And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites: sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth [a]the filthiness out of the Sanctuary.

For our fathers have trespassed and done evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and turned away their faces from the Tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.

They have also shut the doors of the porch, and quenched the lamps, and have neither burnt incense, nor offered burnt offerings in the Sanctuary unto the God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:5 Meaning, all the idols, altars, groves and whatsoever was occupied in their service, and wherewith the Temple was polluted.

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