II Chronicles 29 The Levites Cleanse the Temple

 II Chronicles 29

The Levites Cleanse the Temple

12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amassai, 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 Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Edom the son of Joah;

13 And of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

14 And of the sons of Heman, Jeiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

15 And they gathered their brethren together, and sanctified themselves, and came according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD, to purify the house of the LORD.

16 Then the priests went into the house of the Lord to purify, and they brought out into the court of the house of the Lord all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the Lord. The Levites took them and carried them out to the brook Kidron. 

17 So they began to sanctify on the first day of the first month. On the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the Lord and sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days. On the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. 

18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, "We have cleansed the entire house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels, and the table of shewbread and all its vessels. 

19 And all the vessels that King Ahaz threw out in his reign in his transgression we have prepared and sanctified. And behold, they are before the altar of the Lord."