The priests went into the inner part of Yahweh’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in Yahweh’s temple into the court of Yahweh’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron.
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The priests went into the inner part of Yahweh’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in Yahweh’s temple into the court of Yahweh’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron.
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And the priests went 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 Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
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And the priests went in unto 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 Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 29:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
- Exodus 26:33-34 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you. You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
- 2 Samuel 15:23 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
- 1 Kings 6:19-20 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there. Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.
- 2 Kings 23:4-6 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
- 2 Chronicles 3:8 He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
- 2 Chronicles 5:7 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
- Ezekiel 36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
- Matthew 21:12-13 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
- Matthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
- John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
- Hebrews 9:2-8 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail. Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.
- Hebrews 9:23-24 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain From the pollutions and filth that Ahaz had brought…
From the pollutions and filth that Ahaz had brought in.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 29:16 And the priests went into the inner…
2Ch 29:16 And the priests went 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 Levites took [it], to carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron.
Ver. 16. Into the brook Kidron.] Or, Town ditch.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The inner part of the house of the Lord;…
The inner part of the house of the Lord; not the holy of holies, into which only the high priest might enter, and that but once in a year; but the holy place.
Into the court, to wit, the priests’ court, called here the court, by way of eminency.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then they went in to Hezekiah the king,.... In…
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king,.... In his palace:
and said, we have cleansed all the house of the Lord; the several parts of it, and apartments belonging to it:
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and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof; which they cleansed and scoured, and put in their proper place, and which Ahaz had removed:
and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof; which had lain neglected and profaned, but were now put in order.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. And the priests went] The priests and…
Verse 16. And the priests went] The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labour they spent eight days. Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but as the Levites had no right to enter the temple, the priests carried all the dirt and rubbish to the porch, whence they were collected by the Levites, carried away, and cast into the brook Kidron; in this work eight days more were occupied, and thus the temple was purified in sixteen days.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The “inner part” means here, not the holy of…
The “inner part” means here, not the holy of holies in particular, but the interior generally. The priests alone might enter the temple building. The Levites might penetrate no further than the inner court.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Cedron, as Josias did with the idolatrous altars, 4…
Cedron, as Josias did with the idolatrous altars, 4 K. xxiii. 12. The priests brought what was unclean from the inner temple into the porch. H. --- This labour lasted eight days, as the cleansing of the porches had done. C. D.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Brought out all the uncleanness — The Hebrew…
16. Brought out all the uncleanness — The Hebrew word rendered uncleanness, here, is different from that rendered filthiness in 2Ch_29:5, and seems to include other things besides idolatrous objects. But in what all this uncleanness and filthiness consisted we are not told.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. the priests] The work was so divided between…
16. the priests] The work was so divided between priests and Levites that only the priests went into the house.
into the inner part of the house] Render, within the house. The reference is not to the Holy of Holies specially, but to the whole interior of the house.
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uncleanness] Cp. 2Ch_29:5; Isa_30:22.
into the brook] R.V. to the brook. The brook Kidron is the deep valley on the east of Jerusalem separating it from the Mount of Olives; 2Sa_15:23; Joh_18:1.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) The priests went into the inner part.—Eze_41:3. The…
(16) The priests went into the inner part.—Eze_41:3. The interior of the Temple proper is meant, which the Levites might not enter, but only the priests, according to the legal rule.
Brought out all the uncleanness.—Tum’ah (Lev_5:3; Jdg_13:7). See the Note on the synonymous expression niddah (2Ch_29:5).
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Took.—Received it; from the hands of the priests (qibb ̓çl a late word).
Abroad.—Outside (of the Temple precincts).
Into the brook Kidron.—Rather, the Wady of Kidron (2Ki_23:12; 2Ch_15:16; 2Ch_30:14).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The inner part. That is to say, only the…
The inner part. That is to say, only the priests were warranted to enter inside the temple, while the Levites" sphere of work and service lay in the courts and round about the temple. Kidron, as we have seen, (note 2Ch_27:3) lay on the east of the temple mount.
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