2 Chronicles 29:15
in 2 Chronicles 29When they had assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves, they went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the command of the king by the words of the LORD.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah.
KJV
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 29
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
By the words of the Lord - Rather, as suggested in the margin, “According to the commandment of the king in the business (or matters) of the Lord.”
This site's exposition
to cleanse the house of the Lord
on 2 Chronicles 29:15-17
The date stamps are exact: they begin the first day of the first month and finish the sixteenth, the priests reaching the porch by day eight and the whole house by day sixteen. That leaves them two days past Nisan fourteen, the appointed day of Passover, the gap chapter 30 resolves by keeping the feast in the second month under the provision of Num 9:10-11. Cleansing runs inside out exactly as commanded, priests carrying uncleanness from the inner house to the court and Levites carrying it from the court out to the brook Kidron, a chain of hands matching each order's proper access to the sanctuary.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves,.... As they were bid, see 2Ch 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.
A solemn revival of God's ordinances that had been neglected, in which atonement was made for the sins of the last reign, and the wheels were set a-going again, to the great satisfaction of king and people,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
This took eight days more. At the end of this period they repaired to the palace and announced that not only had the whole of the sacred edifice, within and without, undergone a thorough purification, but all the vessels which the late king had taken away and applied to a common use in his palace, had been restored, "and sanctified."
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And the priests came within for the Levites may not enter within.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּֽאַסְפ֤וּ | vaiyaasfu | and they gathered | H622 → | 200 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲחֵיהֶם֙ | ʾacheihem | relatives their | H251 → | 630 times |
| וַיִּֽתְקַדְּשׁ֔וּ | vaiyitkadeshu | and they consecrated themselves | H6942 → | 171 times |
| וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ | vaiyavou | and they went | H935 → | 2568 times |
| כְמִצְוַת־ | khemitzvat- | according to [the] command of | H4687 → | 181 times |
| הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| בְּדִבְרֵ֣י | bedivrei | by [the] words of | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| לְטַהֵ֖ר | letaher | to cleanse | H2891 → | 94 times |
| בֵּ֥ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וַיַּֽאַסְפ֤וּand they gathered
vaiyaasfuH622 →200 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
אֲחֵיהֶם֙relatives their
ʾacheihemH251 →630 times
וַיִּֽתְקַדְּשׁ֔וּand they consecrated themselves
vaiyitkadeshuH6942 →171 times
וַיָּבֹ֥אוּand they went
vaiyavouH935 →2568 times
כְמִצְוַת־according to [the] command of
khemitzvat-H4687 →181 times
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
בְּדִבְרֵ֣יby [the] words of
bedivreiH1697 →1440 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
לְטַהֵ֖רto cleanse
letaherH2891 →94 times
בֵּ֥ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Chronicles 30:12Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- Psalms 110:3
Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
- Jeremiah 24:7
I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their…
- Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13–14
But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by…
- Jeremiah 32:39
Through
2 Chronicles 29:5“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 35:6
Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your fellow countrymen to carry out the word of the LORD given by Moses.”
- 1 Corinthians 3:16–17
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- 2 Chronicles 35:6
Through
1 Chronicles 23:28but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 35:11–14
And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.
- 2 Chronicles 35:11–14
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.