2 Chronicles 29:15

15 These men gathered their relatives, made themselves holy, and went in to purify the LORD's temple by obeying the king's command as the LORD had told him.

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 from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeuel; from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;

14 from the descendants of Heman: Jehuel and Shimei; and from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel.

15 These men gathered their relatives, made themselves holy, and went in to purify the LORD's temple by obeying the king's command as the LORD had told him.

16 The priests went in to purify the inner portion of the LORD's temple. They brought out to the courtyard of the LORD's temple all the impurities they discovered inside. Then the Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley.

17 They began to make things holy on the first day of the first month. On the eighth day of the month they reached the LORD's entrance hall. They made holy the LORD's temple for eight days, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.