2 Chronicles 29:17

Easy To Read Version

On the first day of the first month, the Levites began to make themselves ready for holy service. On the eighth day of the month, the Levites came to the porch of the Lord’s temple. For eight more days they cleaned the Lord’s temple to make it ready for holy use. They finished on the 16th day of the first month.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:3

The porch of the temple was 20 cubits long and 10 cubits [34] wide. The porch ran along the front of the main part of the temple itself. Its length was equal to the width of the temple.

1 Chronicles 28:11

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for building the temple. {\cf2\super [305]} Those plans were also for the porch around the temple, and for its buildings, its storerooms, its upper rooms, its inside rooms, and for the place for the mercy seat. {\cf2\super [306]}

2 Chronicles 29:18

Then they went to King Hezekiah. They said to him, “King Hezekiah, we cleaned all the Lord’s temple {\cf2\super [344]} and the altar {\cf2\super [345]} for burning offerings and all the things in the temple. We cleaned the table for the rows of bread with all the things used for that table.

2 Chronicles 29:3

Hezekiah fixed the doors of the Lord’s temple {\cf2\super [335]} and made them strong. Hezekiah opened the temple again. He did this in the first month of the first year after he became king.

2 Chronicles 29:7

They shut the doors of the porch of the temple and let the fire go out in the lamps. They stopped burning incense {\cf2\super [337]} and offering burnt offerings {\cf2\super [338]} in the Holy Place {\cf2\super [339]} to the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 3:4

The porch in front of the temple was 20 cubits {\cf2\super [28]} long and 20 cubits high. {\cf2\super [29]} Solomon covered the inside of the porch with pure gold.

2 Chronicles 30:3

They could not celebrate the Passover Festival at the regular time. Why? Because not enough priests had made themselves ready for holy service. And another reason is the people had not gathered in Jerusalem.