John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 29:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, etc.] So that there was no entering into the temple, (<142824>2 Chronicles 28:24) and put out the lamps; for the priests not being able to go in morning and evening to light them, and dress them, they in course went out; the Jews say f123, that on the eighteenth of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, the western lamp was extinct in the days of Ahaz, for which a fast was kept on that day: and have not burnt incense, nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel; but had done these in the high places to idols, (<142803>2 Chronicles 28:3,4,24,25).

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