2 Chronicles 29:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

THE KING CHARGES THE LÉVITES, AND THEY CLEANSE THE HOUSE OF GOD
(2 Chronicles 29:3-19).

(3) In the first monthi.e., in the month Nisan, the first month of the sacred year; not in the first month of his reign. (Comp. 2 Chronicles 29:17 and 2 Chronicles 30:23.)

Opened the doors. — Which his father had closed (chap. 28:24).

And repaired them. — By overlaying them with metal — bronze or gold-leaf (2 Kings 18:16).

2 Chronicles 29:3

3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.