2 Chronicles 29 · Verse 5

2 Chronicles 29:5

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.
2 Chronicles 29:5, King James Version

2 Chronicles 29:5 in other translations

BSB“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.
WEBand said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.
ASVand 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.
YLTAnd he saith to them, ‘Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary,
DARBYand he said to them, Hear me, ye Levites: hallow yourselves now, and hallow the house of Jehovah the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the sanctuary.
BBEAnd said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.
WebsterAnd said to 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.

What does 2 Chronicles 29:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 29:4-5

4-5. the east street--the court of the priests, which fronted the eastern gate of the temple. Assembling the priests and Levites there, he enjoined them to set about the immediate purification of the temple. It does not appear that the order referred to the removal of idols, for objects of idolatrous homage could scarcely have been put there, seeing the doors had been shut up [2Ch 29:3]; but in its forsaken and…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 29:1-19

When Hezekiah came to the crown, he applied at once to work reform. Those who begin with God, begin at the right end of their work, and it will prosper accordingly. Those that turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. There are still such neglects, if the word be not duly read and opened, for that was signified by the lighting the lamps, and also if prayers and praise be not…

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2 Chronicles 29:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
לָהֶ֖םla.Hemto them
שְׁמָע֣וּנִיshe.ma.'U.nilisten to meH8085
הַלְוִיִּ֑םhal.vi.YimO LevitesH3881
עַתָּ֣ה'a.TahnowH6258
הִֽתְקַדְּשׁ֗וּhit.ka.de.Shuconsecrate yourselvesH6942
וְקַדְּשׁוּ֙ve.ka.de.Shuand consecrateH6942
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בֵּ֤יתbeit[the] house ofH1004
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵ֣י'e.lo.Hei[the] God ofH430
אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֔ם'a.vo.tei.Khemancestors yourH1
וְהוֹצִ֥יאוּve.ho.Tzi.'uand bring outH3318
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַנִּדָּ֖הha.ni.Dahthe impurityH5079
מִן\־min-fromH4480
הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ\׃ha.Ko.deshthe holy placeH6944

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 29:5

  • 2 Chronicles 35:6

    So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

    Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

  • Ezekiel 8:9-18

    And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth. …

  • 2 Chronicles 34:3-8

    For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. …

  • 1 Chronicles 15:12

    And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:15-16

    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. 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.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:1

    Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:34

    But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • Matthew 21:12-13

    And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

  • Exodus 19:15

    And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

  • Ezekiel 8:3

    And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

  • Ezekiel 36:25

    Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sanctify now.
35:6; Ex 19:10,15; 1Ch 15:12
sanctify the house.
16; 34:3-8; Eze 36:25; Mt 21:12,13; 1Co 3:16,17; 2Co 6:16; 7:1
Eph 5:26,27
carry forth.
Eze 8:3,9-18

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 29:4

    And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

  • 2 Chronicles 29:5

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:6

    For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.

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2 Chronicles 29:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y díjoles: Oidme, Levitas, y santificaos ahora, y santificaréis la casa de Jehová el Dios de vuestros padres, y sacaréis del santuario la inmundicia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et leur dit: Écoutez-moi, Lévites! Maintenant, sanctifiez-vous, et sanctifiez la maison de l’ Éternel, le Dieu de vos pères, et jetez la souillure hors du sanctuaire.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und er sprach zu ihnen: Höret mich, ihr Leviten! Heiliget euch nun, und heiliget das Haus Jehovas, des Gottes eurer Väter, und bringet die Unreinigkeit aus dem Heiligtum hinaus.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Dixitque ad eos: Audite me, Levitæ, et sanctificamini: mundate domum Domini Dei patrum vestrorum, et auferte omnem immunditiam de sanctuario.