2 Chronicles 29:34 meaning and explanation

However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.

2 Chronicles 29:34, Berean Standard Bible

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Hezekiah has just reopened the temple his father Ahaz had closed, and the whole assembly has brought far more offerings than expected. The Law assigned skinning and preparing sacrifices to the priests, the descendants of Aaron, but too few of them had finished consecrating themselves to handle the volume.

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