* they brought.
The law only required one bullock for the sins of the high
priest, another for the sins of the people, and one he-goat
for the sins of the prince: but Hezekiah offered many more,
and the reason appears sufficiently evident: the law only
speaks of the sins of ignorance, but here there were sins of
every dye, idolatry, apostasy from the Divine worship,
profanation of the temple, etc., etc. The sin offerings, we
are informed, were offered, first, for the Kingdom, for the
transgressions of the king and his family; secondly, for the
sanctuary, which had been defiled and polluted; and for the
priests, who had been profane, negligent, and unholy; and
finally, for Judah, for the whole mass of the people, who had
been led away into every kind of abomination by the above
examples.
* seven.
Nu 23:1,14,29 1Ch 15:26 Ezr 8:35 Job 42:8 Eze 45:23
* a sin offering.
Le 4:3-14 Nu 15:22-24 2Co 5:21
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