2 Tawarikh 29:34

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi jumlah imam terlalu sedikit, sehingga mereka tidak sanggup menguliti semua korban bakaran. Oleh sebab itu saudara-saudara mereka, orang-orang Lewi, membantu mereka sampai pekerjaan itu selesai dan sampai para imam menguduskan dirinya. Sebab orang-orang Lewi itu lebih bersungguh-sungguh menguduskan dirinya dari pada para imam.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi jumlah imam terlalu sedikit, sehingga mereka tidak sanggup menguliti semua korban bakaran. Oleh sebab itu saudara-saudara mereka, orang-orang Lewi, membantu mereka sampai pekerjaan itu selesai dan sampai para imam menguduskan dirinya. Sebab orang-orang Lewi itu lebih bersungguh-sungguh menguduskan dirinya dari pada para imam.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi imam-imam kurang banyaknya, sehingga tiada dapat dikulitinya habis segala korban bakaran itu, maka sebab itu mereka itu dibantu oleh saudara-saudara mereka itu, yaitu orang Lewi, sampai sudah pekerjaan itu dan sampai segala imam yang lain itupun sudah menyucikan dirinya, karena rajin hati orang Lewi dalam menyucikan dirinya itu terlebih dari pada rajin segala imam.

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

the priests: Peace offerings, and such like, the Levites might flay and dress; but the whole burnt offerings could only be touched by the priests, except in a case of necessity, such as the present. 2 Chronicles 29:5, 2 Chronicles 30:16, 2 Chronicles 30:17

their brethren: 2 Chronicles 35:11, Numbers 8:15, Numbers 8:19, Numbers 18:3, Numbers 18:6, Numbers 18:7

did help them: Heb. strengthened them

for the Levites: 2 Chronicles 30:3

upright: 1 Chronicles 29:17, Psalms 7:10, Psalms 26:6, Psalms 94:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:10 - sanctify 2 Kings 12:6 - the priests 1 Chronicles 15:14 - sanctified 2 Chronicles 5:11 - sanctified 2 Chronicles 30:15 - were ashamed 2 Chronicles 30:24 - a great 2 Chronicles 35:6 - sanctify Ezra 6:20 - purified together Nehemiah 12:30 - themselves Ezekiel 44:11 - shall slay Acts 6:7 - the priests

Cross-References

Genesis 29:2
And [as] he loked about, beholde, there was a wel in the field, and loe, three flockes of sheepe lay there by, for at that well were the flockes watered: and there was a great stone vpon the well mouth.

Genesis 29:4
And Iacob saide vnto them: My brethren, whence be ye? And they sayde: of Haran are we.

Genesis 29:5
And he sayde vnto them: Knowe ye Laban the sonne of Nachor? They sayde: we knowe hym.

Genesis 29:7
And he sayde: loe [it is] yet a great whyle to nyght, neither is it tyme that the cattell should be gathered together: water ye the sheepe, and go and feede [them.]

Genesis 29:8
And they sayde: we may not vntyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyl they roule the stone from the welles mouth, and so we water our sheepe.

Genesis 29:10
Assoone as Iacob sawe Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother, & the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother, Iacob went & rouled the stone from the welles mouth, & watered the flocke of Laban his mothers brother.

Genesis 29:26
Laban aunswered: It is not the maner of this place, to marry ye younger before the first borne.

Genesis 29:29
And Laban gaue to Rachel his daughter Bilha his handmayde, to be her seruaunt.

Genesis 34:25
And the thirde day, whyles they were sore, two of the sonnes of Iacob, Simeon & Leui Dinas brethren, toke eyther of them his sworde, and went into the citie boldely, and slue all that was male,

Genesis 35:23
The sonnes of Lea: Ruben Iacobs first borne sonne, and Simeon, & Leui, and Iuda, and Isachar, and Zabulon.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings,.... Take off the skins of them, which used to be done by the priests, Leviticus 1:6,

wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them till the work was ended; assisted in the flaying of the sacrifices, until they had gone through the service of this time, and the skins of all the sacrifices were flayed off:

and until the other priests had sanctified themselves; who had been negligent of it, or had defiled themselves by idolatry:

for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests; were more ready to do it, and did it with greater cheerfulness and good will; were not backward to do it, but did it at once.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Levites were more upright etc - See the marginal reference. Urijah, the high priest, had participated to some extent in the impieties of Ahaz 2 Kings 16:10-16. He and many of the priests may, therefore, have looked coldly on the reforming zeal of Hezekiah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 29:34. They could not flay all the burnt-offerings — Peace-offerings, and such like, the Levites might flay and dress; but the whole burnt-offerings, that is, those which were entirely consumed on the altar, could be touched only by the priests, unless in a case of necessity, such as is mentioned here.

The Levites were more upright in heart — The priests seem to have been very backward in this good work; the Levites were more ready to help forward this glorious reformation. Why the former should have been so backward is not easy to tell; but it appears to have been the fact. Indeed, it often happens that the higher orders of the priesthood are less concerned for the prosperity of true religion than the lower. Why is this? They are generally too busy about worldly things, or too much satisfied with secular emoluments. A rich priesthood is not favourable either to the spread or depth of religion. Earthly gratifications are often put in the place of Divine influences: it is almost a miracle to see a very rich man deeply interested in behalf either of his own soul, or the souls of others.