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He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
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He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
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He brought in the Kohanim and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,
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and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
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For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.