2 Chronicles 29:5
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and said: “Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the LORD, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary.
Read 2 Chronicles 29:5 Using Other Translations
And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
and said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.
He said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Purify yourselves, and purify the Temple of the LORD, the God of your ancestors. Remove all the defiled things from the sanctuary.
What does 2 Chronicles 29:5 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
2 Chronicles
29:5
And said unto them, hear me, ye Levites; sanctify
yourselves,
&c.] By washing their bodies and their garments, that no
pollution might attend them in their service, see ( Isaiah 52:11
)
and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your
fathers;
by carrying out of it all manner of uncleanness, as they did, (
2
Chronicles 29:16 ) ,
and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy
place;
or the abomination; the altar, like that at Damascus, which Ahaz,
removing the altar of the Lord, had placed in the court of the
priests; or, as Kimchi thinks, an idol, which he had set upon
that altar.
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