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2 Chronicles 29:16

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So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the priests went in unto the inner part of the house of Jehovah, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Jehovah into the court of the house of Jehovah. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.

KJV

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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This verse in 2 Chronicles 29

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

And the priests went - The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labor 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.

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 the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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."
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.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

And the priests came within for the Levites may not enter within.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 29:16:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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

23 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיָּבֹ֣אוּand they went

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • הַ֠כֹּהֲנִיםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • לִפְנִ֣ימָהto within

    lifnimahH6441 →13 times

  • בֵית־[the] house of

    veit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָה֮Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לְטַהֵר֒to cleanse [it]

    letaherH2891 →94 times

  • וַיּוֹצִ֗יאוּand they brought out

    vaiyotziuH3318 →1067 times

  • אֵ֤ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַטֻּמְאָה֙the uncleanness

    hatumahH2932 →

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • מָֽצְאוּ֙they found

    matzeuH4672 →455 times

  • בְּהֵיכַ֣לin [the] temple of

    beheikhalH1964 →80 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לַחֲצַ֖רto [the] court of

    lachatzarH2691 →191 times

  • בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַֽיְקַבְּלוּ֙and they received [it]

    vaykabeluH6901 →

  • הַלְוִיִּ֔םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • לְהוֹצִ֥יאto bring [it] out

    lehotzi'H3318 →1067 times

  • לְנַֽחַל־to [the] wadi of

    lenachal-H5158 →141 times

  • קִדְר֖וֹןKidron

    kidronH6939 →11 times

  • חֽוּצָה׃[the] outside towards

    chutzahH2351 →164 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

15 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 15:16King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.3 works2 Chronicles 30:14They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.3 works2 Chronicles 5:7Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.2 worksEzekiel 36:29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.2 works2 Chronicles 3:8Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.2 worksExodus 26:33–34And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.2 works
The other 9 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Kings 23:4–6Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.2 worksHebrews 9:23–24So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.2 works1 Kings 6:19–20Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.2 worksMatthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.2 worksJohn 18:1After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.2 works2 Samuel 15:23Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.2 worksHebrews 9:2–8A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.2 worksMatthew 21:12–13Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.2 works1 Kings 2:37On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 3:8

    Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 26:33

      And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 5:7

    Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 132:8

      Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.

    • Exodus 37:6–9

      He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

    • 1 Kings 6:23–28

      In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 15:16

    King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 15:13–24

      He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 36:29

    I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.

    it leads to

    • John 1:7–9

      He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.

    • Matthew 1:21

      She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

    • Hosea 2:21–23

      “On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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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.

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