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Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnedincense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
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Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble*, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to standbefore him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
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Then the Levitesarose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari,Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites;Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
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And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
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And the priestswent into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levitestook it, to carry it outabroad into the brookKidron.
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Now they began on the first day of the firstmonth to sanctify, and on the eighthday of the monthcame they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eightdays; and in the sixteenthday of the firstmonth they made an end.