2 Chronicles 29:7 → Leviticus 24:1

Leviticus 24:1-4 commands the perpetual maintenance of the lampstand (מְנוֹרָה, menorah) with pure olive oil, kept burning "from evening to morning continually" as a "permanent statute." 2 Chronicles 29:7 records Hezekiah's indictment of his predecessors: "They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps (נֵרוֹת, nerot)." The Chronicler presents the extinguishing of the lamps as a specific violation of the Levitical regulation — the perpetual light that Leviticus 24 mandated was deliberately ended by unfaithful kings. Hezekiah's temple reform thus constitutes a restoration of the Levitical sanctuary services that had been abandoned, with the relighting of the lamps carrying symbolic weight as a return to Torah obedience.