Hezekiah Ruled 29 Years And Brought Revival

II Chronicles 29:1–19
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Hezekiah was 25 years old when he became king, and he ruled in for 29 years (v. 1). He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as king David had done (v. 2). Through him revival came to the land. Hezekiah unlocked and repaired the doors that Ahaz had shut and locked when he was king (v. 3). He calls the priests and Levites to cleanse and purify themselves and the temple (vv. 4-5). Some of the ancestors had disobeyed the Lord by turning their backs on Him, locking the doors of the temple, letting the lamps go out and stopped offering sacrifices (vv. 6-7). The Lord had become terribly angry at the people of Judah and Jerusalem and had given them up to trouble, desolation, and jeering. Their sons, daughters, and wives were in captivity (vv. 8-11).

As soon as Hezekiah finished talking, the Levite leaders went to work (vv. 12-14). These leaders gathered all the Levites together for a purification ceremony (v. 15). Then they began to purify the temple according to the law of the Lord. The priests went into the Temple and carried out everything that was unclean (v. 16).  It took them one week to purify the courtyards of the temple and another week to purify the temple (v. 17). After they had finished their work, they went back to Hezekiah and told him what they had done (v. 18). They said, “The entire temple is now pure again, and so is the altar and its utensils as well as the table of shew bread and its utensils.” They also told him how they had brought back all the things that king Ahaz had taken from the temple during his reign (v. 19). They had purified them and put them back in front of the altar.

Application

For me to be used of the Lord I must first confess my sin and make sure my life is clean and pure. Then I can begin to help others get right with the Lord. I am so thankful for the promise of I John 1:9 that when I confess, He forgives.