2 Chronicles 29:3
Good News Translation
In the first month of the year after Hezekiah became king, he reopened the gates of the Temple and had them repaired.

New Revised Standard Version
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.

Contemporary English Version
In the first month of the first year of Hezekiah's rule, he unlocked the doors to the LORD's temple and had them repaired.

New American Bible
In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the LORD’s house and repaired them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

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2 Chronicles 34:3 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.

Psalm 101:3 I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Matthew 6:33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Galatians 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.

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2 Chronicles 29:7 They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 28:24 Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of God, and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 16:14-18 But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from the face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the place of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar towards the north. . . .

Context
Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
2And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. 3In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.4And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:24
Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of God, and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 29:4
And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street.

2 Chronicles 29:7
They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:17
And they began to cleanse on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch of the temple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun.

2 Chronicles 29:2
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