2 Chronicles 29:15

15 and they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and they went in according to the command of the king because of the words of Yahweh, to purify the house of Yahweh.

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

14 and from the descendants of Heman: Jeiel and Shimei; and from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel--

15 and they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and they went in according to the command of the king because of the words of Yahweh, to purify the house of Yahweh.

16 And the priests went into the inner [part] of the house of Yahweh to purify [it]. And they brought out all the impurity that they found in the temple of Yahweh [out] to the courtyard of the house of Yahweh. And the Levites took [them] to bring [them] outside to the Wadi Kidron.

17 And they began to sanctify themselves on the first day of the first month. And on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of Yahweh. And they sanctified the house of Yahweh for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.