2 Chronicles 29:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the holy place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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 the filthiness out of the holy place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And said to them, Levites, hear me! Now sanctify (purify and make free from sin) yourselves and the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

Common English Bible

⁵ “Listen to me, you Levites!” he said. “Make yourselves holy so you can make holy the temple of the LORD God of your ancestors by removing from the sanctuary any impure thing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And he said to them: "Listen to me, O Levites, and be sanctified. Cleanse the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away every uncleanness from the sanctuary.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified: purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers: and take away all filth out of the sanctuary.

2 Chronicles 29:5 Cross References

1 Chronicles 15:12

and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

2 Chronicles 29:34

But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had sanctified themselves their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in sanctifying themselves.

2 Chronicles 29:4

He brought in the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the square on the east,

2 Chronicles 35:6

And kill the passover lamb, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of the Lord by Moses.”

Nehemiah 12:30

And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.

Nehemiah 13:9

Then I gave orders and they cleansed the chambers; and I brought back thither the vessels of the house of God, with the cereal offering and the frankincense.

Psalm 93:5

Thy decrees are very sure; holiness befits thy house, O Lord, for evermore.

Exodus 19:10

And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Be ready by the third day; do not go near a woman.”

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Ezekiel 8:3

He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

Ezekiel 8:6

And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”

Joel 2:16

gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.