2 Chronicles 29:4
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2 Chr 29:4
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He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the square on the east.
2 Chr 29:5
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Then he said to them, "Listen to me, O Levites. Consecrate yourselves now, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry the uncleanness out from the holy place.
2 Chr 29:6
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~"For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and have turned {their} backs.
2 Chr 29:7
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~"They have also shut the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
2 Chr 29:8
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~"Therefore the wrath of the LORD was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
2 Chr 29:9
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~"For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
2 Chr 29:10
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~"Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.
2 Chr 29:11
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~"My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to minister to Him, and to be His ministers and burn incense."
2 Chr 29:12
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Then the Levites arose: Mahath, the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, from the sons of the Kohathites; and from the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and from the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah;
2 Chr 29:13
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and from the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and from the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
2 Chr 29:14
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and from the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and from the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
2 Chr 29:15
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They assembled their brothers, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD.
2 Chr 29:16
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So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse {it,} and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of the LORD they brought out to the court of the house of the LORD. Then the Levites received {it} to carry out to the Kidron valley.
2 Chr 29:17
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Now they began the consecration on the first {day} of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they entered the porch of the LORD. Then they consecrated the house of the LORD in eight days, and finished on the sixteenth day of the first month.
2 Chr 29:18
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Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, "We have cleansed the whole house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all of its utensils, and the table of showbread with all of its utensils.
2 Chr 29:19
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~"Moreover, all the utensils which King Ahaz had discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated; and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD."
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