression forfeited their lives, they now offer these animals to die as vicarious offerings, their life being taken for the life of their owners.


 
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