2 Chronicles 29:15

15 When they had assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves, they went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the command of the king by the words of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:15 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 29:15

And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves,
&c.] As they were bid, see ( 2 Chronicles 29:5 ) , and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the word of the
Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord;
for this, which the king commanded, was by the Lord, and they came to do this work, in obedience to both.

2 Chronicles 29:15 In-Context

13 Shimri and Jeuel from the Elizaphanites; Zechariah and Mattaniah from the Asaphites;

14 Jehiel and Shimei from the Hemanites; and Shemaiah and Uzziel from the Jeduthunites.

15 When they had assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves, they went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the command of the king by the words of the LORD.

16 So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

17 They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.