2 Chronicles 29:5

New Century Version

Hezekiah said, “Listen to me, Levites. Make yourselves ready for the Lord’s service, and make holy the Temple of the Lord, the God of your ancestors. Remove from the Temple everything that makes it impure.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 15:12

David said to them, “You are the leaders of the families of Levi. You and the other Levites must give yourselves for service to the Lord. Bring up the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have made for it.

2 Chronicles 29:34

There were not enough priests to skin all the animals for the burnt offerings. So their relatives the Levites helped them until the work was finished and other priests could be made holy. The Levites had been more careful to make themselves holy for the Lord’s service than the priests.

2 Chronicles 29:4

Hezekiah brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the courtyard on the east side of the Temple.

2 Chronicles 35:6

Kill the Passover lambs, and make yourselves holy to the Lord. Prepare the lambs for your relatives, the people of Israel, as the Lord through Moses commanded us to do.”

Nehemiah 12:30

The priests and Levites made themselves pure, and they also made the people, the gates, and the wall of Jerusalem pure.

Nehemiah 13:9

I ordered the rooms to be purified, and I brought back the utensils for God’s Temple, the grain offerings, and the incense.

Psalm 93:5

Lord, your laws will stand forever. Your Temple will be holy forevermore.

Exodus 19:10

The Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and have them spend today and tomorrow preparing themselves. They must wash their clothes

Exodus 19:15

Then Moses said to the people, “Be ready in three days. Do not have sexual relations during this time.”

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and your idols.

Ezekiel 8:3

It stretched out the shape of a hand and caught me by the hair on my head. The Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the sky. He took me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple. In the courtyard was the idol that caused God to be jealous.

Ezekiel 8:6

He said to me, “Human, do you see what they are doing? Do you see how many hateful things the people of Israel are doing here that drive me far away from my Temple? But you will see things more hateful than these.”

Joel 2:16

Bring the people together and make the meeting holy for the Lord. Bring together the elders, as well as the children, and even babies that still feed at their mothers’ breasts. The bridegroom should come from his room, the bride from her bedroom.

2 Corinthians 6:16

The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises from God, so we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes body or soul unclean. We should try to become holy in the way we live, because we respect God.